As hard as it is to believe, there was a time when tech startups didn’t rule the world and it’s not as long ago as one might imagine. In fact, it was in 1994, a mere 20 years ago, that Walter Knapp rolled into town to get his Masters degree at CU Boulder. At the time, CU was one of two universities offering Masters degrees in programming (the other was MIT). So Knapp set up camp in Boulder and he’s been coming back ever since.