The recession happened because the Y2K bug was blown out of proportion. Tech jobs began to become more scarce in 2000. I don't need some damn graph to tell me that either or some expert to tell me. It's the way things happened. We got a huge tech boom in the 90's because of the Internet and then also the Y2K bug. We can point at a president and blame this one or that, but the reality was that the Y2K bug had a lot to do with it.