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Re:Steve Wozniak cheered after telling students they have AI... by skinfaxi on Friday May 22, 2026 @09:52AM (#48235882)
> The crash didn’t make the internet go away, but it damped the hype and blind, unchecked optimism that was leading to some rather short-sighted decisions.

The crash did not make the internet go away. I don't foresee a world where we will go back to the pre-AI times either. In the same way that post dotcom crash, you would be a fool to not have your business online, I think we will find similar things to be the case around AI. Even if the bubble bursts AI is here to stay and that will have major consequences for labor.

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Re:Steve Wozniak cheered after telling students they have AI... by itsalwaysgood on Friday May 22, 2026 @10:02AM (#48236005)
The irony of the dotcom crash is that a lot of 'dark fiber' service started rolling out decades later. Fiber that was laid during the dotcom era.

There are lots of datacenters going up in similar fashion. I don't know if they'd have the same utility decades later (very unlikely), but it's interesting.

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