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Re:AI eats the world (Spring 26) [pdf] by hennell on Monday May 18, 2026 @10:01AM (#48180046)
? That appears to be arbitrary eras then arbitrary companies from that era. Do you think Amazon and Google disappeared after 2001? Do you think databricks is now bigger than IBM?

Change might be inevitable, but I'm not sure your list shows or proves that.

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Re:AI eats the world (Spring 26) [pdf] by throwaw12 on Monday May 18, 2026 @11:01AM (#48180836)
What I wanted to say is every era gave birth to something big.

AI era will get its own winners, but there will be some new big players as a result of this era I think

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Re:AI eats the world (Spring 26) [pdf] by AlecSchueler on Monday May 18, 2026 @10:46AM (#48180643)
> Do you think Amazon and Google disappeared after 2001?

I don't think that was implied at all, just that the context of the web is what allowed those companies to pop up.

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Re:AI eats the world (Spring 26) [pdf] by benedictevans on Monday May 18, 2026 @10:53AM (#48180744)
With each platform shift, some of the old players disappear and some of them become irrelevant - IBM is still with us but no one cares
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