I came in around 1998, so 6 years shy of the 30 year mark. I still got to play with a lot of stuff from that era though. Lots of Novell Netware installs. NE2000 NICs with BNC (and 50 Ohm terminators) proliferated. I became familiar with Btrieve. I had a few clients on homegrown DBIII/CA Clipper/Visual FoxPro. The big projects were moving one of them to a nice Borland Delphi 6 app that we were writing. There was VB everywhere. I really hated it but for getting a UI going quickly, it was hard to beat. If you found a control to use in your app, it was most likely something you had to pay for. (A calendar/date-picker for example) I used NNTP/Newsgroups to get answers to my programming questions about Delphi/Object Pascal. The idea of a dynamic web was only slightly on our radar. We tried Python, Perl DBI, and finally landed on PHP. That paid the bills for quite awhile. The internet was so fresh and new. There really was this idea that anything was possible and so much was yet to be discovered. I look at today and think, "are we really done? this is it??"