At The Dawn Of Recorded Sound, No One Cared

Re:At The Dawn Of Recorded Sound, No One Cared by Banthum on Tuesday May 23, 2017 @04:20PM (#14404948)

Eh, I think the net boomed without needing online shopping. Lots of people were and are using the Net 99%-100% of the time for non-shopping purposes. The net boom drivers were:

-Email

-Funny cat pics/videos, etc. eBaumsWorld etc

-News/blogs/forums

-Online gaming

-Porn

-YouTube (see above)

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Re:At The Dawn Of Recorded Sound, No One Cared by digi_owl on Tuesday May 23, 2017 @06:59PM (#14406155)

Outside of email what you list largely came after the dot-coms bubble crashed.

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Re:At The Dawn Of Recorded Sound, No One Cared by eru on Wednesday May 24, 2017 @06:42PM (#14414021)

Porn was alive and well before. Forums as well. Blogs came later, if I remember right. Online gaming existed, but was much smaller (of course).

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Re:At The Dawn Of Recorded Sound, No One Cared by dragonwriter on Wednesday May 24, 2017 @06:48PM (#14414045)

Blogs were around long before, and the term "blog" to refer to them was even coined around the beginning of the .com bubble (1997) , not after the crash (2000-2002).

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Re:At The Dawn Of Recorded Sound, No One Cared by eru on Thursday May 25, 2017 @04:02PM (#14419745)

Thanks!

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