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Do you remember all the failed predictions, too?

The internet was well-established and its worth proven many times over before it was ever open to the public, so well before the hype cycle happened.

> And then it did.

After the dotcom bubble exploded. Can't we call that a winter?

What metrics do you want to go by? At least by internet use and user growth the dotcom bubble still saw massive amounts of new user growth and online time by users.

Was there a massive reduction in completely untenable .com's? But I'm not exactly sure if that's the definition of a winter, plenty of other internet based businesses did fine and kept growing in that time.

Sounds fair indeed

I remember a hype cycle called “BigData”. Companies now realize data science that big of a step to business analytics of the 90s.

What about cryptos, VR, nosql, nfts, &c. ?

thank you