The boom of the ’90s made those working in technology feel like they were 18 again and behind the wheel of a muscle car: invincible. But the days when a college grad with a computer science degree could start work with $75,000 a year have disappeared. Tech personnel have even had to suffer through an indignity they never imagined-layoffs.

Techies.com, an e-recruiting Web site recently surveyed 700 out-of-work technology people and found some sobering news-the demand just isn’t there today. Of the 700 people interviewed for the July study, 76 percent had been out of work for at least six months. “Most of them were with companies that either ran out of money or had to make major cutbacks,” said Cynthia Morgan, vice president and executive producer of the site.

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