Ask HN: What Is Your Most Vivid Memory from the Dotcom Boom?

Reading fuckedcompany.com every morning and watching the carnage happen in realtime.

The night it all ended. For a few years you couldn't get into any restaurant SF North Beach on the weekend without reserving days or even weeks in advance. Then one Saturday night my wife and I were walking around looking for a place to eat and realized every restaurant we looked at had tables available.

(I think it was in February 2001.)

This E-Trade commercial that played during the Superbowl. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BnQMq5wtZcg

Sitting in Netscape’s sysadmin offices at midnight Dec 31, 1999, watching them monitor for Y2K issues. My friend was on duty that night, and we’d offered to keep him company. Most of their servers had times that were skewed and/or in different time zones, so the actual transition was smeared over many hours. But by my watch, the real local midnight was celebrated by somebody popping their head over the top of their cubicle and shouting “Fishcam okay!” https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fishcam

I know there were probably more dramatic places to spend that moment, but I’m glad I hung around for that.

Playing quake 3 arena in the office with 30 other engineers after the work day.