I met up with an old friend of mine with whom I used to work years ago at a Web site called OnTap.com. I've yet to meet anyone who actually saw it.
It was my introduction to the work world, which some mistakently consider the "real world." It felt more surreal than anything.
I remember in particular going to a company-sponsored party (ie, open bar!) up at some loft in the West Village in NYC. I just couldn't get over the fact that only three months ago I was packing up my stuff in Gainesville, with no real idea of where I'd end up.
The whole dot com thing was a fun ride while it lasted, so we reminisced a bit about it today. Scooter races in the building, two-hour, beer-fueled lunches at a dive in Jamesburg, one ill-advised game of Ultimate Frisbee (Ultimate Frisbee is hard! How do the hippies do it?!)...
He told me of a site that actually archives old Web sites. Check out the Internet Archive, and while you are there, type in www.ontap.com in the search field (or just click here. Not quite sure the link works.) Anyway, it's nice to get a blast from the past now and again!
*Geek speak: Most of what they have for OnTap doesn't quite work anymore, as we used quite a few .inc files that resided on servers that no longer exist. Oh well. Digital cobwebs.
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