Inside the Y2K dot-com boom: a weekend's work bought me a Fiat 500
Let's all meet up in the Y2K
A personal look back at working for London digital agency Blueberry during the dot-com boom, featuring photos of the office, translucent iMacs, CRT monitors, and the author's hand-coded HTML. The author recalls being paid thousands of pounds for a weekend's work, playing Quake III over LAN, and the agency's eventual collapse.
The management said yes, it was their only option.
- darkwater
Focusing more on the "social side" rather the HW part, there is the part about the "Viral email", which must have been something that went viral in the UK Internet circles but not outside (I don't remember it and Y2K Internet was much smaller). Investigating about it you can end up reading The Register "article" about it [1] and well, that's something that definitely would not be published nowadays. Names and surnames of all the people involved in it, the literal sentence of the viral email copypasted there. It really shows how a different time it was regarding privacy and personal data.
[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20010413114456/http://www.thereg...
EDIT: I mean, things like this obviously keep happening nowadays in closed (and not so closed) social media circles, but you won't see an online publication putting down names in written form like that.
- badsectoracula
> Diesel jeans and jumper, Deliverance food box on the partition (decades before Deliveroo, Just Eat, Uber Eats, etc).
Might be me being a millennial, but I love the 90s/early 2000s "edge", calling a delivery service "Deliverance" :-P
- TrackerFF
At my last employer we had a extensive photo gallery with workplace pictures taken from the 60s and up to present day, thousands if images. It was fun to browse through when you had some downtime.
But, as with this collection, I was most surprised how little things like fashion had changed between say 2000 and 2025. Sure, eyeglasses and some clothing articles (mostly suits/coats/ties, which were a bit roomier and bigger back then...) could give away the era, but in the pics where people just wore chinos or jeans and some casual sweater or t-shirt, not much has changed.
Compare that to looking at a picture from 2000 and just 1990, 10 years, and the difference is like night and day. Or 1990 and 1980.
At some point on the early 2000s, casual everyday wear among adults just stopped evolving, or slowed down tremendously. The giveaway is usually the tech and furniture, or photo quality (how it was captured).
- tetris11
"When work felt like home"
Gosh I haven't experienced that in a while. Working remote really does feel like a death sentence sometimes
- WorldPeas
> Omni Trio being played regularly
that seals it.. my nostalgia for this time (from many an adult's tale in my young life) was not misplaced.
If only it still felt like this, you can see it sometimes, if only a little. And maybe we'll feel the same way looking back to now from what will be.