#dotcomera — Public Fediverse posts

🚀 Oh, joy, another nostalgic rant about #Y2K from a self-proclaimed digital archeologist who thinks old photos from the dotcom era are groundbreaking! 🙄 Prepare your eyeballs for an avalanche of blurry low-res images and tales of translucent plastic that nobody asked for. 🖼️✨
https://blog.gingerbeardman.com/2026/08/06/lets-all-meet-up-in-the-y2k/ #Nostalgia #DigitalArcheology #DotcomEra #BlurryImages #TechRants #HackerNews #ngated

Tech jobs are getting demolished in ways not seen since 2008

https://www.businessinsider.com/tech-jobs-getting-demolished-great-recession-dot-com-era-2026-3

#HackerNews #TechJobs #Demolished #JobMarket #Recession2023 #BusinessInsider #DotComEra

🚀 Ah, the glory days of #VA #Linux, where selling dreams of penguins 🐧 on servers led to the dotcom era's biggest #IPO circus. A model so groundbreaking it's now a relic of tech fossils 🦖. Who knew Linux could cause such a stock market comedy show? 😂
https://dfarq.homeip.net/va-linux-the-biggest-dotcom-ipo/ #LinuxHistory #DotcomEra #TechFossils #StockMarketComedy #HackerNews #ngated

26 years ago tomorrow, Yahoo bought Mark Cuban's dotcom-era startup, broadcast.com, for $4.6 billion. Like many startups, it wasn't making money yet. But the deal made Mark Cuban a billionaire. He sold at just the right time. #RetroComputing #DotComEra https://dfarq.homeip.net/how-mark-cuban-became-rich/

During the dotcom era, some people regarded AOL as the safest investment of all the 90s tech stocks. It was a somewhat older company, was an Internet provider, and gave a healthy return. For a while at least. #retrocomputing #dotcomera #techinvesting #nostalgiatech https://dfarq.homeip.net/aol-history/

24 years ago this week, Google made its first acquisition, a Usenet archive called Dejanews. I was a regular. In this blog post I tell you where Google hides that treasure trove of information from long before Reddit. #retrocomputing #dotcomera #webhistory #usenet https://dfarq.homeip.net/deja-news-googles-first-acquisition/