Was there an exuberant growth period at 2000? That's about the time the tech bubble burst. I was starting college for CS at the time, and the consensus was th

Was there an exuberant growth period at 2000? That's about the time the tech bubble burst. I was starting college for CS at the time, and the consensus was that the outlook was pretty grim for tech jobs. Hiring seemed to be slow. Most claimed that we were in a recession. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Early_2000s_recession http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Early_2000s_recession (Wikipedia link, but its the first thing I dug up). I was lucky and the tech sector bounced back with gusto. But I suspect that, for a great many people, 2000-2010 was, in fact, a "lost decade."