Via a link in my facebook, I came across:
It’s the I.P.O., Stupid!.

My first job from college (actually helped start, and got credit for it as a senior project) was as the original programmer for theglobe.com.

I remember long hours back in the CS lab at Cornell getting our version of web based chat (one of only 3 at the time )running on our PowerMac 6100 pizza box machines. And the random outages we had whenever we decided to play a networked game of Marathon.