https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=jxh11Hacker News RSShttps://hnrss.org/hnrss v2.1.1Wed, 20 May 2026 21:58:25 +0000My first day of orientation at the CS dept was at the height of the dot com crash. I think I got told by 20+ seniors that day to drop out before paying a single bill. That it was all pointless and the internet was an over valued bubble and no one was getting hired. Mood on campus was scary for almost two years post the crash. If we had social media back then I can only imagine how much more fears would have been amplified.

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