That was pretty common in the '90s dot-com boom, quite easy to get a web-dev or Perl job out of high school (or even while still in high school). However the pe

That was pretty common in the '90s dot-com boom, quite easy to get a web-dev or Perl job out of high school (or even while still in high school). However the people who skipped college for those jobs were also (on average) the hardest hit in the downturn, so many went back to college in the early 2000s. Excluding those who cashed out, of course.