Best i can tell, this is an artifact of history.<p>Early on, before the web, most was done in a terminal-like environment (most of the time input and output was text).<p>But then the web came, and as it was document oriented and had at least some emphasis on layout, the natural assumption was that web development should be sorted under media production. After all, it looked superficially like laying out newspaper&#x2F;magazine pages.<p>So the formal web development classes got handed to the media department. And those places were a Apple stronghold.<p>This because most of the lecturers were people that at one point or other had established the techniques and such taught by using early Macintosh computers and its GUI.<p>Frankly, outside of USA, media production was the only market for Apple. And the one thing that was keeping them afloat during the 90s.