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Sometime circa 1998 there was a group looking for new technical hires for startups they invested in. They posted somewhere, perhaps /., that they were accepting
by macintux 2y ago
Sometime circa 1998 there was a group looking for new technical hires for startups they invested in. They posted somewhere, perhaps /., that they were accepting résumés via SMTP on a non-standard port, as a filter mechanism.
I never heard back, although I ended up working for one of their companies the next year anyway.
- eszed 2y agoAround the same time people sometimes posted job openings in the html source of their websites. I never answered any, 'cause I wasn't looking for technical jobs at the time, but it always seemed clever to me. Any, and only, nerds who were interested in web development incessantly "View Source"ed on every page that looked interesting. It was a major vector by which early-web frontend techniques spread themselves, and it was great: you could cut-and-paste the html, direct download the .css and other resources, and get an offline model of their site running for you to tinker with to learn their secrets. All the magic was out in the open (for those who cared to pull back the curtain), and the future seemed limitless.
- dpcx 2y agoI recall a similar company that advertised their jobs through DNS. I think they had a TXT record that suggested how to actually apply.
- internetter 2y agoWas the port documented, or did you need to do a scan?
- macintux 2y agoWe needed to scan. If 30-year-old memories can be trusted, it was on port 666.