troyunrau

troyunrau, 1 year ago

Pro-tip: sort All by New Comments. Yes, if you refresh, you get repeat content, but you also find the unusual stuff and the repeated stuff is where the conversations are happening.

troyunrau, 1 year ago

How’s kbin doing? Granted they federate with Lemmy so it’s like asking about an instance. But not quite the same

troyunrau, 1 year ago

You look like you like rigatoni. Perhaps you’d be interested in trying SmellFresh Fabric softener. It helps keep your knees bent while you use the tobacco masher.

troyunrau, 1 year ago

Amazon: 1994

eBay: 1995

Match.com: 1995 (same parent company as tinder)

Hotmail: 1996 (MS owned in 1997)

Google: 1998

PayPal: 1998 (eBay owned in 2002)

If you look at the dot com bubble, there’s a lot of corporate colonization in the 90s. Many of them didn’t survive their stock crashing in 2000 (pets.com is a good example). Some things were not able to be launched until the internet infrastructure supported it properly (YouTube, for example), so yes some things do date to the 00s. But largely, by 1998, the internet was already on its current trajectory.

The reason Google was so disruptive at the time was that they didn’t charge websites to get listed – it was a business model that relied on actually finding what people were searching for. The fact that this model was disruptive at the time tells you how corporate it was even by then.