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> when it was seen as low-status profession in the late 80s. I don't remember this at all. I became a professional programmer in 1987, but perhaps it was the f
by PaulDavisThe1st 9mo ago
> when it was seen as low-status profession in the late 80s.
I don't remember this at all. I became a professional programmer in 1987, but perhaps it was the fact that I went directly to Unix, did not pass go, did not collect $200 and worked entirely on systems programming that helped skip any of the "low-status" of people doing RDBMS/forms work ?
- brandall10 9mo agoLow status is underselling it, but it certainly wasn't seen as an alternate path for those those considering medical/law/finance. I started my CS degree in '94, and my junior year was... weird. Suddenly a quarter of the faces in the lab were not the types you would ever expect to see there.
- ThrowawayR2 9mo agoAt least in pop culture in the late '80s and early '90s, being into computers was for asocial dorks and other unflattering nerd stereotypes. It was really the rise of the Internet and dotcom boom in the late 90s where [EDIT] owning a computer became unavoidable and the first of the software industry billionaires started seeping into the public consciousness that being a computer nerd became respectable.