You feel old?

You are not.

You may just be one aged enough geek that have a good overview of the IT world. So you see that this are only trends and fashion tech.

Technologies qualified by some as "old" are in fact still the more robust and efficient ones for people mastering them.

Why do you think there still many people not using things like KDE or GNOME, using Emacs or vi instead of Eclipse? :-)

You're the one who knows how to make a quick'n dirty tunnel with ssh and ppp. They're the ones lost with the latest release of Checkpoint.