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Yes I didn't see a single .com name a stadium or bowl game or have most of the super bowl ads in 1999 at all, none at all. Oh wait yes I did, literally every su
by grogenaut 4y ago
Yes I didn't see a single .com name a stadium or bowl game or have most of the super bowl ads in 1999 at all, none at all. Oh wait yes I did, literally every superbowl ad was a dot com right before the .com bust. https://www.cnbc.com/2010/01/20/The-Stadium-Curse:-Naming-Deals-Gone-Bust.html https://www.cnbc.com/2010/01/20/The-Stadium-Curse:-Naming-De... puts a nice writeup of all the comapnies that went under after naming stadiums, there's quite a few from the .com bust. Aah WorldCom how I miss thee. Pets.com as well.
- Ancapistani 4y agoPlaying Devil’s Advocate here a bit: what’s the size of the tech industry today, compared to the heights just before the “.com bust”? Maybe there is room for one more boom cycle.
- Spooky23 4y agoGood point. Most of the B2B sites that died in 1999 are valid ideas that were too early. Intel tried cloud computing. Online grocery is a thing now, etc.