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This comment is hilariously shortsighted. Ten years later: >> "Guys were being paid $100/hour to get CRUD working through a web framework." People weren't bei
by xophe 13y ago
This comment is hilariously shortsighted.
Ten years later:
>> "Guys were being paid $100/hour to get CRUD working through a web framework."
People weren't being paid to write HTML. They were being paid to publish information on the Internet for the first time ever. Like, before W3 schools and NodeJS. Like, back when you got your morning news from the paperboy.
If typesetters were paid a dime back in the 1700s, anyone who could design a webpage in the 90s was certainly worth their weight in gold.
And with time, one day your job will also be super unflattering to talk about.
- weeksie 13y agoThis comment is hilariously unaware of the actual history. Remember, I was around for the whole thing. Those guys writing HTML were writing static pages. Not guys that were writing Perl scripts, not guys that were deploying the websites—those guys were getting payed a LOT more. The pay was out of whack because public money was flowing into tech stocks and companies were doing IPOs with little to no due diligence. You had do-nothing companies with ten to fifty times the capital that a typical well-funded company would have today. Large companies were buying things left and right out of sheer terror and misunderstanding of what the web meant to commerce. So no. We're not in a bubble.