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Yes. The dotcom boom of 1999-2000 was something to observe. Things were getting ridiculous. Like a food delivery company (Webvan?) planning to seed the US with
by atemerev 4y ago
Yes. The dotcom boom of 1999-2000 was something to observe. Things were getting ridiculous. Like a food delivery company (Webvan?) planning to seed the US with thousands newly built warehouses and logistics centers, and hiring freaking Bechtel to do that (didn’t end well, of course).
And before that, there was a tail of previous AI hype cycle. I remember training an actual neural network on IBM PC 80286, as our school competition project, back in 1992.
And before that, the minicomputers boom, but I’m not old enough to remember it. VAXen and Usenet, this sort of thing.
Hype cycles are the natural state of affairs in tech.