How was programming done 20 years ago?

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Nowadays we have a lot of programming aids that make it easier to work, including:

IDEs
Debuggers (line by line, breakpoints, etc)
Ant scripts, etc for compiling
Sites like Stackoverflow to help if you're too stuck on a bug.

20 years ago none of these things were around, which tools did people use to program and how did they make do without these tools? I'm interested in learning more about how programming was done back then.

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