Sometimes I miss the 'good old days' of late 1990s/early 2000s internet.

Like the hosting company who wanted an intern over the summer and gave me the role because they knew me from hanging out on IRC. No checks, no references, just a 5 minute interview, then 'here's root access, your first job is to write an awk script to work out which customers are still using our old NS records'.

Or the American who sent me lemonade powder and peanut butter in the post because I hadn't experienced them.