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> "The internet could bear out, but it seems a lot of hype to me" --Many, many people in 1997.

There was a LOT of hype around "this is an entire new economic model". While, yes, digital products have zero marginal cost, people were talking as if profits and revenue didn't matter.

This was also WAY before the famous Silicon Valley "pure play" scene. [0]

0 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BzAdXyPYKQo

parent alexpotato 5 days ago

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