sfGirl.com was an
online community
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founded by Patty Beron (sfGirl), a social media pioneer. While sometimes referred to as a "legendary party crasher"
and "queen of
San Francisco
San Francisco, officially the City and County of San Francisco, is a commercial, Financial District, San Francisco, financial, and Culture of San Francisco, cultural center of Northern California. With a population of 827,526 residents as of ...
's
dot-com party scene,"
Beron was a web developer and programmer with a vision to create one of the first noted online communities in the Bay Area. The website was active as an online community from April 1999 until October 2002.
History
Beron founded the site in early 1999 to document, popularize, and promote social and business networking parties that had become part of the business culture of San Francisco's "dot com" industry,
as well as her persona as a glamorous
gatecrasher
Gatecrasher is an international clubbing brand made famous by the "Gatecrasher" (later "Crasher") dance music events, which were held at the Republic nightclub in Sheffield, UK during the late 1990s and early 2000s. The promoters of the brand ...
.
Following the
"dot com crash" of 2001, during which much of the industry collapsed, Beron began promoting "
pink slip parties" highly successful recruiting events and the "Schwag Exchange" at which people would give away promotional items they had collected.
The site is no longer active as an event page but you can visit the page to learn about the dot com party history.
In 2000, the
San Francisco Bay Guardian
The ''San Francisco Bay Guardian'' was a free alternative newspaper published weekly in San Francisco, California. The paper was shut down on October 14, 2014. Parts of the paper were relaunched online in February 2016.
History
The ''Bay Guar ...
called sfGirl.com the best place to "find the parties where you can get all liquored up for free and talk to 23-year-old millionaires."
In early 2019, the
National Geographic Channel
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docudrama
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Valley of the Boom
''Valley of the Boom'' (stylized as ''Valley_of_the_BOOM'') is an American docudrama television miniseries created by Matthew Carnahan that premiered on January 13, 2019, on National Geographic. The series centers on the 1990s tech boom and bu ...
profiled both Beron and sfGirl.com with both interviews and dramatizations in episodes 3 and 6 of this miniseries concerning the party scene during the dot com boom and bust at the end of the millennium.
Today Patty Beron posts content related to sfgirl.com and related history on Instagram as "@therealsfgirl".
References
External links
*{{official site, https://www.sfgirl.com/
Social networking websites
Dot-com bubble