The media loved covering the Great Dot-Com Bubble during the late 1990s-early 2000s, but the stories they told were often from the perspective of the CEOs with golden parachutes, or the venture capitalists who quickly moved on to other endeavors. This site aims to capture and share stories of the ordinary workers behind the dot-com frenzy – developers, sys admins, designers, writers, office managers and everyone else – who worked in Silicon Valley during those ‘interesting times.’
Whether the company was sensibly-run (or lucky) and still thrives today, or if it became a casualty of the crash by 2001, we want your stories, no matter how pedestrian or strange.
The site is run by an ex-dot-commer who happens to be a trained archivist, so the eventual goal will be to find common themes: women in tech, the impact of the crash on subsequent career progression, why those who left tech moved on, the most ludicrous aspects of the bubble, and anything else that emerges organically.
Feel free to direct any and all questions to the historian.