dot coms

I started my 'IT Career' building and supporting machines for a local white box store. Later I moved into a development gig and learned Visual C++ was not for me.

I did learn, though, that I loved making machines talk to each other.

With this I moved into the SMB world as 'The IT Guy' for start-ups.

I built my way up to being the 'IT Manager' for dot-coms until THAT fell apart.

Now I provide tech support for a major computer manufacturer's Enterprise Server line.

I'm the OS and Software support analyst for my team.

CALL it a dot.com revival, a throwback to the late 1990s, when Web start-ups were mushrooming everywhere. More than 200 such outfits have popped up lately, up from just a handful just three years ago, estimates a group called Entrepreneur27 (e27).