Brian’s tale of the Web 2.0 conference reminds me of my trip to SXSW 2000, at the height of Web 1.0:
The thing that struck me the hardest about the first two days of Web2.0: the greed. The smell of money. The possibility of money. The imminence
of money. Gobs of it. Truckloads. More than you could ever count. Huge,
massive sums of money. The place was drenched in the presence of and
desire for money. All of it. Now. Sooner than now. Gimme.
Still in college, I remember feeling like if I had expressed interest, I could get a job along with that free shirt, just for knowing HTML.
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