1985-1993: these two articles can explain it better than I can https://cs.stanford.edu/people/eroberts/CSCapacity/CSCapacity-History1980s.html https://cs.stanf

1985-1993: these two articles can explain it better than I can https://cs.stanford.edu/people/eroberts/CSCapacity/CSCapacity-History1980s.html https://cs.stanford.edu/people/eroberts/CSCapacity/CSCapacit... https://cseducators.stackexchange.com/questions/2942/why-did-interest-in-cs-majors-plummet-in-the-united-states-after-the-mid-80s https://cseducators.stackexchange.com/questions/2942/why-did... 2003-2010: dot-com bust and poor economic growth followed by Great Recession. Even though the dot-com crash happened in 1999-2001, the students who were in CS would pass out a few years later into an economy scarred by both the dot-com bust and 911. And then the Great Recession followed, of course.