[deater]

dating myself here but I remember in the 90s reading a really funny spoof article about Microsoft announcing they had developed nuclear weapons. Didn't even seem that implausible at the time.

I would have linked it here but none of the search engines are turning up anything at all, and in fact I don't think it's even possible to find stuff like that with search engines anyore.

[deater]

I had thought maybe it was on the old 0xdeadbeef mailing list, but no luck, but probably it was this from rec.humor.funny which in the end isn't quite as clever as I remember it being.

https://groups.google.com/g/rec.humor.funny/c/4zIyBq1-1_E/m/...

[lumost]

The funny part about our 1990s memes on big tech, is that today’s big tech is 100-1000x larger.

NVidia is worth more than Germany.

[krautsauer]

We're not for sale, but still… numbers? Nvidia's stock price isn't even a 10th of the gold reserve, as far as I can see?

[umeshunni]

Also, comparing GDP (rate of production) to valuation (area under the curve) is silly. Like comparing velocity to distance.