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  1. Ich hätte da einen schönen, kleinen Horrofilm für euch: youtu.be/WWaqSjWnmGo?si=rzgkEz

    23 Minuten Ökonomie der A"I"-Bubble [doch doch].

    #AI #economy #DotComBubble #Tech #finance

  2. Ich hätte da einen schönen, kleinen Horrofilm für euch: youtu.be/WWaqSjWnmGo?si=rzgkEz

    23 Minuten Ökonomie der A"I"-Bubble [doch doch].

    #AI #economy #DotComBubble #Tech #finance

  3. From Tulips to NFTs: The Long, Expensive History of Human Hype

    A Satire of Tulip Mania by Jan Brueghel the Younger, c. 1640. Public domain via Wikimedia Commons.

    Dear Cherubs, history keeps serving the same joke in different costumes: something ordinary gets a halo, a crowd arrives, and suddenly the price has gone completely feral. Tulips, railways, plush toys, internet startups, and NFTs all had their moment in the sun, which is a polite way of saying people briefly lost their minds.

    THE ORIGINAL HYPE CYCLE

    Tulip Mania in the Dutch Republic peaked around 1637, when rare bulbs became status symbols and speculation outran common sense. Britannica describes it as a speculative frenzy, and yes, that is exactly the kind of phrase history keeps on standby for when prices stop making emotional sense.

    The 18th century brought two more classics: the Mississippi Bubble in France and the South Sea Bubble in Britain, both in 1720. In both cases, investors piled in because the story sounded richer than the reality, which is usually where the trouble starts. Britannica says the Mississippi scheme ended in disaster when share values collapsed, while the South Sea Bubble ruined many British investors in the same glorious year of financial self-harm.

    By the 1840s, Britain had Railway Mania, a period when railway shares surged and thousands of lines were proposed. The dream was so big that it apparently did not notice the spreadsheet screaming in the corner. According to RailwayMania.co.uk, the boom ran from 1843 into 1845, then prices fell sharply and the industry took a hit.

    MODERN REMIX

    Fast-forward to the late 20th century and you get Pet Rocks and Beanie Babies, the retail equivalent of “wait, people paid how much for that?” The Washington Post reported that Pet Rocks sold 1.5 million units at $3.95 each, while History.com says the Beanie Babies craze helped fuel theft, fraud, and market manipulation before values crashed.

    Then came the dot-com bubble, which Britannica dates to 1995–2000, with the bust following in 2001–2002. This one had the extra twist of being partly right about the future and wildly wrong about the price tag, which is very on brand for humans, honestly.

    And then, of course, NFTs. Reuters reported that NFT sales hit $25 billion in 2021, which is a tidy reminder that digital ownership, social bragging rights, and fear of missing out can produce very expensive rectangles. As noted by thisclaimer.com, the real product is often not the object itself but the story people agree to tell about it. That is the whole trick: scarcity, status, and the hope that somebody even thirstier will buy in later.

    So yes, the names change, the packaging changes, and the century changes. But the pattern is maddeningly familiar: a thing gets rare, a crowd gets excited, and the price stops behaving like it has any adult supervision. That is the bubble, plain and simple. Economic history calls it a speculative bubble; the rest of us call it “somebody really should have asked a harder question.”

    Britannica — https://www.britannica.com/money/Tulip-Mania
    Britannica — https://www.britannica.com/money/Mississippi-Bubble
    Britannica — https://www.britannica.com/money/South-Sea-Bubble
    Railway Mania — https://www.railwaymania.co.uk/
    The Washington Post — https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2015/04/01/pet-rock-inventor-gary-dahl-dies-at-78/
    History.com — https://www.history.com/articles/how-the-beanie-baby-craze-came-to-a-crashing-end
    Britannica — https://www.britannica.com/money/dot-com-bubble
    Reuters — https://www.reuters.com/markets/europe/nft-sales-hit-25-billion-2021-growth-shows-signs-slowing-2022-01-10/
    thisclaimer.com — https://thisclaimer.com

    The Thisclaimer logo blends a classic warning symbol with a brain icon to represent critical thinking, curiosity, and thoughtful disclaimers. #beanieBabies #dotComBubble #marketMania #mississippiBubble #nfts #petRock #railwayMania #southSeaBubble #speculativeBubbles #tulipMania #viral
  4. Wall Street's Ascendancy Fueled by a Narrow Cohort, Echoes of Past Speculation Resurface

    US stocks like S&P 500 are up because of a few big tech companies. This is like the dot-com bubble. Is it safe?

    #StockMarket, #BigTech, #DotComBubble, #USStocks, #MarketAnalysis

    newsletter.tf/us-stocks-rise-f

  5. US stocks are rising, but only a few big tech companies are driving the gains. This is similar to the dot-com bubble, making many worry about the market's future.

    #StockMarket, #BigTech, #DotComBubble, #USStocks, #MarketAnalysis
    newsletter.tf/us-stocks-rise-f

  6. Allbirds’ Shift Toward AI Sparks Debate Over Familiar Tech Bubble Patterns

    📰 Original title: Allbirds' Move To AI Has Echoes of the Dot-Com Frenzy

    🤖 IA: It's not clickbait ✅
    👥 Usuarios: It's not clickbait ✅

    View full AI summary: killbait.com/en/allbirds-shift

    #business #ai #dotcombubble #stockvolatility

  7. Allbirds’ Shift Toward AI Sparks Debate Over Familiar Tech Bubble Patterns

    📰 Original title: Allbirds' Move To AI Has Echoes of the Dot-Com Frenzy

    🤖 IA: It's not clickbait ✅
    👥 Usuarios: It's not clickbait ✅

    View full AI summary: killbait.com/en/allbirds-shift

    #business #ai #dotcombubble #stockvolatility

  8. AI Boom Fizzle: A Contained Tremor, Not a Cataclysm, But Broad Reach Feared

    An AI market crash might not be as bad as the dot-com bubble, but index funds mean most investors could feel the effects. Find out why.

    #AIMarket, #StockMarket, #InvestmentTips, #DotComBubble, #IndexFunds

    newsletter.tf/ai-market-drop-a

  9. 4 Bloomberg’s John Authers: Gold’s trajectory in the last year looks startingly similar to the #Nasdaq Composite in the lead-up to the bursting of the #dot-combubble, which offers little comfort #gold

  10. 看到Dot-Com-bubble Wiki里的一段:

    在这种氛围下,许多投资者愿意忽视市盈率等传统指标,而将信心建立在技术进步之上,最终导致了股市泡沫 。995 年至 2000 年间,纳斯达克综合指数上涨了 400%。其市盈率一度高达 200 倍,远超 1991 年日本资产价格泡沫时期日经 225 指数 80 倍的峰值市盈率。1999 年, 高通股价飙升 2619%,另有 12 只大型股股价涨幅均超过 1000%,还有 7 只大型股股价涨幅均超过 900%。尽管纳斯达克综合指数上涨 85.6%, 标普 500 指数上涨 19.5%

    想到了一句话“天欲其亡,必先令其狂”。

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dot-com_

    #互联网泡沫 #dotcombubble

  11. 看到Dot-Com-bubble Wiki里的一段:

    在这种氛围下,许多投资者愿意忽视市盈率等传统指标,而将信心建立在技术进步之上,最终导致了股市泡沫 。995 年至 2000 年间,纳斯达克综合指数上涨了 400%。其市盈率一度高达 200 倍,远超 1991 年日本资产价格泡沫时期日经 225 指数 80 倍的峰值市盈率。1999 年, 高通股价飙升 2619%,另有 12 只大型股股价涨幅均超过 1000%,还有 7 只大型股股价涨幅均超过 900%。尽管纳斯达克综合指数上涨 85.6%, 标普 500 指数上涨 19.5%

    想到了一句话“天欲其亡,必先令其狂”。

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dot-com_

    #互联网泡沫 #dotcombubble

  12. Something I do find interesting with the popular fediverse wish of ultimate AI bubble dotcom bubble style implosion (slight exageration to summarize):

    The most common portfolios people are likely holding are unoptimized, usually single FTSE100/S&P500/MSCI World etc ETF portfolios (there might be some separate EM exposure, broad bond ETFs, some single-topic-funds etc., but in my experience people with those are already outliers).
    In the case of the "glorious AI implosion" those would see more than signifcant losses for likely a very substantial amount of time, likely often unbuffered by dividend payments as these portfolios effectively have more than substantial exposure to the central actors of the AI bubble.

    Given that a correction of that sector is indeed not unlikely to happen - what are the hedges and mitigations people have prepared for themselves for this risk scenario?
    A faint hope for diversification and dollar-cost-averaging to fix it until retiring age?

    #dotcombubble #dotcombubblecomparison #dotcombubblealloveragain #investing #etfs #aibubble #aibubbleburst #strategicpopcornreserves #hedging #mitigationstrategies #dollarcostAveraging #mag7 #faang

  13. "Now, I know what you’re thinking. Ed, isn’t that exactly what’s happening here? We’ve got overvalued startups, we’ve got multiple unprofitable, unsustainable AI companies promising to IPO, we’ve got overvalued tech stocks, and we’ve got one of the largest infrastructural buildouts of all time. Tech companies are trading at ridiculous multiples of their earnings-per-share, but the multiples aren’t as high. That’s good, right?

    No. No it isn’t. AI boosters and well-wishers are obsessed with making this comparison because saying “things worked out after the dot com bubble” allows them to rationalize doing stupid, destructive and reckless things.

    Even if this was just like the dot com bubble, things would be absolutely fucking catastrophic — the NASDAQ dropped 78% from its peak in March 2000 — but due to the incredible ignorance of both the private and public power brokers of the tech industry, I expect consequences that range from calamitous to catastrophic, dependent almost entirely on how long the bubble takes to burst, and how willing the SEC is to greenlight an IPO.

    The AI bubble bursting will be worse, because the investments are larger, the contagion is wider, and the underlying asset — GPUs — are entirely different in their costs, utility and basic value than dark fiber. Furthermore, the basic unit economics of AI — both in its infrastructure and the AI companies themselves — are magnitudes more horrifying than anything we saw in the dot com bubble.

    In simpler terms, I’m really fucking worried, and I’m sick and tired of hearing people making this comparison."

    wheresyoured.at/dot-com-bubble/

    #AI #GenerativeAI #LLMs #DotComBubble #AIBubble #VC #VentureCapital #BigTech

  14. "Now, I know what you’re thinking. Ed, isn’t that exactly what’s happening here? We’ve got overvalued startups, we’ve got multiple unprofitable, unsustainable AI companies promising to IPO, we’ve got overvalued tech stocks, and we’ve got one of the largest infrastructural buildouts of all time. Tech companies are trading at ridiculous multiples of their earnings-per-share, but the multiples aren’t as high. That’s good, right?

    No. No it isn’t. AI boosters and well-wishers are obsessed with making this comparison because saying “things worked out after the dot com bubble” allows them to rationalize doing stupid, destructive and reckless things.

    Even if this was just like the dot com bubble, things would be absolutely fucking catastrophic — the NASDAQ dropped 78% from its peak in March 2000 — but due to the incredible ignorance of both the private and public power brokers of the tech industry, I expect consequences that range from calamitous to catastrophic, dependent almost entirely on how long the bubble takes to burst, and how willing the SEC is to greenlight an IPO.

    The AI bubble bursting will be worse, because the investments are larger, the contagion is wider, and the underlying asset — GPUs — are entirely different in their costs, utility and basic value than dark fiber. Furthermore, the basic unit economics of AI — both in its infrastructure and the AI companies themselves — are magnitudes more horrifying than anything we saw in the dot com bubble.

    In simpler terms, I’m really fucking worried, and I’m sick and tired of hearing people making this comparison."

    wheresyoured.at/dot-com-bubble/

    #AI #GenerativeAI #LLMs #DotComBubble #AIBubble #VC #VentureCapital #BigTech

  15. The main difference between the #dotcombubble and the #aibubble is that websites were still useful after the bubble burst.

    #grandtheftautocomplete will always be shite.

  16. The main difference between the #dotcombubble and the #aibubble is that websites were still useful after the bubble burst.

    #grandtheftautocomplete will always be shite.

  17. La bulle Dot-Com (1995-2000) a vu des valorisations folles avant l'éclatement. Aujourd'hui, l'IA générative suscite un engouement similaire. L'histoire se répète-t-elle? Analyse des leçons passées pour naviguer l'avenir de l'IA.

    ⏩️ linkeaz.net/fr/posts/bulle-dot

    #HistoireDuWeb #Tech #DotComBubble #IA #TechHistory

  18. "Hội chứng sống sót thời Dotcom": Thành công ban đầu của Perl đã gieo mầm cho sự suy tàn của nó. Bài viết phân tích lý do nhiều kỹ sư vẫn ác cảm với Perl: môi trường phát triển hỗn loạn thời dot-com và sự nhầm lẫn về phiên bản (Perl 6/Raku). Dù Perl 5 hiện đại đã tiến bộ đáng kể, định kiến lịch sử vẫn bủa vây.
    #Perl #Programming #TechHistory #LegacyCode #DotcomBubble #LậpTrình #LịchSửCôngNghệ #CodeKếThừa #BongBóngDotcom

    dev.to/davorg/dotcom-survivor-

  19. Was machen wir eigentlich gegen die KI-Blase? Es gibt sie und sie wird platzen. Und wenn sie platzt, wird eine Hand voll extrem reicher Menschen viel viel reicher und viele viele einfache Menschen viel viel ärmer. Dazu kommen dann noch Jobverluste, ökonomische Probleme und mehr. Platzen lassen kann man die Blase eben nicht, da sonst genanntes passiert. Und die Blase "am Leben halten" würde den sicheren Downfall nur noch größer machen. Was also tun?

    #KI #AI #kiblase #aibubble #dotcombubble #dotcomblase #depol #intpol #techbros #openai #samaltman #nvidia #amd #llm #llms #digitalpolitik #netzpolitik

  20. For all those would-be investors throwing their money at all things AI related, I have three words.

    Dot-Com-Bubble

    That bubble burst in March 2000 leaving a ton of broke assed investors holding the bag.

    #ai #dotcombubble #investing #economy

  21. For all those would-be investors throwing their money at all things AI related, I have three words.

    Dot-Com-Bubble

    That bubble burst in March 2000 leaving a ton of broke assed investors holding the bag.

    #ai #dotcombubble #investing #economy

  22. I don’t miss the millenial dotcom boom for the grifters and career criminals.

    But I do miss it for another reason. IT talent was such strong currency at those times you could have a situation of an actual anarchist running the IT department like a syndicate for a while.

    Good times! 🙂

    #dotcombubble #itindustry

  23. I don’t miss the millenial dotcom boom for the grifters and career criminals.

    But I do miss it for another reason. IT talent was such strong currency at those times you could have a situation of an actual anarchist running the IT department like a syndicate for a while.

    Good times! 🙂

    #dotcombubble #itindustry

  24. 🤖 Oh, so after the AI boom, we're getting... what, a bunch of leftover algorithms and a wishful comparison to the dot-com bubble? 🌐 Because nothing screams "durable infrastructure" like a decade's worth of obsolete neural networks and half-baked chatbots. 😂 #InnovationFail
    blog.robbowley.net/2025/10/12/ #InnovationFail #AITrends #DotComBubble #TechHumor #NeuralNetworks #HackerNews #ngated

  25. 🤖 Oh, so after the AI boom, we're getting... what, a bunch of leftover algorithms and a wishful comparison to the dot-com bubble? 🌐 Because nothing screams "durable infrastructure" like a decade's worth of obsolete neural networks and half-baked chatbots. 😂 #InnovationFail
    blog.robbowley.net/2025/10/12/ #InnovationFail #AITrends #DotComBubble #TechHumor #NeuralNetworks #HackerNews #ngated

  26. 🤖 L’intelligenza artificiale è la nuova bolla dot-com? Un'interrogazione che suscita curiosità e dibattiti. Impressioni? #AI #DotComBubble

    🔗 tomshw.it/hardware/banchiere-p

  27. Is the AI spending frenzy just another dot-com bubble? Jim Cramer says no. He argues the AI surge is more like an industrial revolution, with strategic investments fueling real innovation and productivity across industries. This boom isn’t speculation; it’s foundational change. Dive deeper here: cnbc.com/2025/09/28/cramer-why #JimCramer #AI #industrialrevolution #technology #investing #dotcombubble

  28. This week on Cybercultural, we enter the year 2000. It started with a bang, with the AOL-Time Warner merger in January. But by March, a slow deflation of the dot-com bubble had begun. Also, Marc Andreessen returned with a new startup. cybercultural.com/p/dotcom-cra... #InternetHistory #dotcombubble

    The Dot-Com Crash of 2000 and ...

  29. This week on Cybercultural, we enter the year 2000. It started with a bang, with the AOL-Time Warner merger in January. But by March, a slow deflation of the dot-com bubble had begun (Fast Company magazine had an ill-timed cover that month: "Built to Flip: Forget 'great companies', get rich quick!" — photo in the post). Meanwhile, later in 2000 the Web's golden boy Marc Andreessen returned with a new startup. cybercultural.com/p/dotcom-cra #InternetHistory #dotcombubble

  30. This week on Cybercultural, we enter the year 2000. It started with a bang, with the AOL-Time Warner merger in January. But by March, a slow deflation of the dot-com bubble had begun (Fast Company magazine had an ill-timed cover that month: "Built to Flip: Forget 'great companies', get rich quick!" — photo in the post). Meanwhile, later in 2000 the Web's golden boy Marc Andreessen returned with a new startup. cybercultural.com/p/dotcom-cra #InternetHistory #dotcombubble

  31. Is the #GenerativeAI bubble about to burst?

    by Matthew Tyson, Aug 20, 2025

    Excerpt: "The AI money trap

    "We don’t have to look far for a more contrarian perspective. Economist Paul Kedrosky, for one, notes that capital expenditure on data centers has driven 1.2% of national GDP, acting as a kind of stimulus program. Without that investment, he writes, the US economy would be in contraction.

    "Kedrosky describes an 'AI #datacenter spending program' that is 'already larger than peak telecom spending (as a percentage of GDP) during the dot-com era, and within shouting distance of peak 19th century railroad infrastructure spending.'

    "Virtually all #AI spend flows into #Nvidia in one way or another. This is reflected in its recent valuation as the first publicly traded company to break $4 trillion in market capitalization (second up was #Microsoft).

    "To put that number in context, market observers such as Forbes described it as being greater than the GDP of Canada or the annual global spending on defense.

    "Nvidia alone accounts for more than 7% of the value of the S&P 500. AI gadfly Ed Zitron calls it the 'AI money trap.' "

    infoworld.com/article/4041556/

    #AI #AISucks #DotComBubble #DotCom #AICrash #Greed #NoWaterForAI

  32. Is the #GenerativeAI bubble about to burst?

    by Matthew Tyson, Aug 20, 2025

    Excerpt: "The AI money trap

    "We don’t have to look far for a more contrarian perspective. Economist Paul Kedrosky, for one, notes that capital expenditure on data centers has driven 1.2% of national GDP, acting as a kind of stimulus program. Without that investment, he writes, the US economy would be in contraction.

    "Kedrosky describes an 'AI #datacenter spending program' that is 'already larger than peak telecom spending (as a percentage of GDP) during the dot-com era, and within shouting distance of peak 19th century railroad infrastructure spending.'

    "Virtually all #AI spend flows into #Nvidia in one way or another. This is reflected in its recent valuation as the first publicly traded company to break $4 trillion in market capitalization (second up was #Microsoft).

    "To put that number in context, market observers such as Forbes described it as being greater than the GDP of Canada or the annual global spending on defense.

    "Nvidia alone accounts for more than 7% of the value of the S&P 500. AI gadfly Ed Zitron calls it the 'AI money trap.' "

    infoworld.com/article/4041556/

    #AI #AISucks #DotComBubble #DotCom #AICrash #Greed #NoWaterForAI

  33. 1/ Back in the ‘90s, every company wanted a “.com” in their name. Today, it’s “AI-powered.” Hype drives valuations—$100B+ poured into AI in 2024, like the dot-com frenzy. But is it all hot air? #DotComBubble #AIHype

  34. 🚀🤪 "Web3 #onboarding was the next big thing," they said, as they handed out seedphrase keychains like they were party favors from the '90s dotcom bubble. Fast forward to 2025, and surprise! 🎉 Turns out no one wants to collect digital ghost towns; they just want dollars that text like teenagers. Keep counting those #wallets, folks! 🦗💸
    tomhadley.link/blog/web3-onboa #Web3 #DotcomBubble #DigitalAssets #HackerNews #ngated

  35. 🚀🤪 "Web3 #onboarding was the next big thing," they said, as they handed out seedphrase keychains like they were party favors from the '90s dotcom bubble. Fast forward to 2025, and surprise! 🎉 Turns out no one wants to collect digital ghost towns; they just want dollars that text like teenagers. Keep counting those #wallets, folks! 🦗💸
    tomhadley.link/blog/web3-onboa #Web3 #DotcomBubble #DigitalAssets #HackerNews #ngated

  36. Ah yes, another 'I survived the dot-com bubble and all I got was this lousy article' tale. 🎈💥 Who knew that raising 60 million might come with a side of existential crisis? 🤯 But fear not, dear reader, for Brian's here to save #capitalism one #burnout at a time! 🚀
    upgradingcapitalism.substack.c #dotcombubble #existentialcrisis #article #HackerNews #ngated

  37. Ah yes, another 'I survived the dot-com bubble and all I got was this lousy article' tale. 🎈💥 Who knew that raising 60 million might come with a side of existential crisis? 🤯 But fear not, dear reader, for Brian's here to save #capitalism one #burnout at a time! 🚀
    upgradingcapitalism.substack.c #dotcombubble #existentialcrisis #article #HackerNews #ngated

  38. 🎈 Oh, look! Another nostalgic trip down memory lane by #gramps from the Silicon Underground reminiscing about the good ol' days of the dotcom bubble, when tech stocks were as inflated as a clown's balloon animal. 🎈 No groundbreaking insights here, just a reminder that some people are still stuck in 2000 while the rest of us moved on. 🤷‍♂️
    dfarq.homeip.net/when-the-dotc #nostalgia #techbubble #memorylane #dotcombubble #HackerNews #ngated

  39. 🎈 Oh, look! Another nostalgic trip down memory lane by #gramps from the Silicon Underground reminiscing about the good ol' days of the dotcom bubble, when tech stocks were as inflated as a clown's balloon animal. 🎈 No groundbreaking insights here, just a reminder that some people are still stuck in 2000 while the rest of us moved on. 🤷‍♂️
    dfarq.homeip.net/when-the-dotc #nostalgia #techbubble #memorylane #dotcombubble #HackerNews #ngated

  40. 39 years ago, Microsoft held its very successful IPO. Microsoft didn't need the money, but were essentially forced into it. It made Bill Gates filthy rich and put Microsoft on the map. The search for the next Microsoft led to the dotcom bubble. #MicrosoftIPO #BillGates #TechHistory #DotcomBubble #RetroComputing #SiliconValley #StartupCulture #1980sTech #TechMilestones dfarq.homeip.net/microsofts-19

  41. 39 years ago, Microsoft held its very successful IPO. Microsoft didn't need the money, but were essentially forced into it. It made Bill Gates filthy rich and put Microsoft on the map. The search for the next Microsoft led to the dotcom bubble. #MicrosoftIPO #BillGates #TechHistory #DotcomBubble #RetroComputing #SiliconValley #StartupCulture #1980sTech #TechMilestones dfarq.homeip.net/microsofts-19

  42. By Fred Vogelstein and Om Malik @Onmyom:

    """
    the technology revolutions that followed five years after 1996 and 2007 reshaped [..] business and society at large.

    Without the leverage of the free open source software on generic x86 servers, you don’t get [..] Google, Amazon, and Meta.

    Without cheap hard drives to go into iPods, and cheap broadband to download music, you don’t get Apple's resurgence.
    """

    crazystupidtech.com/archive/wh