Comment by phendrenad2

I think what changed was education. Digging through the internet archive, as I do about 16 hours a day (as an out-of-work RoR dev with a nostalgia problem), I see many sites that look like they were started by highschoolers. And that reminded me that once upon a time, computer literacy in school meant "have the kids put some HTML and PHP on the school webserver". These days, they're probably learning how to crack leetcode or something that won't result in fun websites.