Post B0b3DPllBbV9t721Vw by ShaulaEvans@zirk.us
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(DIR) Post #B0b06FoVVFll7aD76u by mcnado@mstdn.social
2025-11-25T04:36:30Z
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A lot of people have apparently never heard of the dot com crash, and it shows.
(DIR) Post #B0b06HRtQIruC1e58i by ricci@discuss.systems
2025-11-25T06:38:23Z
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@mcnado nah they remember that there were a few people who made out fine despite the crash, and they think they are going to be those people
(DIR) Post #B0b3DPllBbV9t721Vw by ShaulaEvans@zirk.us
2025-11-25T04:37:51Z
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@mcnado Or the Tulip Bubble for that matter.
(DIR) Post #B0bFKbZitDKRypb2qO by strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz
2025-11-25T09:27:08Z
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@drwho > A lot of people were born well after Dotcom Bubble 2.0 and have never heard of it. Or the first oneThere was more than one? Details? One of my siblings is only a couple of years younger than me, but he'd never heard of the DotCom crash. I had to give him a whistlestop tour of the history and how it compares to the current bubble.This one is much, much worse. For reasons explored in some detail, with context, by Cory Doctorow and Ed Zitron;https://craphound.com/news/2025/10/25/enshittification-with-ed-zitron-at-the-seattle-public-library/@mcnado
(DIR) Post #B0f0oO7OlTs8FfvnHs by strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz
2025-11-27T05:05:12Z
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@drwho > the first one, which started in 1998 and popped in early 2000That's the only one I remember. What was the other one?@mcnado @randomgeek
(DIR) Post #B0f1HoKEPHvTvfxnWa by strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz
2025-11-27T05:10:00Z
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@drwho > Dotcom 2.0 started almost immediately afterward. It had to do with online sales and gen 1 enterprisey softwareHuh. Being a rabid anticapitalist in my early 20s at that point, that stuff completely escaped my attention. Out of curiosity, why do you frame this as 2 bubbles, rather than as 1 that a couple of pops to completely burst?@mcnado
(DIR) Post #B0gOfmIa5MkehJY68u by strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz
2025-11-27T21:07:15Z
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@drwho Fair cop. Incredible that I never heard anything about it, even though I was already heavily online by then. But as I say, I was paying much less attention to business news back then.@mcnado
(DIR) Post #B0gSCkPkPd6cGvJW8O by strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz
2025-11-27T21:46:51Z
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@drwho > Got caught in both of themOof. Sorry to hear that.@mcnado
(DIR) Post #B0gjb3Tus3VlZwRLvs by strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz
2025-11-28T01:01:44Z
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@drwho > It's life. Everything's disposable, from me to entire companiesEven if it's always been thus and always will be - and I don't think it has or will - that doesn't make it right. It certainly doesn't immunise people against the way being treated like we're disposable makes us feel.@mcnado
(DIR) Post #B0ikOR9q1LUXVyW2Bk by strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz
2025-11-29T00:20:03Z
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@drwho > Only that it was the situationFor now ; )@mcnado