Really well-written piece. Someone else mentioned Brett Easton-Ellis in this thread, and I totally got that vibe from the early paragraphs on.<p>What really got me though, was thinking about my earliest days building small Beavis and Butthead fan sites on Geocities, browsing Netscape for hours and waiting five minutes for a certain page to finally load.  I was only 12 then, but everything just felt so new and shiny, and as someone else said like it could and would change the world.<p>Having now lived around and worked in tech for a while, stories like these make me feel a bit like I have been punched in the gut. It just seems negative and gross, but in a really captivating way. I connect with what the writer is saying, but also still get butterflies in my stomach when I think back to the  90&#x27;s and my earliest exposure to startups and internet use.<p>At any rate, just me rambling. Well-done and insightful, I would read an entire novel like this.