I can confirm that there were a big dot com death and hangover the first years of the millennium. Specifically, for Sweden. The rest of the Swedish economy was

I can confirm that there were a big dot com death and hangover the first years of the millennium. Specifically, for Sweden. The rest of the Swedish economy was quite OK. The takeaway lesson you should get kids, is that there is a boom/bust cycle for programmers/developers -- but it isn't necessarily in phase with the general economy. (Some corollaries about how to handle this were listed in the article.)