Sort of. I don't remember "wow, there will be infrastructure everywhere!". It was kind of more will they hurry up and build more infrastructure as it was serio

Sort of. I don't remember "wow, there will be infrastructure everywhere!". It was kind of more will they hurry up and build more infrastructure as it was seriously bad in 1999. I only had slow unreliable dial up. General broadband availability didn't happen till about a decade later and I still don't have fiber where I am in central London. That's one difference - people wanted internet access, were willing to pay and there was a shortage. This time they've built more LLM stuff than people really want and they have to shove it into everything for free.