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I won’t try to give a list of examples of how historical knowledge is useful for a developer, but just compare this statement with different fields:

An architect will learn about the history of hundreds of buildings at school.

A product designer like a designer designing chairs, knows about the history of chairs, has dozens of example of chairs in their mind.

That developers strive to be so a-historical is a sad state of affairs. It makes the whole field naive and stuck in a perpetual present.

But digital art and web design are in the same mode too, so it’s something about the whole digital fields.

The only exception is game design, where it’s considered important and valued to learn about old games, play them, understand how they worked.




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