Hey what happened after December 1999? - ThreadSky | a Reddit-style client for Bluesky

moonshoterin.bsky.social•5 days ago

https://youtu.be/rQjDFrSTeJk?si=wIErKJS7Op6u4cyC

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lukethompson85.bsky.social•5 days ago

Netscape is currently my favourite browser!

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platinumque.bsky.social•5 days ago

No one mention the d o t c o m b u b b l e. You'll upset sam altman

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joebos617.bsky.social•6 days ago

what do you mean man the Yakuza franchise is a Sega Dreamcast exclusive right

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venividivincent.bsky.social•5 days ago

If our line is anything like this other line, we’re about to have SO much more line! 😮

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s-e-t-h.bsky.social•6 days ago

“There’s still money to be made before the bubble pops” is a wild argument for someone to make

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loreljoy.bsky.social•6 days ago

Ugh does this mean we still have 2.5 more years of people going on about AI?!

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mark.tomlin.tech•3 days ago

See a snow flake flying past me. Winter is coming.

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sethpartnow.bsky.social•6 days ago

Can’t dump without the pump.

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rimidar.bsky.social•6 days ago

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vcrsamurai.bsky.social•5 days ago

Yeah, what happens after that? Specifically, what happens around October of 2001?

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michaelmccarthy92.bsky.social•5 days ago

The world ended

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kaitensatsuma.bsky.social•5 days ago

How many people here can raise their hand and honestly explain to anyone born after 1990 "What the hell is Netscape?"

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kernelleak.bsky.social•5 days ago

It's what gave us a16z... 😨

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davidcorrect.bsky.social•5 days ago

I too can lay 2 unrelated graphs on top of each other.

No I have not heard of correlation vs causation, why do you ask?

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yotemcyoteface.bsky.social•5 days ago

So it explodes in 2028.

Aaand whoever gets the white house for 29 gets handed the broom.

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billbeaird.bsky.social•5 days ago

Netscape had utility…

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blandphilosophy.bsky.social•5 days ago

Only good things obviously

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kaiten9653.bsky.social•5 days ago

Feeling bullish about how ChatGPT compares to early days of MySpace on this here graph of social media's ascent.

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benjicardoso.bsky.social•6 days ago

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harrison-bergeron.bsky.social•5 days ago

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hopkinsth.bsky.social•6 days ago

I wasn't old enough to know what it was like in the dotcom bubble, but I have been wondering if it came with as much semi-religious end-times prophesying or is that new.

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wmblathers.bsky.social•6 days ago

Y2K was making some people crazy for some of that time, but people were mostly expecting chaos, not the rapture.

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hopkinsth.bsky.social•5 days ago

I remember some of the Y2K panic, enough to remember feeling anxious on New Year’s Eve 1999

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hopkinsth.bsky.social•5 days ago

The thing recently where they’re predicting that venture capitalists will be one of the few human labors left when AI takes over seems to admit that the current moment really is like so many before it. “It is the unwashed masses who must suffer so we continue to thrive”

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its-me-daveman.bsky.social•5 days ago

People literally thought the world was going to end, in the biblical sense

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unicorntickles.bsky.social•5 days ago

Everything got super awesome after that!

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nehpetssnikrep.bsky.social•5 days ago

Where did the money flee to?

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3fecta.bsky.social•6 days ago

Netscape launched the first of thirty versions that redefined the power rankings of tech permanently?

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stitchnbutters.bsky.social•5 days ago

Bingo. ChatGPT is https://Pets.com

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greybeard214.bsky.social•6 days ago

We don't know. It's been lost to history

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jordanrevon.com•6 days ago

ChatGPT isn't even on the NASDAQ, like what the fuck even is this chart lmao

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andreslucero.com•5 days ago

I think the idea is that companies in the NASDAQ composite benefit from using the new tech, so it’s sort of a proxy for showing the value of the underlying tech. That’s my interpretation anyway.

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mikekeating.bsky.social•6 days ago

its the NASDAQ in general, after the release of those two softwares

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captaincrankdat.bsky.social•6 days ago

yes but emergent tech companies notably go public waaaay later than they did then

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jacenat.bsky.social•5 days ago

This isn't the period you are looking for.

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sabrina420.bsky.social•6 days ago

9/11

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elvenmonk.bsky.social•5 days ago

I don't know if i can handle a second 9/11

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earlydeparture.bsky.social•6 days ago

So theres time to long and short!

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utilitylimb.bsky.social•6 days ago

so beautiful that they’re doing a second roaring 20s

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doomscroll.bsky.social•5 days ago

Surely the roaring 20’s rolled right into the roaring 30’s?

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22samurai.bsky.social•5 days ago

Finding a random curve pattern in history and overfitting your predictions to it.

“Look at this great trail!” Without showing the cliff.

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nedluddphd.bsky.social•6 days ago

A Short History of Financial Euphoria by John Galbraith is a good/short read and relevant to the current situation.

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wimmerben.bsky.social•6 days ago

ONLY THE NEXT QUARTER MATTERS

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gwiggs.bsky.social•6 days ago

Idk Ed, when I think of technological longevity I think of Netscape

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kraniumkracka.bsky.social•6 days ago

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evpok.love•5 days ago

ah yes, netscape, a famous case of something that definitely made billions in profit and persists to this day

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vriska.bsky.social•5 days ago

okay, i mean, https://firefox.com

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vriska.bsky.social•5 days ago

mozilla may not be profitable but there definitely is a browser in active development that can be traced directly back to netscape

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evpok.love•5 days ago

what does this have to do with the topic???

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vriska.bsky.social•5 days ago

netscape did sort of persist to this day. they completely blew up first but the browser does still basically exist

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evpok.love•5 days ago

i mean yeah, we're all well aware, and it still has nothing to do with what's discussed here!

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cullenskink.bsky.social•5 days ago

Unfortunately it's main persistent result is an egg-headed crypto-fascist venture capital bro who thinks every idea he and his friends have is brilliant.

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zerocard.bsky.social•6 days ago

Ah, Netscape, that internet powerhouse I haven't thought about since I started using Firefox in... 2006ish? Whatever happened to them? And why should ChatGPT be looking forward to that?

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solarparade.bsky.social•5 days ago

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kimmit1996.bsky.social•5 days ago

Republicans stole the Presidential election. From Gore.

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kaltenwinter.bsky.social•5 days ago

TBF Netscape was great, Microsoft just was a piece of shit and killed it

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ericpalicki.bsky.social•5 days ago

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dafrgama.bsky.social•5 days ago

tbf I agree that we should all be getting excited about the prospect of sam altman losing absolutely everything in about 30 months

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leyawn.bsky.social•6 days ago

there’s no way someone’s stupid enough to make this comparison positively right. lol

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edzitron.com•5 days ago

The answer will shock you

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leothelioniv.bsky.social•5 days ago

They all think they are smarter and will be able to cash out at the top.

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blackwjulie.bsky.social•5 days ago

"also, the hell's a Netscape?" anyone born in the last 20 years.

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lordofthe7s.bsky.social•5 days ago

I believe it was the end of history, so nothing happened after that.

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tylerontheinternet.bsky.social•5 days ago

One was a wild new frontier for the establishment of markets for capitalism to exploit, and the other is a couple of chat bots and scripts that don't even work or make any money. Close comparison, I grant you!!

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aobate.bsky.social•6 days ago

we're still riding high as far as I can remember. well, gotta go order more pet supplies from https://pets.com

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cwashington.bsky.social•6 days ago

That bubble is just growing and growing. Absolutely incredible.

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krainboltgreene.bsky.social•5 days ago

Three more years! Three more years! Three more years!

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unitedshoes.bsky.social•5 days ago

Only good things I assume?

I mean, I don't think I've heard the word "Netscape" this century, but that probably just means good things happened for the company, right?

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stevenlsjr.bsky.social•5 days ago

Although Netscape’s downfall has much less to do with the dotcom crash than it did Microsoft being an illegal monopoly. Although Netscape did end up founding Mozilla which is still very much alive

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shortstack122.bsky.social•5 days ago

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dflipse.bsky.social•6 days ago

I don’t remember, let me load up Netscape Navigator and find out.

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berfield.com•5 days ago

I seen to recall losing a LOT of money.

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leftski.bsky.social•6 days ago

"AI might be bigger than the internet itself". Spoken like a true shill.

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deriuslazur.bsky.social•5 days ago

Y2k bug

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menger-spongebob.bsky.social•2 days ago

shame the internet faded into obscurity over the following years. the world wide web could have lead to some interesting things.

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spamuel.bsky.social•5 days ago

How could AI ever be "bigger than the internet boom"? You mean that project that was built by half the global population?

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rrwscott.bsky.social•5 days ago

all a load of unqualified b.s. imo and/or decades off the mark for practical use, like most of the tech claims of the past half century... VR, cold fusion, gene therapy, etc.

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isaacdoublet.bsky.social•6 days ago

Ah they’re trying to do graph magic

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jonvirtes.bsky.social•6 days ago

No one ever knows what gain is for.

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aurelienmorel.bsky.social•5 days ago

AI bros be like:

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dilj.bsky.social•6 days ago

I remember reading a New Yorker article in about August 99, which overlaid the RCA share price 1929 against Netscape/AOL 1999. And then made the point that RCA took something like 20 years to get back to 1929 levels.

But web browsers are not radios, and AI is not web browsers.

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josiahstevenson.bsky.social•5 days ago

lol psychotic chart choice

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ahdok.bsky.social•5 days ago

"It's 75% as successful of a business as Netscape" is my new go-to description of ChatGPT.

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conatonc.bsky.social•6 days ago

I think a bunch of websites bought Super Bowl ads in January of 2000. That was probably the most significant tech thing that happened shortly after December 1999, right?

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