There's a Windows Defender joke here somewhere...

Showing my age, but grew up using WordStar, so felt right at home with HTML tags

You forgot Chris Sawyer's feats of superheroism with Transport Tycoon and RollerCoaster Tycoon (completely in x86 assembly)

This is the level of discourse on Slashdot nowadays?
2^10 = 1024 (1 -> 2 -> 4 -> 8 ... 1024)

Also a 13 user. A big reason I'm keeping it is because of the physical SIM slot

Found Steve Ballmer's bitch!

Great, so they're making a solar-powered Reliant Robin?
Obligatory Mr Bean clip compilation : https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Fate of Atlantis was a banger of a game though!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

I wrote the chip implementation flow (front to back; synthesis, DFT, place-and-route, physical verification, etc.) that is used by my employer in Perl.

First iteration was circa ~2012, and it is still used everyday to this day (albeit with a LOT of updates over the years)

Screw Python and that whitespace nonsense

I'm sure there are some lucky folks, but I have a EE PhD, and even my starting base salary was ~$75K back in 2012. Doing much better now (total compensation is comparable to Microsoft's Level 65/66)

I had an EE undergrad 4.0, went straight to a EE PhD program, had plenty of journal papers, some patents, and a few research excellence awards. Still did not seem to help my job prospects much (back in ~2009-2010).

Probably did not help that my grad program was in RF / photonics, and I was looking for a chip design position, and that my alma mater was not in an ideal location (Iowa)

Finally got lucky and landed a year-long co-op that translated into a full-time position.

Yes. It is a decent chunk of my employer's (Dallas Semi / Maxim / Analog Devices) business, and likewise for companies like TI as well.
Have taped out many automotive applications ICs over the past decade, and most of them are 180nm or 90nm, with a family of SERDES chips on 55nm (moving to 16nm).

Yup, can confirm. Work for Dallas Semi, then Maxim, now ADI, without ever changing jobs :)

Pot. meet kettle https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

You might want to look into LPC bus - ISA is still alive and well!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...