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The author graduated university 2006. Assuming this was the beginning of his careeer, then he seems to be looking back fancifully on events he wasn’t party to.

• aedron 8y ago
  Yeah. Neither Amazon, Google or eBay were 'toys', they were all built to tackle huge markets right from the get-go. Really bad examples.
  • fsloth 8y ago
    Google began as a PhD research project and their server was housed in a shell of Lego bricks[0][1]. I don't know how it could be any more toylike... [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Google#/media/File:The_first_Google_computer_at_Stanford.jpg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Google#/media/File:... [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Google https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Google
    • hguhghuff 8y ago
      Errr... playfulness at work doesn’t really provide a connection with the sort of Toy market being proposed here. Just because there were toys literally in googles fun style of work doesn’t mean they’re children literally playing with toys.
    • Kagerjay 8y ago
      I never noticed this, but those original lego bricks are the colors of google's logo today.