Many of the people you meet in cloud services today at places like IBM, Dell, HP etc, are "old hippies" from that internet 1.0 era. Or even earlier from the Unix golden age of SG and Sun workstations. Mostly drifting into sales / pm roles. Although everyone remembers things differently. That institutional grounding of having to build internet services from fiber up really puts things in perspective for how easy it is to spin up a cluster ;)