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I love how you collect shirts of failed companies & wear em on msdn shows, it’s like a underhanded memento mori of sorts.
by seltzered_ 7y ago
I love how you collect shirts of failed companies & wear em on msdn shows, it’s like a underhanded memento mori of sorts.
- pchristensen 7y agoThe Groupon office lobby had a picture of Andrew Mason on the cover of a magazine, surrounded by magazine covers of famous dotcom meltdowns. I always loved that. Well, that and the cat UFO. See https://amp.businessinsider.com/images/4cec169bccd1d5e76e060000-480-320.jpg https://amp.businessinsider.com/images/4cec169bccd1d5e76e060..., https://www.businessinsider.com/groupon-office-tour-2010-11#theres-groupon-cofounder-and-ceo-andrew-masons-recent-forbes-cover-in-the-middle-surrounded-by-magazine-covers-of-famous-dotcom-meltdowns-like-myspace-netscape-and-aol-this-is-how-mason-keeps-himself-grounded-5 https://www.businessinsider.com/groupon-office-tour-2010-11#...
- filmgirlcw 7y agoThank you for noticing! Honestly, I like to be subversive (because if I can, why not!), and I also genuinely think it is a good thing to remember that as you allude, "we all die" or more to the point, "no company/product/language/technology is guaranteed a forever."
- fortran77 7y agoThanks for reminding me! I think I'll get a Rust T-Shirt and save it for a few years. It'll be like the "Oberon" T-Shirt I still have.