This sounds backwards. There was no way a teen in a few weeks could write a commercial useful application, nevermind distributing it or be taken seriously. No

This sounds backwards. There was no way a teen in a few weeks could write a commercial useful application, nevermind distributing it or be taken seriously. Now a days teens are. There are more teens programming than ever and creating more things. The pie is bigger. There might have been thousands or ten thousands of kids programming before now it's millions. Programs don't take millions of man hours. I can point to many useful one man open source projects. Selling business software is as hard as ever and it's hard to get buyin without connections. Teens are not making those connections neither were teens in the 80s or 90s. Back than ever computer type was a different platform. Your c64 basic program couldn't run on an Mac. Things were much harder to package for others to use. Programming has less benefits now for teens