The Rise and Fall of the Dot-Com Foosball Table

The Jungian symbol of supposedly “liberated” work

Clive Thompson
5 min readMar 10

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Photo by Stefan Steinbauer on Unsplash

Back during the dot-com boom of the late 90s, if you visited one of the then-hot startups in San Francisco — or other major US cities like New York — there was an emerging workplace aesthetic.

Ties were out; skater clothes were in. Cubicles were becoming passé — many dot-coms…

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Clive Thompson

I write 2X a week on tech, science, culture — and how those collide. Writer at NYT mag/Wired; author, “Coders”. @clive@saturation.social clive@clivethompson.net