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Ep. 71: Harvard CS50's David Malan and Colton Ogden on Computer Science

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What Was Your Perception of the Dot Com Boom Years Like?

As a college student studying computer science, what was your perception of the dot com boom? Was it inspiring to be able to write all these programmes and create all these projects on the very computer that i'd had on my lap for like, the past year or more. I do think there was a non zero amount of get rich quick mentality among some students who had sort of flocked to the field because of just was happening in the tech world,. It seemed that anyone with an internet friendly idea was somehow getting rich quick off of it.

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