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
#DotComEra #DigitalHistory #90snostaliga
Explore the web's past with the #WaybackMachine ➡️ https://web.archive.org
#DotComEra #DigitalHistory #90snostaliga
February 5, 2025 at 3:05 PM
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
#DotComEra #DigitalHistory #90snostaliga
Explore the web's past with the #WaybackMachine ➡️ https://web.archive.org
#DotComEra #DigitalHistory #90snostaliga
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...
Deja News: Google's first acquisition
Before Reddit, before Stack Overflow, there were Usenet Newsgroups.
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February 12, 2025 at 1:09 PM
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...
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/
AOL history
During the dotcom era, AOL was considered almost a blue chip stock
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March 19, 2025 at 12:34 PM
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/
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...
Ebay's 1995 debut
It started out as a Labor Day weekend project to sell some unwanted stuff online
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August 4, 2025 at 10:32 PM
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...
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...
Etoys.com and its rapid rise and fall
The litigation around its demise took more than 13 years to settle
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November 4, 2025 at 12:26 AM
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...
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...
How Mark Cuban became rich
Yahoo shut down his startup just three years later.
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March 31, 2025 at 12:53 PM
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...
The Dot Com Lesson
The internet didn’t die after the crash — it matured. AI will do the same.
#AI #DotComEra #TechBubble #TechTrends #ArtificialIntelligence #TerryAkinsPR #TAPR
The internet didn’t die after the crash — it matured. AI will do the same.
#AI #DotComEra #TechBubble #TechTrends #ArtificialIntelligence #TerryAkinsPR #TAPR
July 27, 2026 at 4:41 PM
The Dot Com Lesson
The internet didn’t die after the crash — it matured. AI will do the same.
#AI #DotComEra #TechBubble #TechTrends #ArtificialIntelligence #TerryAkinsPR #TAPR
The internet didn’t die after the crash — it matured. AI will do the same.
#AI #DotComEra #TechBubble #TechTrends #ArtificialIntelligence #TerryAkinsPR #TAPR
October 12, 2025 at 4:25 PM
. A testament to tech's unpredictable growth and the value of forward-thinking infrastructure! #darkfiber #techsecrets #quantumcommunication #internetinfrastructure #dotcomera #futuretech (2/2)
October 2, 2025 at 4:27 PM
. A testament to tech's unpredictable growth and the value of forward-thinking infrastructure! #darkfiber #techsecrets #quantumcommunication #internetinfrastructure #dotcomera #futuretech (2/2)
The world faces a pivotal moment reminiscent of 1994, balancing remarkable AI advancements against the potential for a major downturn. Will history repeat itself? #AI #TechTrends #DotcomEra
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November 3, 2025 at 9:00 PM
The world faces a pivotal moment reminiscent of 1994, balancing remarkable AI advancements against the potential for a major downturn. Will history repeat itself? #AI #TechTrends #DotcomEra
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