I wasn't involved, but was hired shortly afterwards as sysadmin and witnessed the aftermath. Around the bubble-burst time a medium-sized website's code base wa

I wasn't involved, but was hired shortly afterwards as sysadmin and witnessed the aftermath. Around the bubble-burst time a medium-sized website's code base was converted from Perl (out of fashion already) to Java (the hot new thing everyone was talking about). Thing was just, there weren't all that many expert Java programmers around and the remaining expert Perl programmers became utterly frustrated and disengaged. That was the first and only time that I encountered colleagues high on drugs at work (and could be certain of it). It was an ugly mess. The company was eventually acquired by its largest customer and withered for a few more years before finally being dissolved.