[marcodave]

Wow. Just...wow. Some things in the article just seemed right up satire;

the blonde dressed-up lawyer who left her job pursuing [buzzword]-[buzzword]ing ?

the drunk guy who now has a meaning in life by obtaining the latest [buzzword] ?

the crowd cheering crazy at the mention of the [buzzword] ?

it all seems too... weird and alien to me; I'm not a boomer, but I'm almost 40; I've cheered at the age of digitalization and I was publicly derided on my views of the internet in the mid-90s.

Now... is this how older people felt in the 80s-90s, when faced with news about the digital era? or the idea that internet will replace this-and-that?

How similar is this to the late-90s dot-com craze? I bet my ass off that at the time they had early-adopter parties like the one in the article.

[cableshaft]

In the same boat as you age-wise, but it was probably kind of similar. As young as I was back then, and just knowing a hint of HTML, I still managed to stumble upon people trying to make their own dot-com and hearing pitches for websites that were just as pie-in-the-sky as some NFT projects.

Like I remember one back then that had an idea (I don't even think they had the tech, just an idea) for a VR headset and an omnidirectional treadmill and acted like they were sitting on a goldmine in the next 2-3 years and if I would just kindly make a website for them (for free) I'd get in on the ground floor.

Clearly their idea never materialized, or at least never found success.

[bearjaws]

For real, seems like a director got ready to make a movie about this event.

Can't help but feel hes looking at the event through rose colored glasses as it was 4 years ago now.

[pcthrowaway]

This article is from a couple of weeks ago?