There was a moment prior to the dot-com boom where The New Hawtness was "Multimedia Gulch", which was premised on the obviously huge market for interactive CDs:

There was a moment prior to the dot-com boom where The New Hawtness was "Multimedia Gulch", which was premised on the obviously huge market for interactive CDs: <https://www.sfgate.com/business/article/Making-sense-of-Multimedia-Gulch-3060560.php https://www.sfgate.com/business/article/Making-sense-of-Mult...> Roughly 1994--1999. Rapidly eclipsed by Internet 1.0.