I graduated in 2000, when microsoft was still king. There was no CS department then, though there was a CS major that you could get through the math department. Certainly there were no ties from campus to the startup world then. I loved the major- the intro book was the amazing Wizard book, Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs, and classes forced students to spend a lot of time in functional languages when most schools were pushing Java. This was prescient, and has very much worked out in my favor as a web dev working in ruby and coffeescript, functional style js, etc.
