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Dotcom companies were basically stuff like pets.com, not things considered strategic with de-facto government backing.

• oblio 11mo ago
  Cisco was very much not "stuff like pets.com". Most of the money lost in the dotcom crash wasn't in pets.com, it was the infrastructure companies like Cisco and Sun.
  • Bluecobra 11mo ago
    Funnily enough Cisco’s stock has recently recovered back to its dotcom peak.
    • bigbuppo 11mo ago
      Thanks to the irrational exuberance of the AI bubble...
  • zorked 11mo ago
    Cisco did not go bust.
    • oblio 11mo ago
      And I didn't say it went bust.