It’s 1998, the middle of the Dot-Com era. It’s a real (and funny) look at nerd life at the turn of the millennium.
This is the journal of Roger, a former Midwesterner who relocates to the Bay Area. It’s 1998, and Roger finds himself right in the middle of the Dot-Com era. It’s a real (and funny) look at nerd life at the turn of the millennium.
Roger relocates into a communal house of eccentric roommates, all recent graduates of the new Internet economy. Even though they are all saddled with their own brand of jubilant dysfunction, they plunge headfirst into a world of wild investors, extravagant launch parties, and overnight millionaires.
Roger faces his new life with enthusiasm, humor, and bewilderment. But time moves on, and computer jockeys who spent most of their waking hours at work are rewarded for their efforts with pink-slips. Now the roommates try to come to terms with their new downwardly mobile life style.
Much of the story concerns the roommate’s efforts to find work and "have a life." It’s a radical adjustment from hectic 16-hour workdays to days without end. Roger examines the angst of the white-collar twenty-somethings, and their physical and social alienation from life on (and off) the Internet.