[konradb]

Extremely exciting, in that there was a lot of demand for tech. However the hype was much like the hype around crypto or now AI. A lot of grifters and people who had no business being in the industry. However because the barrier to entry was a bit higher, there wasn't such widespread madness that is observable with the crypto and AI hypetrains. It was definitely a period where if you had an idea, there were a lot fewer people in that space, and both tech and business were less developed in the industry. So there was a lot more space to shine, but you'd have to do a lot more legwork.

I use the heuristic that if there are loads of billboards everywhere advertising stuff that should be incomprehensible to the layman, then things have got too frothy.