#dot com boom

[lizardsfromspace]

Enjoying all the people trying to TAKE DOWN cynical takes comparing all the crypto ads in 2022's Super Bowl to all the Dot-Com ads in 2000's Super Bowl & in the process revealing that they. Have no idea what "Dot Com" actually means

Like hohoho, you say Dot Coms fell, but you're posting this on Twitter, on your iPhone, and posting on Insta and-

None of those were? Dot Coms? Apple is a hardware company from the 70s, and the others came about years after the Dot Com boom.

Like, "Dot Com" doesn't...mean...all online commerce. They aren't saying internet shopping fell somehow. It specifically means the massive wave of e-commerce businesses in the late 90s and early 00s where terrible ideas got outrageous funding, or good ideas (a lot of modern delivery apps have Dot Com precursors) expanded too quickly, only to inevitably fail. Like, a lot of them spent that funding on ads and vanished after.

It's just funny that one of crypto-nerd's rationalizations is rewriting the Dot Com boom to be some kind of rejection of the internet, Dot Com to just be any commerce website, and to see the continued popularity of any internet business as somehow evidence that Dot Coms never experienced a "fall"

Also the Dot Com ads had sock puppets in them while the crypto ads are universally smug and even defensive so, Dot Coms stay winning

[seriously-mike]

Who the fuck needs a "Personalized AI Video Agent"?

Once again I get the feeling that the current AI boom replays the same mistakes that we have already witnessed during the dot-com boom. They're trying to build AI-based applications for the dumbest, most useless bullshit that looks good on paper. The corporate shills peddle all sorts of great replacement theories from event stages, dumb media vultures and self-proclaimed doom prophets eat them up and shit them out exactly the same But As A Bad Thing™. And when the product lands, it turns out to be absolute garbage obvious to anyone who isn't hype-drunk.

I told you multiple times that I'm putting my both arms deep into that stuff for science, shits and giggles. Just to see if the things that I can make sense of can be broken in amusing ways. Unfortunately, a lot of things don't make sense to me or are priced a long way out of acceptable "science, shits and giggles" range, and I don't intend to commit to any of it without a good reason.

And so, an AI company whose product I've tested sent yet another advertising e-mail. How about you have a PAL? A "Personalized AI Video Agent"? You know, for corporate bullshit and feigning work, like taking notes, taking orders, basically any customer-facing stuff where people usually already unionized and are demanding a decent minimum wage. The stuff that, as we already learned, doesn't work. The stuff at an unreasonable, unsustainable scale that will go bust first because nobody will be able to afford to run it if the tech even works.

Much like in the case of dot-com boom, people sorely lack the know-how, the tech lacks capabilities, and the resulting product sorely lacks use cases. So how is it going to end? With Google's AI search assistant hanging there at the top of the already enshittified search results for decades to come, Amazon renting out compute to every desperate schmuck, weird projects intended for local installs on GitHub and more custom hacks of Chinese data models on HuggingFace than you can shake a crysknife at in impotent anger. But hey, maybe someone ends up in prison for scamming the investors. And Twitter gets sold for two million dollars, hardware and all, to someone more reasonable.

[btcmanager]

Head of Research at BitWise: Most Cryptos "Will Die"

Head of Research at BitWise: Most Cryptos "Will Die"

Matt Hougan, the head of research at BitWise, has declared that the crypto bubble will burst soon and that 95 percent of cryptos will die, in a February 5, 2019 interview with Bloomberg. Bubble Burst While most people outside the cryptoverse are most familiar with giants like bitcoin and ...

https://btcmanager.com/head-of-research-at-bitwise-most-cryptos-will-die/?utm_source=Tumblr&utm_medium=socialpush&utm_campaign=SNAP

[forensic-files-screenshots]

Season 6 Episode 6: Fire Dot Com  

[asummerofstories]

4/5

The late 1990s were host to a unique phenomenon that infected the stock market and reached fever pitch before a dramatic collapse. The dot-com bubble saw a wave of the first websites that were soon to be abandoned. The bubble brust when the line between reality and fantasy blurred.

‘Totally Wired’ tells of stock market speculation, the parties the dot-com billionaires hosted, the companies and the offices that set off the boom. Andrew Smith explores this event with the story of Josh Harris - the elusive early dot com entrepreneurs. 

Harris disappeared following the 2000 crash of the boom - Smith tracked him down in Ethiopia unsure of what to expect from their interactions. With vague messages and odd requests it was not entirely clear where the journey would lead.  Harris founded Pseudo and sought to change the way the world viewed entertainment. He broadcast his life to the world letting them watch everything from eating breakfast to sleeping. His story is telling of the dot-com bubble that had taken over the markets. 

Smith tells the story of this perplexing event in an engaging and charming way delving into the forgotten characters and discarded websites. ‘Totally Wired’ is a dizzying, funny and entertaining read.  

[musicjehad]

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