Sand Hill Slave

I recently got together with a group of friends and ended up reminiscing about the dotcom bubble- Here are some things  that came to my mind:

Remember when.....

Everyone read the Industry Standard..... in print?!?! 

Silicon Valley launch parties almost overtook Hollywood movie premieres in coolness?

We drooled over Po Bronson in People magazine and immediately ran out to buy "The Nudist on the Late Shift"?

Cosmopolitan Magazine briefly featured Mark Van Haren and got girls excited?

Anyone who was anyone was in Round Zero?

Katrina Garnett hired famed fashion photographer Richard Avedon to shoot her rockin' the curves in a Herve Leger dress? (Hope you saved the dress babe, because Herve is ruling the runway these days!)

Women would be "start up" groupies at networking events?

Therapists would charge those same women $300 an hour to hear them cry about their top self esteem issue: "My boyfriend isn't a CEO at an internet start up..." 

Geeks dropping phrases such as "funded by a top tier venture firm", "pre- IPO stock options" on attractive women made "league disparity issues" a thing of the past?

Exercising options happened more than exercising outdoors?

The calculation of your AMT usually resulted in a visit from an EMT?

SF Hotspot Ruby Skye would have a line around the block and the Bubble Lounge was packed to the gills with.. what else...? Internet Bubbleonians! (Thx "Sosa" for the term- it always makes me laugh to hear it...)

The trailer for Startup.com would appear before movies and Bay Area audiences would snicker, hoot, and holler?

You couldn't look at pictures of epic dotcom failure Boo.com's founders Ernst Malmsten and Kasja Leander without thinking "And now Sprockets..WE DANCE!" 

Ahhhh those were the days!!