I was there during the crypto-bubble, the housing market bubble, but I don’t have any memory of the internet/dotcom bubble, and I was not alive during the rail-road bubble.
However, I want to know what the thoughts of the people were during that time. During AI, that fact that it’s a bubble is more apparent but during the housing and dotcom, I feel like it was more subtle (or I am too naive).
Does anyone have any personal experience of what it was like at that time? Were people as skeptical as they are today? What were they right/wrong about? Were the attitudes different? What changed after the crash?
Yeah I had my dot-com job with tons of stock options and knew I was gonna be rich! Just gotta go public and… oh, what’s that, 3 waves of layoffs leaving a skeleton crew? Well shit. I’ll just go get another job and… well shit. Ok, handful of other geeks, let’s band together and scrape tiny contracts together in a desperate bid to eat and make rent. Guess I’m not rich anymore. :/