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I've read arguments that the dot-com boom and bust caused a huge amount of internet infrastructure to be built out- which were still available for the post-cras
by roywiggins 10y ago
I've read arguments that the dot-com boom and bust caused a huge amount of internet infrastructure to be built out- which were still available for the post-crash companies to use for cheap, because all the capital costs had been paid for already (by the investors who lost everything in the crash).
- aab0 10y agoGoogle certainly benefited a ton from all the 'dark fiber' and the glut of bandwidth after the crash. Probably didn't make much of a long-term difference because it didn't solve the last-mile problem to consumers. ('We now have free terabyte/s bandwidth in between our datacenters!' 'Great. But all our customers are still connecting over 1mb/s DSLs. What do we do with it all?') And other countries which didn't build out so much have still done well in getting Internet connectivity done.