We’re In The Middle Of A Terrible Blubble

Re:We’re In The Middle Of A Terrible Blubble by rdtsc on Sunday April 24, 2011 @07:07AM (#2478653)

> Name one service during the dot-com era with anything approaching that number.

200M site users in 1999? Are you serious? Was there even a total of 200M online in US for all the sites combined at that time? I doubt it. If you judge by that you'd have to scale it accordingly somehow.

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Re:We’re In The Middle Of A Terrible Blubble by jsmcgd on Sunday April 24, 2011 @09:04AM (#2478784)

You don't need to scale it some how. 200 million users isn't worth less today than 200 million users yesterday or tomorrow.

EDIT: actually if anything, 200 million users today are worth much more as people are much more likely to spend money online etc. A business's relative position in the online space doesn't affect how viable that business is.

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Re:We’re In The Middle Of A Terrible Blubble by streptomycin on Sunday April 24, 2011 @09:29AM (#2478811)

it does matter. if the rate of growth of US internet users was greater back then, then it could be assumed that internet based companies would grow faster.

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Re:We’re In The Middle Of A Terrible Blubble by PakG1 on Sunday April 24, 2011 @11:11AM (#2478961)

http://xkcd.com/605/

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