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Ask HN: What company were you at when the dot-com bubble burst in mid 2000?
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Re: Ask HN: What company were you at when the dot-com bubble burst in mid 2000?
#2Wasn't the .com bubble more mid-90's than mid-2000's?
Re: Ask HN: What company were you at when the dot-com bubble burst in mid 2000?
#3Wasn't the .com bubble more mid-90's than mid-2000's?
My apologies for not clarifying...I meant when the dot com bubble burst in the mid-2000's.
Edit: to prevent any other miscommunication in the title.
Re: Ask HN: What company were you at when the dot-com bubble burst in mid 2000?
#4Cupertino Middle School. B-)
Re: Ask HN: What company were you at when the dot-com bubble burst in mid 2000?
#5I'm from '90, so in school... :)
Re: Ask HN: What company were you at when the dot-com bubble burst in mid 2000?
#6I was a developer at a startup that specialized in creating some cool fleet management software for the trucking industry, as well as some way-ahead-of-its-time mobile technology (WAP).
I personally believe that if this company re-booted and started up again today, it would rock.
Re: Ask HN: What company were you at when the dot-com bubble burst in mid 2000?
#7Born in '83, so in 2000 I was in high school :-)
Re: Ask HN: What company were you at when the dot-com bubble burst in mid 2000?
#8I was working for a company in Irvine, CA that did VoIP/telephony.
Some of our stuff was pretty neat. We ended up open sourcing part of the project. It was a C++/CORBA system that allowed for passing of messages of different types (calendar, bulletin board, e-mail, faxes, and voicemails) across the various transports.
It looks like the sourceforge site still exists: http://tucan.sourceforge.net
Ironically, the company was called Difinium at the time it folded and I ended up moving from there to Digium doing similar things with Asterisk.
Re: Ask HN: What company were you at when the dot-com bubble burst in mid 2000?
#9I was a developer at a startup that specialized in creating some cool fleet management software for the trucking industry, as well as some way-ahead-of-its-time mobile technology (WAP). I personally believe that if this company re-booted and started up again today, it would rock.
Ah, the old "ahead-of-its-time" thing. I feel like the company that I worked for was there as well.
I felt like some folks just didn't "get" what it was we were working on. I almost feel that if we were doing the same thing just a couple years later or if that acquisition offer hadn't gone south that things would have turned out much differently.
Who knows, maybe we just marketed things incorrectly. It was, however, one of the most fun times of my life. I do not regret it at all.
Re: Ask HN: What company were you at when the dot-com bubble burst in mid 2000?
#10Born in '83, so in 2000 I was in high school :-)
:D me 2