>>8095395Good way to put it. Its hard to explain, but this is how I felt like 2000-2010. I grew up in an area with lots of tech firms on large green campuses, separated by parkland and forests. Lots of young professionals came to the area for the dot-com bubble and later rise of the internet through like ~2015 or so. Very green and lush, hi-tech, and hopeful.
The internet at that time felt like a place to discover new stuff and find new stuff. It wasn't reduced to the clout-chasing, pessimistic, panic spreading, ad-delivery machine it has become.
A couple major firms in my area folded, and while the tech scene still exists, it seems much more dog-eat-dog than it once was. Lots of the young talent left the area, and much of the green space through the area has been sold off and become strip malls serving slop to the remaining overworked engineers.
Anyways.
