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  1. 🚀 Ah, the glory days of #VA #Linux, where selling dreams of penguins 🐧 on servers led to the dotcom era's biggest #IPO circus. A model so groundbreaking it's now a relic of tech fossils 🦖. Who knew Linux could cause such a stock market comedy show? 😂
    dfarq.homeip.net/va-linux-the- #LinuxHistory #DotcomEra #TechFossils #StockMarketComedy #HackerNews #ngated

  2. 26 years ago tomorrow, Yahoo bought Mark Cuban's dotcom-era startup, broadcast.com, for $4.6 billion. Like many startups, it wasn't making money yet. But the deal made Mark Cuban a billionaire. He sold at just the right time. #RetroComputing #DotComEra dfarq.homeip.net/how-mark-cuba

  3. During the dotcom era, some people regarded AOL as the safest investment of all the 90s tech stocks. It was a somewhat older company, was an Internet provider, and gave a healthy return. For a while at least. #retrocomputing #dotcomera #techinvesting #nostalgiatech dfarq.homeip.net/aol-history/

  4. 24 years ago this week, Google made its first acquisition, a Usenet archive called Dejanews. I was a regular. In this blog post I tell you where Google hides that treasure trove of information from long before Reddit. #retrocomputing #dotcomera #webhistory #usenet dfarq.homeip.net/deja-news-goo