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People were making equivalent accusations of vaporware when the dot com bubble burst but 20 years later and many winners have emerged from that era in addition
by evv555 4y ago
People were making equivalent accusations of vaporware when the dot com bubble burst but 20 years later and many winners have emerged from that era in addition to new ones.
- dragontamer 4y agoI lost all my paper money at that time trading Ask Jeeves. The Dot-com bubble was my "test run", when I was learning stocks, paper-trading, and getting into finance. I very much was alive during that time. If you didn't live during that time, then you wouldn't know anything of that era. Yahoo was the #1 search engine. No one cared much about Google. Amazon was a book store. Ebay was far bigger than Amazon for general purpose goods. Webvan was your hope at making the internet mainstream. Etc. etc. The biggest "internet" company was either AOL or Netscape IMO. Neither of them really the winner over the next 20 years. --------- If you lived in that era, you would know just how unlikely it was that you'd have picked Amazon or Google out of the ashes. Chances are, you would have been caught up with Enron and Worldcom's schemes, just like everyone else was.