Hovden Data Laboratory

In 1985, on a practice week in  some company downtown Bergen, I was lucky to get a course in Text editing software on Wang Computers.  Extensive use of function keys.  Very advanced functions, word-splitting, etc.  No font to select, very easy that way. In 1991, while visiting ABB in Heidelberg, Germany, as a student on a job acquired through IAESTE, I met my first text file format, the NROFF unix manual typesetting language. In 1992, I tried gopher hyperlink navigation. In 1993, the World Wide Web started for me, authoring web pages.  Setting up a web server. In 1997, while starting work on master thesis, I learned LaTeX.  \bold{text}.  Very powerful.  Even math equations.  Difficult with images.  Much more powerful than MS-Word.  Many templates available, for different end-results.  Each journal had their own format standards. Sometime 2000, a colleague looked into DocBook.  Also 2000s, I used Trac wiki and its syntax. S...

To read up on new technology can be compared to drugs.  One gets into a bubble and there are so many advantages and possibilities - and no visible disadvantages (but they surely exists). Ref. https://vlang.io/

Å se på ny teknologi kan sammenlignes med å ruse seg.  En kommer inn i en boble og det er så mange fordeler og muligheter – og ingen synlige ulemper (men de er der nok). Ref. https://vlang.io/