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by mwaitjmp 1309 days ago
The dot com bubble is mentioned. Despite the mania leading up to the crash, I think all here would agree that ultimately the attention was justified, it was just perhaps a little premature.
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Dropping precipitously in value isn't actually a sufficient condition for a bubble. Something highly valued initially but undermined completely by a tech revolution comes to mind. Bound encyclopedias come to mind, post-internet.