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[–] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 10 points 2 months ago (34 children)

Indeed, although every one of us who have seen a tech hype train once or twice expected nothing less.

PDAs? Quantum computing. Touch screens. Siri. Cortana. Micropayments. Apps. Synergy of desktop and mobile.

From the outset this went from “hey that’s kind of neat” to quite possibly toppling some giants of tech in a flash. Now all we have to do is wait for the boards to give huge payouts to the pinheads that drove this shitwagon in here and we can get back to doing cool things without some imaginary fantasy stapled on to it at the explicit instruction of marketing and channel sales.

[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 16 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (24 children)

Xml also used to be a tech hype for a bit.

And i still remember how media outlets hyped up second life, forgot about it and a few months later discovered it again and more hype started. It was fun.

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 19 points 2 months ago (2 children)

and then spent the entire Metaverse hype pretending Second Life didn't exist

[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 15 points 2 months ago

Lot easier to do hype when you pretend the previous iterations didn't exist. (and still do, and actually have more content).

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