Shane Coughlan writes “I’m a bit of a dinosaur. I was around at the end of the nineties when there was all the excitement about the dot.com boom, when AOL ate Time Warner, and when people were promising web operating systems running under Java. Everything kind of went kablooey around 2001. AOL suddenly were the junior partner in Time Warner. Dot.com went to dot.bust. Java was still slow. “Gosh,” I thought, “how amazingly peaceful everything has suddenly become.” And then…“
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