»Internetmeilenstein–Erste .com-Domain feiert 40. Geburtstag:
Vor 40 Jahren wurde die erste .com-Domain registriert - ein Meilenstein der Internetgeschichte. Symbolics.com markierte den Beginn der kommerziellen Nutzung des Internets, sechs Jahre vor dem Start des World Wide Web«
Ja, ja das Internet ist älter als viele es wahrhaben (wollen?). Auch für mich ist es jünger im Kopf als die Wahrheit ;)
It's a new year of Cybercultural, your favourite #InternetHistory indie website. This year I'll be focusing more on the dot-com era (1990s) and the terrible 2010s. You can expect 1 post per week going forward — subscribe for free via email or RSS.
Ok, onto this week's post: Multimedia Gulch in 1994, when CD-ROM designers lived fast in a time of slow modems! https://cybercultural.com/p/multimedia-gulch-1994/ #Multimedia #Dotcom
@brooke we've gone from Zillow to Carfax
at @ycombinator HackerNews
#DotComBubble #DotCom
Big Tech and #VCs will only change their #mindset when enough #startups and #investors go belly-up, which is being delayed by adding “AI” into everything at all possible.
My experience has been that VCs aren’t as creative as people think they are, and we’re experiencing a #DotCom crash in slow motion.
The difference is, there was a financial crisis in between which enabled the VC and Big Tech ecosystem to gain not only outsize mindshare, but also market share of the #economy.
5/6
I'm inclined to agree with this guy and I thought the title was going to say "than the crypto bubble". But hey I can go with the dot com bubble. Just remember that chewy.com is basically Pets.com twenty sometime years later, and Amazon is doing the same thing with food now as webvan.com tried back then.
Meanwhile just ask yourself how is AI going to make all these companies way more money to justify these sky high valuations?
https://fortune.com/2024/02/26/nvidia-ai-bubble-apollo-asset-manager-dotcom-artificial-intelligence/
"What Kind of Bubble is AI?" By @pluralistic
https://locusmag.com/2023/12/commentary-cory-doctorow-what-kind-of-bubble-is-ai/
@uncategory @tj @ZachWeinersmith @KewlCat
I keep going back to the #dotcom in my mind. It was fueled by this notion that if you could prime the pump hard enough, it would keep generating more & more value eternally. When you stripped away all the "New Economy" bullshit, you were basically looking at people who thought they could open up a magic money portal that would keep increasing the value forever - a financial perpetual motion machine.
The same logic underpins business plans around LLMs.
Arrived in Holland and found this targeted ad (I work on the web) just outside town: #dotcom
Dot-com
by Jay Hoffmann @jay_hoffmann
The Fall: “general bad news to minor layoffs to all-out corporate slayings.”
#DotCom #2000s #TheHistoryOfTheWeb
Chapter 11: Dot-Com (Part 1)
By Jay Hoffmann @Jayhoffmann
