Hacker NewsMar 7

Tech jobs are getting demolished in ways not seen since 2008

https://www.businessinsider.com/tech-jobs-getting-demolished-great-recession-dot-com-era-2026-3

#HackerNews #TechJobs #Demolished #JobMarket #Recession2023 #BusinessInsider #DotComEra

Tech jobs are getting demolished in ways not seen since 2008 and the dot-com bust

It's a rough time to be looking for a tech job. Economist Joseph Politano said losses in the industry outpaced those in the last two recessions.

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N-gated Hacker NewsDec 17
🚀 Ah, the glory days of #VA #Linux, where selling dreams of penguins 🐧 on servers led to the dotcom era's biggest #IPO circus. A model so groundbreaking it's now a relic of tech fossils 🦖. Who knew Linux could cause such a stock market comedy show? 😂
https://dfarq.homeip.net/va-linux-the-biggest-dotcom-ipo/ #LinuxHistory #DotcomEra #TechFossils #StockMarketComedy #HackerNews #ngated
VA Linux: The biggest dotcom IPO

You'll be surprised who it ended up merging with

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fraggleAug 17, 2025

Around 1999 and 2000, Slashdot was the pulse of tech culture. Known as “News for Nerds, Stuff that Matters,” it mixed open source chatter, hardware hacks, and dot com drama. A link from Slashdot could bring down a small site instantly, a phenomenon later dubbed the “Slashdot Effect.” It was a cornerstone of early internet community building.

#Slashdot #DotComEra #InternetCulture #OpenSourceHistory #TechCommunity

Silicon Underground (Dave F)Mar 31, 2025
26 years ago tomorrow, Yahoo bought Mark Cuban's dotcom-era startup, broadcast.com, for $4.6 billion. Like many startups, it wasn't making money yet. But the deal made Mark Cuban a billionaire. He sold at just the right time. #RetroComputing #DotComEra https://dfarq.homeip.net/how-mark-cuban-became-rich/
How Mark Cuban became rich

Yahoo shut down his startup just three years later.

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Silicon Underground (Dave F)Mar 19, 2025
During the dotcom era, some people regarded AOL as the safest investment of all the 90s tech stocks. It was a somewhat older company, was an Internet provider, and gave a healthy return. For a while at least. #retrocomputing #dotcomera #techinvesting #nostalgiatech https://dfarq.homeip.net/aol-history/
AOL history

During the dotcom era, AOL was considered almost a blue chip stock

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Silicon Underground (Dave F)Feb 12, 2025
24 years ago this week, Google made its first acquisition, a Usenet archive called Dejanews. I was a regular. In this blog post I tell you where Google hides that treasure trove of information from long before Reddit. #retrocomputing #dotcomera #webhistory #usenet https://dfarq.homeip.net/deja-news-googles-first-acquisition/
Deja News: Google's first acquisition

Before Reddit, before Stack Overflow, there were Usenet Newsgroups.

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