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by zls 1054 days ago
decades :)

If we had known how fleeting the glory of the early 2010s internet would be, with everything ad-free and seo still comparatively rudimentary, would that have made it easier or harder to watch it die?

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Everything was free because interest rates were nothing, and every startup could use investor capital to cover their costs
And everything was simpler, you could throw something up on a $10/month shared host. Now you need a full stack of services running in the cloud charged by the minute.