My C Instructor assigned us this in college in 2005, during a brief period where the dotcom bubble was still felt and the social network hadn't come out yet. At the time, there was a lot of talk about how programming was a dead in job in the the US and that all those jobs would just be outsourced, anyway.
I've thought about it a lot over the years, and especially came back to it last year with the rise of ChatGPT.
I've thought about it a lot over the years, and especially came back to it last year with the rise of ChatGPT.