There were different kinds of charts in those days. The most interesting were ones where they literally put a dot at the price and time on the chart for each transaction. The charts looked like little shotgun blasts going across the page.
If you mean looking at the past.. In one way we stand on their shoulders, In another... the world, the technology, everything is so different.
Last week the calls that were out 100 points were trading for $20, now trading as high as $100 (current $65). What is your point?