It was such a fun and wild time. Companies like Lycos and TheGlobe.com became multi-billion dollar entities on hope, promise, and revenue from selling products to each other and back. As big as the tech / internet bubble was, the telecom bubble was even bigger with higher highs and higher lows, and much of the over-investment in capacity has been utilized time and again since then (and got really cheap for a few years in between too).
Read in full here:
https://joshelman.medium.com/the-history-of-the-dot-com-era-c370828ea32a
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