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people became millionaires writing html 30 years ago. there's been these shifts in the past.

• gitlinuxgreat 8mo ago
  People became billionaires from domain names in the dot com era.
  • trgn 8mo ago
    haha! do you know details, what domains?
    • simonw 8mo ago
      Mark Cuban sold broadcast.com to Yahoo for $5.7bn It was a bit more than a domain name - they had 330 employees and $13.5 million in revenue for a quarter - but that acquisition was definitely peak dot-com boom.
      • trgn 8mo ago
        thanks! i would love another bubble. i feel like tech has been in a corner for going on ten years now (covid spike was so brief). it's so concentrated in ai it sucks up everything.
      • fud101 8mo ago
        paul graham sold a bunch of buggy lisp macros to yahoo too for a few billion. Wild times.