Those Were The Days?! A Humorous Reflection on the Evolution of Software Engineering

Biology insists — and common sense says — that I've started to become that old fogey I used to laugh at in my younger days.

...THIRD YORKSHIREMAN:
Well, of course, we had it tough. We used to 'ave to get up out of shoebox at twelve o'clock at night and lick road clean wit' tongue. We had two bits of cold gravel, worked twenty-four hours a day at mill for sixpence every four years, and when we got home our Dad would slice us in two wit' bread knife.