For me it was mostly the same, but I do prefer simple minimalist systems for my own work.
I started in 1995 building an in-house Windows app for support staff at Iomega. I was a support person, and not a professional programmer, though I had been writing code for 10 years. The project was part of my launch into professional development.
It was a simple program not unlike the type I create today. It did one thing and it did it well. Support staff used it to log the root cause of incoming phone calls. It was used by about 200 employees and then we used the data to try to solve problems that were our top call generators.
Build systems for some languages are much more complex now and the Internet was just getting revved up back then. The best systems to work on seem to be the small simple ones, for me.
Edit: Learning from books instead of the Internet was a major difference. I had some wonderful coding books. A giant book store opened in the mall where I worked (just prior to Iomega) selling discount overstock books. I acquired several dozen computer books and I still have many of them.
I started in 1995 building an in-house Windows app for support staff at Iomega. I was a support person, and not a professional programmer, though I had been writing code for 10 years. The project was part of my launch into professional development.
It was a simple program not unlike the type I create today. It did one thing and it did it well. Support staff used it to log the root cause of incoming phone calls. It was used by about 200 employees and then we used the data to try to solve problems that were our top call generators.
Build systems for some languages are much more complex now and the Internet was just getting revved up back then. The best systems to work on seem to be the small simple ones, for me.
Edit: Learning from books instead of the Internet was a major difference. I had some wonderful coding books. A giant book store opened in the mall where I worked (just prior to Iomega) selling discount overstock books. I acquired several dozen computer books and I still have many of them.