Dot.com to Dot.Bomb
The last thing I expected
from this class was a history lesson of the Internet boom and bust that
occurred in the 1990s to 2000s. It was still very interesting to hear about
something that had happened while I was still a baby and unable to comprehend
the things changing around me. I was born in 1991 and growing up have a vague
memory of some of the companies we learned about from CompuServ to AOL and even
Yahoo. I remember the countless amounts of AOL CDs that would be mailed to us
and remember cutting the CDs into stars and pretending to be a ninja. However,
seeing how all the events led to me turning AOL CDs into toys and hearing about
Amazon's humble beginnings puts a lot of things into perceptive. I believe the
biggest thing that caught me off guard was how Amazon came to be and what they
had to overcome to become established as they are now. Having grown up in the
technology boom it is hard for me to believe that the Internet was once seen as
a fad that would disappear once the excitement about it died out. However we
know that the Internet is here to stay. I believe the biggest thing is the
gratitude I had gained from learning of how in the early 90s it was because of
the big five companies, Prodigy, CompuServ, Genie, AOL, and Delphi were all
part of developing the Internet into what it is today. Sadly one by one these
companies faced their tragic end, and in class Professor Fry, compared these
companies to the humble dinosaurs who were once giants that roamed the Earth
untouchable at their respective time, but with the environment of the market changing
so drastically as quickly as it did these companies faced their end just like
how the dinosaurs faced their end once the asteroid hit the planet and changed
the environment so drastically they were unable to adapt, and became extinct.
All that now remains is the fossils that we hold in museums and stare at in
awe, of a time that existed once upon a time ago.
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