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sosborn12/10/20252 repliesview on HN

A great example is the DotCom bubble. Wiped out a lot of capital but it really did transform the world.


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jonwinstanley12/10/2025

But also, a lot of the dot com companies that people invested in in 1999 went bust, meaning those specific investments went to zero even if the web as a whole was a huge success financially.

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bigstrat2003last Thursday at 5:59 AM

Yeah, but unlike LLMs the Internet was an actual useful technology.