By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 07/05/2026Servers sold in bulk for pennies on the dollar (with user data still on them!). I bought a "dining room set" of six $1,000+ office chairs for $50 each (still wrapped in plastic!) from a dotcom founder who was selling them on the sidewalk out front of his failed startup's office in the Mission. 28/ 1230
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 07/05/2026He offered to sell me ten lifetime's supply of branded t-shirts for $20. I turned him down. That was the birth of Web 2.0. 29/ 1210
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 07/05/2026All of a sudden, people who wanted to make *real* things that were *good* could do so, because they could find skilled workers, hardware, and office space at such knock-down prices that they could be funded out of pocket or put on a credit card. 30/ 1292