remember the dot-com boom of the late 90’s?
and do you remember the subsequent dot-com bust of the early 00’s? i keep thinking about how oddly ironic it is that all of these dot-com companies were creating on-line products for an on-line constituency who at the time had slow dial-up modems.
and now that everyone has high-speed modems almost all of the dot-coms have disappeared. five years ago doing business over the interweb seemed absurd, because accessing the interweb through a slow-ass dial-up modem was so, well, slow.
ironic that all of the dot-com companies existed when none of us could use them, and now that we could use them they don’t exist. which leads me to think that there might be another dot-com flourishing just around the corner.
cos back in the late 90’s the internet was still a novelty for most people. and now it’s a tried-and-true, regular part of just about everyone’s daily life.
so my hope is that the dot-com’s will come back and be less frivolous and a little less avaricious and actually focus on providing services that people need. then they might have the chance of actually being successful. cos haven’t the remaining dot-com’s done pretty well?
no?
si?
maybe all of the out of work dot-commer’s will have jobs again (minus the toilet-paper stock, hopefully). (‘toilet-paper stock’ being a simpson’s reference, by the way.).
ok, that’s it.
moby