news.ycombinator.com• Oct 6, 2025• 1 min read
I Miss Web 2.0I moved to SF in 2007.In those days, Twitter had launched in 2005 in Austin.I met the founders of Instagram at Cafe du Soleil in Lower Haight back when it was this awesome little site and app with a cute retro camera icon.I went to the first JSconf in Washington DC in 2008 or 2009. The vibe at the conference were early exercises into creating early server side runtimes for JS. I think Ryan Dahl might have been at that conference. Coffeescript had a presence, and the guys behind CouchDB announced their thing. I forget but if Node wasn't announced there, it was soon after. I remember a competing project called llmjs or something like that I learned about at the conference. I think it was a Japanese dev behind it.John Resig, the guy that created jQuery was a small celebrity. We shared an elevator ride. I was too nervous/excited to even say hello properly. It's weird that I've met celebrities and it's kinda normal but boring. But standing 3 feet from an otherwise normal, somewhat short dud