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Amishman

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9. The dot com crash didn't spell the end of ecommerce and the internet

Reply to cojoel (Reply #5)

Sat Feb 14, 2026, 07:47 AM

23 hrs ago

Some stock prices crashing and some individual companies going belly up isn't going to stop what's coming.

A few years ago we were laughing at the bad hands and extra fingers of AI image generation.

Now it can crank out video that is difficult to distinguish from reality.

The tech will keep improving, and isn't going away.

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