There were a lot of people in 1980 who didn't understand the internet until they got email in 1990 but that doesn't matter because that's not what we're talking

There were a lot of people in 1980 who didn't understand the internet until they got email in 1990 but that doesn't matter because that's not what we're talking about. We're talking about the dot-coms which were WEB companies not INTERNET companies. These two things are not the same and it most definitely the WEB and not the INTERNET that kicked off the bubble. It was web browsers and web servers and web languages and protocols powering web businesses. Not email. Not gopher. Not telnet. Not FTP. NOT THE INTERNET! THE WEB. I get it that this site is now filled with people who are too young to have lived this stuff, but are you also not the least bit curious about the history of your industry? Am I the one taking crazy pills!!