FORTRAN, COBOL and BASIC all used all caps in the 70s when I started to learn programming. People thought I was a nutcase for abandoning cursive in high school!

And don't get me started on punch card programming in college in 1980 :)

Despite ~60 years of updates, the fortran language still isn't case sensitive.

Why were people still using punchcards in the 80s?

Alas, at Princeton University 1980 that was the only way to submit programs. I was doing tech support for professors as part of my work-study package and a couple hours a week on a green-bar paper teletype sorta like this was a huge benefit: https://www.howtogeek.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/teletyp...

To make confetti out of the chads for parades. ;)