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Comment by skyberrys | Hacker News Reader

I was a teenager around the dot-com and to this day I feel an idealized sense of longing for participation in the exciting times of the dot-coms. You guys got to enjoy the blazing innovation of the new internet, so full of endless possibilities. Tough luck on your bubble popping moment though.

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Well, it was exciting I guess. I even knew someone who worked for pets.com!

On the other hand, I worked for a startup selling product information management software to large retailers, and was about as non dot-com as you could get. When the bubble burst, all the funding disappeared for all tech companies, not just the dot-com ones, so we were also all out of a job. Which was not fun.

The sad part wasn't the bubble bursting...

It was watching all the potential being squandered and the internet basically being relegated to click farming and selling people crap they don't need.

All the really cool stuff seems to have died with the bubble...

You're still around :)

If only the Internet were much more frequently as nice as your reply. :-)

LOL - True Dat !! Thanks!

>You're still around :)

You sound like my doctor! : )

I think the sad part was the people entering the IT workforce for only money. Don't get me wrong, I understand why and not gatekeeping. But it was the first time I know that people with computer skills were highly in demand, so anyone who had turned on a computer was able to get a job even if they knew nothing of how a computer actually worked, or networking.

Ah man, you are too right there. Now cool stuff requires wading through trash to find it.

The spam results dominating Google, runaway popups... ugh

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