I was a teenage Pitchfork writer and reviewed about 30 albums for the site in 2000, and then was quickly fired, years before they were paying anyone or there was any real prestige in the gig. I shared some of my memories of Pitchfork 1.0 with Nitish Pawha for Slate's oral history of Pitchfork, alongside lots of people who had much longer and happier tenures with the site.