Um, i think we missed each other point(s) here. I was commenting on "updating" earlier posts.

If someone isn’t clever enough to realize that advice from 2005 is all but guaranteed to be out of date in the tech world

I do not think that is as plain as you put it here. Much of the old information is as valid now as it was then. But yes, looking at the old while ignoring the more current, would be an exercise in silliness.