Ask HN: Decline and fall of major internet players in our lifetime?
Do you think we will see the decline and fall of Google, Facebook, Amazon (and the like) in our lifetime?
Of course, it depends on your age as well: I've seen the rise and decline of CompuServe, AOL, AltaVista, MySpace, Compaq, Gateway, Siemens-Nixdorf and so on. Not to name Nokia, RIM/Blackberry, Atari, Commodore, Sinclair and many, many others. Many of them could be seens as "major players" in their fields at a time. We used Mosaic & Netscape as web browsers and MSIE was pure evil ... there was no Chrome, there wasn't even Google. Or look at the changes IBM & Microsoft have gone through.
Maybe Google, FB & AMZ are bigger and will stay on top longer, but 30 or 50 years from now, the world will have changed.