Yet even as a programmer living on tech’s periphery, he enjoyed the boom times. He attended soirees underwritten by sold URLS.
Almost no one had a computer in the ’80s, so an Illinois window-washer was an unlikely early adopter. But Jon Cortelyou’s father thought it essential for his squeaky-clean business — a decision that, unwittingly, would catapult his son into the digital world.
The Silicon Valley destination was even more suburban than it is now, somehow. “Oh, it was so bad. I was like the only person in their early 20s in the entire city.” When the bubble burst and his friends deserted the city, Cortelyou stayed behind, working for decades in video game development. He bounced around San Francisco before landing in the Mission last year. He’d always dreamed of living here, he said, and is hooked on its burritos.
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