> That prompted me to recall Carl Berg from the prior era of the 1980s and 1990s tech boom. Minor point: those were two tech booms, a 1980s one and a 1990s one

> That prompted me to recall Carl Berg from the prior era of the 1980s and 1990s tech boom. Minor point: those were two tech booms, a 1980s one and a 1990s one, separated by the recession of the early 1990s. I was not around, but period books describe the early 1990s recession as impacting the technology sector fairly seriously.