{"id":183,"date":"2024-10-04T02:24:55","date_gmt":"2024-10-04T09:24:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.markjwicker.com\/?p=183"},"modified":"2024-10-04T02:35:31","modified_gmt":"2024-10-04T09:35:31","slug":"history-boy-am-i-gettin-old","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.markjwicker.com\/?p=183","title":{"rendered":"History &#8211; Boy am I gettin&#8217; old!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"473\" height=\"323\" src=\"https:\/\/www.markjwicker.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/image-6.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-191\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.markjwicker.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/image-6.png 473w, https:\/\/www.markjwicker.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/image-6-300x205.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 473px) 100vw, 473px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"257\" height=\"208\" src=\"https:\/\/www.markjwicker.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/image.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-184\" style=\"width:287px;height:auto\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"226\" height=\"116\" src=\"https:\/\/www.markjwicker.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/image-3.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-187\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"326\" height=\"100\" src=\"https:\/\/www.markjwicker.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/image-5.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-189\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.markjwicker.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/image-5.png 326w, https:\/\/www.markjwicker.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/image-5-300x92.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 326px) 100vw, 326px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"390\" height=\"164\" src=\"https:\/\/www.markjwicker.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/image-4.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-188\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.markjwicker.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/image-4.png 390w, https:\/\/www.markjwicker.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/image-4-300x126.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 390px) 100vw, 390px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Back when I first started in this industry ~30 years ago, I started as a guy who built PC&#8217;s. I troubleshot the whole stack. I was responsible for the hardware, OS, networking and applications that ran on the machines that I built. It didn&#8217;t matter if they were acting as a &#8220;server&#8221; or as a &#8220;desktop&#8221;. They were all just PC&#8217;s to me, with various hardware configurations and OS&#8217;s. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I knew the whole stack. I also learned about assembly language and C\/C++ because that allowed me to be better at my job at that time. I used the &#8220;Alta Vista&#8221; search engine on a regular basis. There was no google. There was no yahoo. Apple was in the dumps. My first internet access was with Earthlink via the good ole winsock. Before that I was dialing BBS&#8217;s on my 9600 baud modem.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I remember installing one of the first distros of linux back in &#8217;98\/&#8217;99 using rawwrite to write a custom boot floppy in order to install it. I remember recompling the kernel to add additional hardware support as well as various other tuning that you could only do in the kernel. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I worked with DOS and Win 3.1 on a regular basis. Autoexec.bat and config.sys were my best friends. I worked with Novell 3.12, then 4.0, then 4.10, then 4.11 then 5.x. Yes, I was proud when I earned my Novell CNE 4.x cert. This, of course included Novell NDS which predated Microsoft&#8217;s AD by several years. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One day, I was handed a blue box that said &#8220;Cisco&#8221; on it because I was deemed to be the &#8220;hardware&#8221; guy and nobody else wanted to deal with it. That turned out to be a huge opportunity for me. That began my career as a &#8220;Network Engineer&#8221;&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Back when I first started in this industry ~30 years ago, I started as a guy who built PC&#8217;s. I troubleshot the whole stack. 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