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I was writing C and C++ mostly on the Microsoft stack from 1996-2008. I moved over to C# for Windows mobile devices by 2008-2011. I was using Sql Server and M

I was writing C and C++ mostly on the Microsoft stack from 1996-2008. I moved over to C# for Windows mobile devices by 2008-2011. I was using Sql Server and MySQL for a backend. I also did a little HTML/JavaScript and Perl. I graduated in 1996 and while I did take classes in FORTRAN and COBOL, I also took a class in C. I learned C++, Microsoft technologies (MFC, COM, etc$ VB6 and SQL on the job as well as HTML, JavaScript and Perl from the O’Reilly series of books by 2000.

ghaff 4y ago
Microsoft and related was probably more insulated from the carnage in the startup world than companies like Sun were. I was much more familiar with the Unix and related vendors at the time. But pretty much all the big computer and storage companies took massive hits. As did anyone who depended on them for revenue. It's absolutely not true that getting a job in tech, in general, wasn't a big deal in the early 2000s.