All This Buzz Certainly Sounds Familiar

from the hey,-who-turned-back-the-clock dept

People are beginning to notice. There have been lots of little signs creeping up on everyone, and suddenly you look around and it feels like Silicon Valley is booming again. Companies are doing well. There's lots of hype - and where there's hype, there's venture capital cash. Of course, this time around everyone claims they've learned their lessons from 1999, but just wait and see what a few hot IPOs will do to selectively erase some memories.
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    dorpus, 8 Apr 2004 @ 2:47pm

    New Money City

    Unlike previous boom towns, people who work in the valley aren't planning to stay there. The valley has had a sterile, communityless lifestyle going for decades now, with its lopsided demographic of young programmer types. A sterile landscape of square two-storey buildings and brown grass, its monuments include the new highway interchange at 101 and the seasonal christmas re-enactment park with plastic statues of santa clause.


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    dorpus, 8 Apr 2004 @ 2:54pm

    Oh and

    people in northern california have a silly belief that air conditioning is "evil", so most buildings in the valley don't have it. In the summer, you can look forward to working in computer-warmed office cubicles, or taking a break by walking into stores that are the same temperature as the outside. It is uncomfortable, but people in the valley, being competitive by spirit, will insist the temperature is "fine".

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    anonymous, 8 Apr 2004 @ 9:41pm

    No Subject Given

    I played the dotcom game, I partiedl ike it was 1999, and I have the worthless stock options to prove it. But my question about the echo boom is:

    When am I going to get an Aeron? My chair sucks, and it makes my butt sweat.

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      jeremiah, 9 Apr 2004 @ 3:16am

      Re: No Subject Given

      Ditto on the Aeron...

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        Anonymous Coward, 12 Apr 2004 @ 7:28am

        Re: No Subject Given

        Another boom? Excellent. Just let me surf fuckedcompany.com for some failed dotcoms that we could ressurrect by adding a "social networking" component, and its Aeron chairs and gold plated underwear for the whole damn office!

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