The internet reaches everywhere. If you can make an HTML page with an alert("hi there") script, congratulations, it can reach everyone in the world, you are now a world-class software engineer.
This bit from Venkatesh Rao's "The Office According to the Office" seems appropriate:
"Instead, Dwight found relief in the graded, performance-oriented worlds of school and varied medieval-guild-like worlds, such as farming, animal husbandry and karate. His attempts to understand the world of management, which is decidedly not a world of grades or guilds, are based entirely on peripheral guild-like elements. He is the only one excited about the Survivor-style successor-selection event Michael arranges (in the bus on the way over, he asks, “Will there be business parables?”)...In Dwight’s world, everything worth learning is teachable, and medals, certificates and formal membership in meritocratic institutions is evidence of success. Even where play behaviors are concerned, the Dwights of the world can more easily get lost in points-and-rules worlds...To Dwight, everything is a formal contest, and there are always authority figures who provide legitimacy and rankings."