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It'll get used eventually. Just like the fiber optic cables built during the dotcom bubble. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dot-com_bubble#Bubble_in_telecom http
by gruez 1y ago
It'll get used eventually. Just like the fiber optic cables built during the dotcom bubble.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dot-com_bubble#Bubble_in_telecom https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dot-com_bubble#Bubble_in_telec...
- TMWNN 1y agoInternet traffic kept growing throughout the dotcom bubble. That valuations got ahead of themselves didn't mean that there wasn't something real driving the hype.
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- ojbyrne 1y agoDoes fiber optic cable become obsolete? I don't really know. But I know servers do.
- khuey 1y agoFiber optic cable actually got better over time because multiplexing continued to improve. You could take dark fiber laid in the late 90s and put new transceivers at the ends and get much more bandwidth than anyone expected when the cable was laid.
- bashtoni 1y agoThere were many companies in the mid 2000s that were viable only because they bought networks at a fraction of the cost spent to build them.
- gscott 1y agoManhattan sized data center sells to OnlyFans at half-price
- mathiaspoint 1y agoYou don't think OF has an application for realtime photogrammetry?
- benterix 1y agoWell, combine that with holograms and you have a personalized strip club in your home.
- mathiaspoint 1y agoIn most states the women aren't allowed to completely strip so it would actually be better than a strip club.
- bcrl 1y agoData centers don't age as well as fibre optic cables.
- do_not_redeem 1y agoSounds like a redistribution of wealth from VC-backed companies, to viable businesses. I'm okay with that.
- jboggan 1y agoJust like the Purple Hearts made for the invasion of Japan https://www.historynewsnetwork.org/article/75-years-later-purple-hearts-made-for-an-invasion- https://www.historynewsnetwork.org/article/75-years-later-pu...