This post made be nostalgic for that period which started in 2002-2003 (just after the dot-com crash ) up to 2008-2009 (when FB and Twitter emerged and when Google "changed" its skin to a full ad company), when everything worth reading was being published on blogs, when people (myself included) still believed in the open web (we were all very busy bashing SOAP) and when it wasn't all about IPOs and earning obscene amounts of money (it's also the period when this website was put online and when its founder was just a respected blogger, LISP-er and former Yahoo employee). Good times.