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Article: Bay Of Gigs.(San Francisco Bay Area, California)(Brief Article)
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- Entrepreneur
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- April 1, 2000
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Watch out, San Francisco! The Internet is upon you.
It's hard to ignore the impact that Internet entrepreneurship has made on San Francisco. The skyline is peppered with billboards for dot.com-everything-under-the-sun. The twentysomething crowd cruises around town in sportscars, chatting on their cell phones. And hot topics of conversation have moved away from local politics and free love and toward stock options and retirement at age 40.
As the rest of the nation is just starting to see the effects of the tech climate on city cultures, everyone s keeping a close eye on the Bay area--for good reason. Perhaps nowhere else has the impact of the Internet ...