alt Hacker NewsThis is great! As a kid I used to love HO scale model trains. There is an old movie of me on my birthday looking at my train set with eyes as big as plates. Fast forward, and I love networking and programming. I recognized that networking is just trains on Ethernet or Wifi, but now realize even the programming is just the same. Still making things go places and go around after all this time.
Go to the national train museum in Scranton, PA. I got to see (through critical thinking, not necessarily an outright display) how the modern career of software engineering has its roots in the telegraph lines, built along the rail lines, which eventually became the phone lines they used when timetables broke down. Follow that through to Bell Labs and C, etc....