[kongin]

In 2006 SF was well on the way to world domination, google was the hottest place to work and a whole bunch of other things were cropping up. The long cold internet winter after 2000 was thawing and dotcom bubble 2.0 was just starting to throf.

I rather enjoyed the internet 2000-2005. It was like squatting and having a rave in an recently abandoned factory.

[prayingforexits]

2000-2005 Internet truly was a dirty Berlin aircraft hanger deep house rave

[siva7]

Even early HN ca. 2008 felt a bit like that. But honestly i don't have the feeling that much changed and i've been lurking on HN pretty much since since the beginning as a kid.

[kongin]

Yeah and it's been getting gentrified since.

It sucks that a bunch of nimbys came here and threw everyone fun out.

Hell even pg would get flagged off hn if he said the stuff he used to in the 00s.

[p1esk]

Google is still the hottest place to work, closely followed by Facebook (whether HN crowd likes it or not). Just look where the best and brightest CS graduates from top schools go to.

[kongin]

> Just look where the best and brightest CS graduates from top schools go to.

Yeah, it's not google or facebook. The people who go there today went to Wall Street/law firms 20 years ago. The shift started 10 years ago which is when it stopped being fun to work at google/facebook. Sure the people going there have the grades and cv but they don't have the brains.

[systemvoltage]

Best time of my life.