At the last StrangeLoop there was only one presenter from the pre-1980’s: Joe Armstrong. His talk? “We can do better” Everyone else’s talk? “How to optimize or manage this part of the stack to make your cat photo-sharing site work more efficiently today.
From a comment to http://gliderlabs.com/blog/2015/04/08/what-have-we-been-doing-for-40-years/