As the year and the decade rapidly come to an end, many sites and publications are posting retrospectives, best of lists, worst of lists, and what to watch for in the coming year.
I thought it would be interesting to go back ten years – to the beginning of the “aughts” – and list ten things we thought we knew.
- "This dotcom investing frenzy is not a bubble. No way”
- “AOL is so much better than CompuServe and Prodigy. Looks at all these disks I have for free hours!”
- “The new Google search engine is cool. But there’s no money to be made in providing search results.”
- “Pluto. That’s the ninth planet in our solar system.”
- “Apple is coming out with something called an iPod next year. Kind of like a Walkman, I guess.”
- “I’ve already got a 27-inch TV. Why would I need a bigger one?”
- “GeoCities is the future of the social web.”
- “If there’s one thing I know it’s that real estate is always a safe investment.”
- “An encyclopedia on your computer, like Encarta, is a great product that lots of people will pay for.”
- “What’s a GPS? What’s a Facebook? What’s a Youtube?”Makes you wonder about what we “know” is true right now and how that will change in the coming years.
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