> After the dotcom bubble it was extremely common to hear it outright dismissed as never being useful for anything eBay, Amazon, Google, Yahoo etc were all aro

> After the dotcom bubble it was extremely common to hear it outright dismissed as never being useful for anything eBay, Amazon, Google, Yahoo etc were all around at the time and making serious money. Not sure who those people were but it was very obvious to most that the internet was here to stay.