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This 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 gu
by weeksie 13y ago
This 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.