---
title: "Microserfs"
date: 2005-10-13
author: "Richard MacManus"
categories:
  - name: "ReadWriteWeb"
    url: "/category/readwriteweb.md"
tags:
  - name: "2005"
    url: "/tag/2005.md"
---

# Microserfs

[![microserfs](https://web.archive.org/web/20060508062039im_/http://www.readwriteweb.com/images/microserfs.gif)](https://web.archive.org/web/20060508062039/http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0060987049/103-3003357-4486217?v=glance)For the record, **I have** actually read [Microserfs](https://web.archive.org/web/20060508062039/http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0060987049/103-3003357-4486217?v=glance), by Douglas Coupland. Indeed just over a year ago [I wrote on my blog](https://web.archive.org/web/20060508062039/http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/002270.php) that Microserfs is my favourite Douglas Coupland book. I wasn’t in the room when Dave Winer talked to the others about it, leading [him to write this](https://web.archive.org/web/20060508062039/http://archive.scripting.com/2005/10/12#When:8:22:40PM):*“I’m over at the Web 2.0 Workgroup at Mike Arrington’s, and if you can believe this, none of these guys have read Microserfs. Totally 1.0. Unfuckingreal.”*I just thought I’d set the record straight, seeing as I’m a Literary Geek and my reputation is at stake here 🙂

*Originally published on ReadWriteWeb ([archived copy](https://web.archive.org/web/20020204040018/http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/microserfs.php))*