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Will the heady dotcom days ever come back?

28 Oct 2002 to 3 Nov 2002 1999 was a fun time to be in the IT industry but it's mostly been Hell in a Handbasket since then. Will the days of ridiculous salaries and all-you-can-eat VC funding ever return?

Text entry answers for sorted by frequency of occurrance.

(1) code C++
(1) Communistic Propaganda Hype For Suckers
(1) directdraw
(1) dotcoms are history, but stupid people is here to stay and we will see some equally ridiculous craze emerging soon
(1) fun code
(1) Gee. When's the next Y2K coming?
(1) history repeats itself!
(1) i have c++ class with multiple inheritance and mfc give me mis-align accessed - what to do?
(1) I want a really high paying job where I don't have to do anything productive, just listen to MP3s and play games.
(1) It will come back with ideas we haven't dreamed of, but slower, more maturely. In 1990, in California, IT recruiters were saying they'd never seen the business that bad, but it came back. It will come back again.
(1) it's spelled 'animaly'
(1) it's spelled 'anomaly'
(1) Maybe if we can keep greedy coporates at bay
(1) networking
(1) No, but now people who work hard for a living get noticed. - I am not one :)
(1) not all IT people in 99 got big $$$
(1) oleacc.dll .net
(1) screenshot
(1) Somewhat. The bubble has burst but there is real value behind the hype.
(1) sperad
(1) test
(1) things go up and down - including the software industry
(1) Y2K = old news; whatever.com = old news; skyrocketing IPOs = old news; conclusion = The Party's Over.