No cellphones, no potbellies: Old Infosys canteen video sparks 1990s nostalgia online

An old video showing the Infosys canteen in Bengaluru during the 1990s has gone viral online, sparking waves of nostalgia across microblogging platform X for what many called the “golden era” of India’s IT industry.

The clip, posted on X by a user, shows young employees chatting over lunch and laughing. “Footage from Infosys canteen, Bangalore in the 1990s. Almost everyone in this is probably a multi-millionaire and settled abroad today,” said the caption. The video has since been viewed over four million times.

Many who entered the IT…