Its interesting that a history of doing hard things is less important than it once was at interview time. You still have to prove that you can do hard things.
The problem is, while I love my story of figuring out xmlhttprequest (before it was called ajax) in IE5 so I could rebuild our refresher frame to not refresh anymore because Windows had unexpectedly introduced a clicking sound for every page navigation and our application was now clicking every second driving our customers crazy, that situation will never come up again.
Every day, the specifics of tech experience matter less, and they reduce to "merely" signals of creativity, tenacity, etc.
