1/4/2000 to 1/4/2025: the beginning
Today April, 1st 2025 marks the 25 years anniversary (quarter of a century sounds more impressive, doesn't it?) working professionally in ICT. My first working day as an ICT professional was on April 1st 2000. I had just graduated from uni (literally the week before) and one of the profs offered me a position at this company. The daily commute over bus and train was about one hour and a half, but I got to work on something really fancy: writing a c-shell script to daily sync data over ftp from an Oracle 7 database running on AIX (looked a lot like this one ) to a Bull mainframe. Development occurrent from a Windows NT4 workstation over telnet (I think). c-shell was a b1tḉh to work with and vim wasn't available (only vi IIRC) so my productivity wasn't great but I got it done and it ran until one of the two system (AIX) was eventually decommissioned. The AIX system might still be in the basement at my $OLDJOB. After that I moved on to more interesting e...