[jedberg]

I think you're off by about 5 years but otherwise correct. :)

I remember our startup didn't have a library, but we had one dude who had an entire shelf of O'Reilly books that the company bought for him, so it was sort of our defacto library. When he got laid off, it was like vultures circling a kill to get his books into the IT pen so we would have them.

When I got laid off the company let me take some of them home, and that is what started my home collection of O'Reilly books, and that was in 2001. By 2009 we didn't really use books anymore -- it was all on the internet.