Techie autopsy casts a too-familiar Net.

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As the dot-com boom came to a close, publications were rife with tales of free-spending twentysomething executives who bestowed Porsche Boxsters on employees and insisted upon six-figure launch parties. Given the backing of financiers who didn't fully understand the Internet, these executives with no business experience but a tremendous amount of money gave America a brief taste of what the workplace would be like if every office operated like a ...

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