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This second bubble was made possible by better web programming tools and languages -- everyone becomes a PHP/MySQL programmer nowadays. These tools weren't that
by mojuba 20y ago
This second bubble was made possible by better web programming tools and languages -- everyone becomes a PHP/MySQL programmer nowadays. These tools weren't that affordable in 1990's.
Technology made many things easier, like copying books and music, automating everyone's tasks, etc. But it also made programming itself a lot easier. Programming improves everyone's lives and it improves itself too. So bubbles are inevitable (as well as inevitable are some oscillations).
- omouse 20y agoeveryone becomes a PHP/MySQL programmer nowadays. These tools weren't that affordable in 1990's. They're free!!! And they're widely available now which is why everyone becomes a PHP/MySQL programmer.
- mojuba 20y agoSorry, I didn't mean "affordable" exactly in terms of money. The tools became much easier to use, which means a better learning curve, which means saving programmer's time, which means money.
- lupin_sansei 20y agoBack in 1997 when I started web programming perl was free, then around 1998 mysql and PHP started being included in cheap hosting accounts.