alt Hacker News> What happened the last time that everything changed?
* Hardware era (pre 1995s) -> IBM, Intel, Microsoft, Apple
* Internet era (1994-2001) -> Amazon, Google, Meta, Salesforce
* Mobile era (iPhone+ era) -> Uber, Mobile Games, Youtube, Snapchat, Tiktok, Airbnb
* Cloud era (AWS+ era) -> AWS, GCP, Azure, Snowflake, Databricks and bunch of other data & database startups
AI era (ChatGPT+ era) -> Change is inevitable
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hennell • today at 2:01 PM
? That appears to be arbitrary eras then arbitrary companies from that era. Do you think Amazon and Google disappeared after 2001? Do you think databricks is now bigger than IBM?
Change might be inevitable, but I'm not sure your list shows or proves that.
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jaccola • today at 1:40 PM
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percivalskunk • today at 3:29 PM
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Nice breakdown! I would separate the Hardware era between Mainframe era and PC era. I would extend Internet era a bit more, Perhaps 2007 when the IPhone was released.
Edit: I hadn't seen the original presentation yet. I see that Evans already divided the eras like I suggest above.