Friday, November 2, 2007

The Birth of the Proto-Bubble Hottie


filed under: Retrosexual, Bubble Hotties by Melissa Gira | Leave a Comment

Name that year, kiddos:

The area has sprouted computer-themed art galleries, a billiard hall and a Gold’s Gym, where former geeks can acquire new muscles to match their beefed-up social status. There is even “Gulch Gossip,” a column in a local computer magazine. Its author, who writes under the name Jonathan E., says, “My attitude is, if there’s going to be a media industry, it’s going to run by media morals — people will get drunk and swap each other’s wives.”

That would be The New York Times, on San Francisco’s newly sexed-up web culture, c. 1994.

(photo by & link via Scott Beale/Laughing Squid, gloriously reminiscing)

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