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It absolutely attracted different people. The inflows are much larger and not the same. For example EE used to be prestige and CS was the backup. And that woul
by grandempire 2y ago
It absolutely attracted different people. The inflows are much larger and not the same.
For example EE used to be prestige and CS was the backup. And that would never compare to finance or law.
- yubblegum 2y agoYes but imo this change happened no later than late 90s. I distinctly remember how suddenly it became cool to be a programmer and the 'new type' was already making changes by early '00s. And yes, the $s attracted smart people who did not embody the old hacker ethos. These are the new bloods that gifted us with surveillance tech, btw.
- chasd00 2y ago“Call 1-800 beageek”. Remember that commercial? That was around the time software dev went mainstream, late 90s iirc.
- grandempire 2y agoMainstream is different than upper middle class and ambitious.
- blendo 2y agoBack in the 90s, they were the “suits”. Andreessen, Scott McNealy, & Ellison were, to me, the ones that left a particularly bad taste.