Eventually, you'll come to realize that not only are you late to the game, but you're also early to the game, and even on time, depending upon the technology.

Eventually, you'll come to realize that not only are you late to the game, but you're also early to the game, and even on time, depending upon the technology. When I started in the web hosting business, Linux had just crossed the 1.0 milestone, and the CGI spec was the sample code (in C and Perl) from NCSA, and Apache had just been formed. In that time, I've seen Perl wax and wane, MetaHTML stillborn (back sometime in the 90s I was asked to pick between MetaHTML and something called PHP; I picked MetaHTML. You can't always pick winners), PHP, Python and Ruby on the rise. Personally, I tend to avoid the hype (I'm still using code I wrote a decade ago on my personal website) and go for what interests me, with the occasional shove in a particular direction when my boss requires it. I've been a (paid) programmer since 1990 and have seen quite a few waves of technology come and go, and I'm still employed. I've even heard that Cobol programmers still exist.