Nope, not me just moaning, saw this on the bbc:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-35890450

Just reminded me how far computing has come in such a short time. I remember writing code on a bbc micro to control a circuit board traffic light. Dot matrix printers, although punch cards had just gone out when I was learning. Or the first internet we got, watch the boobs appear 1 pixel row at a time. And now I am typing this out on a phone which probably has more power than a spaceship from that era!

It's a good thing that today's programming languages actually do the work to translate whatever you're saying to the computer to machine code. Because typing 0s and 1s all day is not my cup of coffee.

You can emulate this by rolling up a page from Playboy magazine and slowly opening it like a scroll.
Well, you used to, but even Playboy magazine has changed and has no boobs now. Or comes in PDF format or something.
Even emulators have changed.

Even a greeting card with a small doodad playing Happy Birthday has more computing power than Apollo 11... Humbug! High res boobs like that were Science Fiction back in the day.

Surely now! A good page from a Playboy magazine has enough wear and tear to emulate lower resolution!

Yep, another thing that's come a fair ways, compilers and languages. Create most of an application just by drawing gui's. Incredible really.

Most of third world don't know about computers.

Ha, yes good idea! Maybe I should write an image scanline line program for old times sake.

They do, actually...

Yeah, I should say can't afford it :P

We became old. :P

Don't know their WHAT? You mean "porn"?

Yeah, kids of today just don't know how hard it was for us to acquire porn when we were kids. I still remember how I found some old porn magazines at our summer cottage (probably by some of my elder brothers, or the boyfriend of my big sister), and I tried to smuggle them back home... but my mother found them in my backpack, and threw them into a fireplace! Shit shit shit shit shit...

Today, I'd just head to some free porn site with my mobile phone or computer.

Realistically, you would be typing in hexadecimal if you ever had to work directly with machine code. It is much more convenient and readable to have 16 characters to work with rather than 2, and you only have to type 1/4 as many characters.

Fortunately, you don't generally have to do this often these days. (One example of a situation where you might need to do this is to modify a program whose source code is not available.)

OK, I get the reference to Iron Sky there!

In all seriousness, even though computers might be prevalent in society, while it might change the wording of the interview questions, it certainly doesn't change the validity of questioning one's knowledge on computing or computers in general.

Everything didn't become the "internet of things" overnight, but it's still a process going on of which people may choose to be "blissfully ignorant".

...and the first boob we got wasn't 1 pixel at a time. Back in the day when daisy-wheel printers generated type-writer like print-out, there were some rather good artists who could create some really good photos using only ASCII characters on a single font.

Sometimes you just had to take a step back to appreciate it.

Why, who's Thier Born?