[freehunter]

As a follow-up, anyone have any books written about the Dotcom era? I was still fairly young at the time so I don’t remember a lot of it and I can’t find any books or shows that cover it. Lots of stuff from the 70s/80s/early 90s (Masters of Doom, Cuckoos Egg, Halt and Catch Fire, Pirates of Silicon Valley), and lots of stuff from modern Silicon Valley (Bad Blood, Silicon Valley, the various Steve Jobs movies/books) but it seems like the startup world from 1995 to 2002 is just a blank space waiting to be filled.

What about Yahoo and Amazon and Pets.com and Webvan and eBay? What about stock being used for toilet paper and employees wheeling their Aeron chairs home when the company folded? What about Enron? How did 9/11 impact the Dotcom bust? Hell, what programming languages/frameworks were they using?

[packetslave]

There's "The Nudist on the Late Shift" by Po Bronson, which is an expansion on his various Wired writing from the Dotcom era. It's pretty good.

https://www.amazon.com/Nudist-Shift-Other-Silicon-Valley/dp/...

You can read the first (and best) chapter here: https://www.wired.com/1999/07/pilgrims/

[pilsetnieks]

There was a Josh Hartnett/Adam Scott movie called August that's set in the dot-com boom. It's got fairly low reviews but I also don't think they do it justice. Some of the reviews seem to be about how it's impenetrable and hard to understand.

For some lighter fare that others in your family might also connect to, there's Ashton Kutcher's A lot like love but there the dot-com thing is just a side plot.

Also, Antitrust with Ryan Phillippe. Not specifically about the dot-com boom but roughly the same time period.

I mean none of those movies are masterpieces but I think they impart some sense of the time period.

[loganfrederick]

Dot.con by John Cassidy: https://www.amazon.com/Dot-America-Lost-Money-Internet-ebook...

[ipython]

“Speeding the net” was decent. Mostly about Netscape and their battle for supremacy in the browser market with Microsoft. Also on that topic, the movie “code rush” was decent. I believe it’s on YouTube.

Of interest, eBay started as a site to distribute information about the then Ebola outbreak.

[pjmorris]

The oldest 'Joel on Software' [0] posts are kind of a window into some of the best writing on software of that time.

[0] https://www.joelonsoftware.com/

[simplicio]

"How the Internet Happened" by Brian McCullough covers the early years of the internet through the dotcom bust. He has a podcast consisting of some of the chapters for the book and interviews he did while writing.