2008 wasn’t the collapse of the dom com bubble. That happened in 2002 or so. What happened in 2008 was the inevitable collapse of the banking and loan industry due to oversaturation of sub prime mortgages and the use of them by hedge funds as a way to cheat to industry and make shit tons of money off the backs of working class people.
Yes. They were two different crashes, I wasn’t implying they were the same. If anything the tech bubble from mid 1990 to 2000 was more “honest”, it just wasn’t going to last yet everyone invested in it. Unlike the 2008 crash of real estate that the banks knew was a problem but ignored. Dotcom was tech, but 2008 was more like the current AI money run, in the methodology of pumping it for money until it breaks.
It was a completely different world having several different search engines. Felt like you were actually on a discovery path. These days Google funnels you into Amazon products listings.
Yeah the one thign ai consistrntly does well is return more targeted search results than a browser.
WAAAAY back in the day, search engines functioned like a complicated Yellow Pages with indexed results and explorable categories. They encouraged you to find unique websites and seek out new perspectives and ideas. It wasn’t sustainable due to the volume of websites people make, but it was fun.
Search engines have been hot garbage for a while. If AI can at least shake that up, it would at least provide some competition and reason for these companues to try and innovate something.
I guess, if you count surviving it and having less competition. What did 2008 produce? Besides a stock reset for the rich.
2008 wasn’t the collapse of the dom com bubble. That happened in 2002 or so. What happened in 2008 was the inevitable collapse of the banking and loan industry due to oversaturation of sub prime mortgages and the use of them by hedge funds as a way to cheat to industry and make shit tons of money off the backs of working class people.
Yes. They were two different crashes, I wasn’t implying they were the same. If anything the tech bubble from mid 1990 to 2000 was more “honest”, it just wasn’t going to last yet everyone invested in it. Unlike the 2008 crash of real estate that the banks knew was a problem but ignored. Dotcom was tech, but 2008 was more like the current AI money run, in the methodology of pumping it for money until it breaks.
They received hundreds of billions of dollars in bailout funds. That really taught them a lesson!
Should have pulled themselves up by their bootstraps and saved for emergencies.
Maybe they ate less Avocado toast and that helped already.
It was a completely different world having several different search engines. Felt like you were actually on a discovery path. These days Google funnels you into Amazon products listings.
Yeah the one thign ai consistrntly does well is return more targeted search results than a browser.
WAAAAY back in the day, search engines functioned like a complicated Yellow Pages with indexed results and explorable categories. They encouraged you to find unique websites and seek out new perspectives and ideas. It wasn’t sustainable due to the volume of websites people make, but it was fun.
Search engines have been hot garbage for a while. If AI can at least shake that up, it would at least provide some competition and reason for these companues to try and innovate something.