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there were so many 'waves', so many years apart, that I have a hard time lumping them all together. aol and yahoo, maybe. aol was much earlier, but they both h
by serf 2y ago
there were so many 'waves', so many years apart, that I have a hard time lumping them all together.
aol and yahoo, maybe. aol was much earlier, but they both hit max valuation at around the same 2000-01 period.
myspace hit max valuation at 05-06. 5 years might as well have been a century at that point in history with the amount of flux in that industry.
my first wave was the tail end of BBSs and the beginning of the walled gardens of compuserve and aol. a bit later came The Palace, The Well, and various other (incredibly formative and impactful) social cliques.
The social aspects was what separated the 'waves' for me, and the gradual shift from an idealist concept to something more corporate.
- ghaff 2y agoI had sort of forgotten but MySpace was really read-write web/web 2.0 era, i.e. post dot-bomb. There was really a whole wave of companies and behaviors, e.g. blogging, that weren't really part of the original dot-com era at all but the wave of the late 2000s companies.
- samatman 2y agoPurely as a matter of interest, Compuserve was founded in 1969 as a business offering time-sharing on minicomputers. It opened to the public in something very much like the form you're remembering in 1979. This later date is roughly contemporaneous with the first BBSes. I also remember Compuserve in the same mental slot as AOL and Prodigy, but it considerably predated them.