[Rpm-maint] [rpm-software-management/rpm] 30 years of RPM (Discussion #4055)

[Panu Matilainen]

Today marks the 30 year anniversary of the C implementation of RPM that - the [the first commit](https://github.com/rpm-software-management/rpm/commit/7153c160969d70a083f791bf75f9b4d09d2f2a45) took place on November 27th 1995. 

Thinking back to those days is quite the time trip. There are a lot of people in the industry who are too young to remember, and trying to describe gets quickly into the territory of "nah man, he's pulling your leg" wide-eyed disbelief. Mobile phones existed, but they were rather bulky and few could afford them. Back then, people actually used them for *calling* other people, because that was pretty much the only thing they were good for. The Internet existed, but it wasn't really accessible to the population at large. I was lucky enough to get Internet access through the Helsinki University in 1994. They had a large array of dial-up access points, speed ranging from 9600bps to 14.000bps. Yes, that's *bytes* per second. But it gave you access to the whole world from your home! The campus had what at the time was an unimaginably fast 1.5Mbps T1 internet connection, IIRC. Windows 95 was released that year, but it didn't include a browser. Microsoft didn't think much of this Internet thing. Google search was still years in the future. Git was still ten years in the future, the RPM codebase was maintained in CVS.

If you ever thought various parts of RPM are pretty archaic, it's because it is! :laughing: 

The notion that the software you're working on is 30 years old is pretty wild. What was even wilder was realizing I've now been leading RPM development for more than a half of its existence. I still think of myself as the new maintainer :smile: 

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