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Tech generally suffers from not knowing / remembering our own history. Wish more people wrote books cataloging these (recent past) times. At least the 2010s have better records.
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In general the 90s are an oddly forgotten decade. The internet and dotcom booms were so exciting and sucked so much attention, nobody remembers anything else that happened, and sometimes people go around rediscovering 90s things. The 80s are rememembered much more accurately.
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They do. Nobody reads them. In tech we prefer to reinvent wheels rather than dig up history and that’s generally a healthy hacker-ethos bias. Need the boldness to throw stuff out and start fresh even if it means a slightly sad history of discarded ideas and forgotten bunny trails
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Yep. Being able to start anew is a huge advantage. But historical context can be helpful in pattern matching. E.g. if you haven’t seen a liquidity crunch yet, it’ll be useful to know what it’s looked like in the past.
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