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Have people ever laughed at the "dot com boom" of the late 90s? Not much to laugh at since it actually delivered on most* of its promises. It promised informat
by worrycue 3y ago
Have people ever laughed at the "dot com boom" of the late 90s? Not much to laugh at since it actually delivered on most* of its promises.
It promised information at your finger tips. The ability to communicate with people across the globe.
Even stuff like video and audio at the click of a button which had horrible quality issues at the time, no one doubt will become a thing eventually as bandwidth improved.
* The only thing that more or less bombed and faded away was VR. Remember VRML? Today, the company-formerly-known-as-FaceBook is going for round 2. So far it doesn't look good. Turns out the only thing VR is good for is video games - and all those games use their own proprietary technology to achieve their aims.
- sebzim4500 3y agoThey were absolutely laughing at it at the time the bubble popped, obviously now in hindsight they were just ahead of their time.
- duckmysick 3y agoYeah, the media and the public had a field day (years?) going after failed dot coms. Here's an example from Forbes in 2000, back when they were still a normal publication with journalists: > It was the beloved Pets.com sock puppet who coined the catchy slogan “Because pets can’t drive!” in the site’s omnipresent TV ads. Apparently they’re not good with credit cards either. Today the San Francisco-based site said that it will begin to wind down its operations, laying off 255 of its 320 employees. > Pets.com’s sock puppet was the unofficial mascot of e-commerce and had such a cult following that the site licensed a sock puppet line of merchandise in the spring. Unfortunately, it seems there was little correlation between the demand for plush sock puppet toys and the other products–think kitty litter and rawhide chew toys–that Pets.com sells.
- worrycue 3y agoThey made fun of the failed companies but don't think anyone made fun of the Internet as a whole. Today, Amazon pretty much "took over" Pets.com's business.