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Re:Programming is a Terrible Job by droidist2 on Monday September 30, 2013 @12:00PM (#6470280)
"Sometimes I also think if it would be different if I was born several decades earlier. Back then, software engineering was in its infancy."

I think a lot of people can relate to this. I've often wished I could have finished college right before the .com boom, because it would have been so obvious to me that the internet was going to be big. Or would it have been? Hindsight is 20/20. If you had been born decades earlier you likely wouldn't even be into programming.

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Re:Programming is a Terrible Job by mediumdave on Monday September 30, 2013 @12:06PM (#6470331)
I don't think it was obvious at the time.

I can distinctly recall seeing Mosaic for the first time in 1993 when a fellow undergrad showed me his home page. My thoughts were essentially, "that's really stupid: it's just a bunch of boring information about you". Email and usenet seemed (to me) far more interesting and important.

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