Nobody said that back then, no. They said there had been an over-exuberant market with people throwing stupid money at any old idea, but nobody was saying "the internet is a bust" or even "we don't know the use-cases" because there were a ton of other useful, successful things going on with it.
You said it yourself - you're too young to actually know a lot about that, but you use it to bolster your arguments anyway.
You said it yourself - you're too young to actually know a lot about that, but you use it to bolster your arguments anyway.