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I was just thinking about the dotcom boom & bust earlier, so good call on pets dot com
I mean, at least it's been >20 years
now I want someone to do a hobbits "but what about second dotcom bust?!" thing
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@lori @idlestate I had completely forgotten about pets.com ... I remember specifically what I was working on in that time frame, cause it was pretty cool even if the startup doing it failed... Universal DB drivers w/ on the fly syntax translation. Yeah, sure, it had some bugs... Like actually returning all the rows in a count query on Informix and then actually counting the rows and returning the result.. But.. The idea was cool, and there was some sweet distributed logic/architecture for it. @lori @idlestate oof, yeah, I remember when "internet years" was a running joke and any website that lasted more than two years was positively ancient.  @varve @idlestate even though myspace is technically around still in some weird form, it was only really relevant to anyone for maybe 5 years. Meanwhile I have had a Twitter account (now 99% dormant because I'm here) for 14 years. |
@idlestate I think part of our problem online is how many grown adult netizens are too young to remember pets dot com and think the internet they know is how it's always been and will never change
The writing on the wall is that it's all about to collapse. Reddit, Twitter, Facebook, Discord...it's breaking down fast.
Meanwhile older folks grew up when corporate social sites didn't last that long to begin with.