If you think your skills are not impressive or valuable, spend a few minutes imagining what it would be like to explain to someone how to write a program who knows nothing about computers. Your goal is for them to be as proficient as you are at your job.

How do you explain many topics without diving into computing history? UNIX?

Now they need to know what bits and bytes are. They'll need to know a LOT about TCP/IP. So many things they need to understand... atomic operations, memory, caches, cpu schedulers, memory allocators, how do databases work, all those bits and pieces of languages bumping around in your brain..

This shit is not trivial, you're just living in a bubble where it feels like everyone knows everything