> Based on my personal experience in the late 2000s I think this time period is a slight outlier - for our parents the dotcom bust was recent memory and a lot

> Based on my personal experience in the late 2000s I think this time period is a slight outlier - for our parents the dotcom bust was recent memory and a lot were discouraged from going into the field. Mostly only those who really wanted to, like for the logic puzzles you suggest, went ahead anyway.