Dot Com Crash

San Francisco was a very bleak place in the aftermath of the dot.com meltdown that began in the spring of 2000. Every single day of that summer I woke up to the news of more layoffs, more shutdowns, and a general sense of despondency which only got worse when the tragic morning of September 11, 2001, brought a swift end to whatever innocence and optimism remained. I remember feeling under a pall of gloom, going about with a dark cloud over my soul and tears in my eyes. The months that followed that horrific event were particularly difficult but I found a way to react, and that was to write. So I started writing on my blog. About technology. About the networks. About the Internet. I wrote about jobs lost. I wrote about things that could be. And things that would be. Deep down, I believed in one thing for