Etoys.com and its rapid rise and fall The litigation around its demise took more than 13 years to settle

If the warning signs from AI have got you down, why not take a trek down memory lane and check out one of the implosions of the dotcom era? It was 28 years ago today that etoys dot com was founded. #retrocomputing #dotcomera dfarq.homeip.net/etoys-com-an...

#DarkFiber #TechSecrets #InternetInfrastructure #FutureTech #DotComEra #HiddenNetworks (3/3)

. A testament to tech's unpredictable growth and the value of forward-thinking infrastructure! #DarkFiber #TechSecrets #QuantumCommunication #InternetInfrastructure #DotComEra #FutureTech (2/2)

U.S. Stocks Are Now Pricier Than They Were in the Dot-Com Era - The Wall Street Journal U.S. Stocks Are Now Pricier Than They Were in the Dot-Com Era  The Wall Street Journal

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Ebay's 1995 debut It started out as a Labor Day weekend project to sell some unwanted stuff online

30 years ago today, the eBay domain name was registered. But that does NOT mean the famous auction site launched that day. What we have here is a case of a side project becoming the main project. #retrocomputing #dotcomera dfarq.homeip.net/ebays-1995-d...

How Mark Cuban became rich Yahoo shut down his startup just three years later.

26 years ago tomorrow, Yahoo bought Mark Cuban's dotcom-era startup, broadcast.com, for $4.6 billion. Like many startups, it wasn't making money yet. But the deal made Mark Cuban a billionaire. He sold at just the right time. #RetroComputing #DotComEra dfarq.homeip.net/how-mark-cub...

AOL history During the dotcom era, AOL was considered almost a blue chip stock

During the dotcom era, some people regarded AOL as the safest investment of all the 90s tech stocks. It was a somewhat older company, was an Internet provider, and gave a healthy return. For a while at least. #retrocomputing #dotcomera #techinvesting #nostalgiatech dfarq.homeip.net/aol-history/

Deja News: Google's first acquisition Before Reddit, before Stack Overflow, there were Usenet Newsgroups.

24 years ago this week, Google made its first acquisition, a Usenet archive called Dejanews. I was a regular. In this blog post I tell you where Google hides that treasure trove of information from long before Reddit. #retrocomputing #dotcomera #webhistory #usenet dfarq.homeip.net/deja-news-go...

Wayback Machine captures of the Blockbuster video rental site on December 24, 1996 and January 17, 2025.

Remember Blockbuster? 📼📀 Once, there were over 9,000 stores across the globe; now only one remains. 🌎️ Blockbuster․com too is a shadow of its former self.
Explore the web's past with the #WaybackMachine ➡️ https://web.archive.org

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