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> would your career have been better or worse if you started getting familiar with Web Technologies in the early 2000s. Worse. The only time there was any real

> would your career have been better or worse if you started getting familiar with Web Technologies in the early 2000s. Worse. The only time there was any real money to be made with web technologies was prior to 2000. Plain old boring RPC, serving interesting data to lowly web developers, is where the money has been made since.

zoogeny 3y ago
Ok, to be fair I should have specified Internet Technologies rather than Web Technologies. And of course there are exceptions to all cases. But I would wager many people are like me, having made a comfortable income on the back of tcp/ip, dns, bgp, http, html, javascript et al. and it is hard for me to think of very many jobs in the TC range of FAANG companies where familiarity with those technologies is not a requirement. My point wasn't: you should have been a web developer in 2000. It was: in early 2000s the Internet was the most important advancement in tech and you should have been learning all about it. I am arguing that the same holds for the recent surge in AI technology.