sfGirl.com was an
online community founded by Patty Beron (sfGirl), a social media pioneer. While sometimes referred to as a "legendary party crasher"
and "queen of
San Francisco's
dot-com party
A dot-com party (often known as an Internet party or more generally, a launch party) is a social and business networking party hosted by an Internet-related business, typically for promotional purposes or to celebrate a corporate event such as a ...
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.
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The site is no longer active as an event page but you can visit the page to learn about the dot com party history.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. It was founded in 1966 by Bruce B. Brugmann and his wife, Jean Dibble. The paper was shut down on October 14, 2014. It was relaun ...
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
National Geographic (formerly National Geographic Channel; abbreviated and trademarked as Nat Geo or Nat Geo TV) is an American pay television television network, network and flagship (broadcasting), flagship channel owned by the National Geograp ...
docudrama
Docudrama (or documentary drama) is a genre of television and film, which features dramatized re-enactments of actual events. It is described as a hybrid of documentary and drama and "a fact-based representation of real event".
Docudramas typic ...
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 (U.S. TV channel), National Geographic. The series c ...
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