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Re:Silicon Valley braces for the good times to end by gonzo41 on Saturday June 11, 2022 @10:19AM (#31704613)
Dotcom crash and then 9/11, it would have been wild to be in the heart of it at that time.
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Re:Silicon Valley braces for the good times to end by akhmatova on Saturday June 11, 2022 @10:25AM (#31704638)
It was pretty boring, actually. And no, you don't want to go back to the tooling and processor speeds of that time.
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Re:Silicon Valley braces for the good times to end by kaidon on Saturday June 11, 2022 @10:35AM (#31704712)
Mmmm... getting flashbacks working on Java (generics just came out!) BEA WebLogic projects in Eclipse on Windows XP, configuring cruise control for our ant builds on some ancient Dell desktop in a closet.

Honestly, some things have changed, while others have stayed very similar.

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Re:Silicon Valley braces for the good times to end by gonzo41 on Saturday June 11, 2022 @10:41AM (#31704769)
Everything you've mentioned I've had to support. The horrors of the past echo forward as business critical apps that know one really knows anymore.
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Re:Silicon Valley braces for the good times to end by ben174 on Saturday June 11, 2022 @10:27AM (#31704652)
Covid will be 1000x more impactful when looking back at the two events.
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Re:Silicon Valley braces for the good times to end by bigDinosaur on Saturday June 11, 2022 @10:44AM (#31704797)
Maybe, but 9/11 had profound consequences which I don't think we fully appreciate yet. For example, you can trace some of Putin's thinking (apparently) to the US response to 9/11 in terms of security and the hypocrisy of the West.

Contrast the effect of the Spanish Flu: it's just...not really considered important compared to what came a few years after. Covid may well be similar. We will see I suppose.

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