people became millionaires writing html 30 years ago. there's been these shifts ...

gitlinuxgreat · 2026-02-24T18:35:14 1771958114

People became billionaires from domain names in the dot com era.

trgn · 2026-02-24T19:11:44 1771960304

haha! do you know details, what domains?

simonw · 2026-02-24T19:15:05 1771960505

Mark Cuban sold broadcast.com to Yahoo for $5.7bn

It was a bit more than a domain name - they had 330 employees and $13.5 million in revenue for a quarter - but that acquisition was definitely peak dot-com boom.

fud101 · 2026-02-25T06:09:31 1771999771

paul graham sold a bunch of buggy lisp macros to yahoo too for a few billion. Wild times.

trgn · 2026-02-24T20:52:20 1771966340

thanks!

i would love another bubble. i feel like tech has been in a corner for going on ten years now (covid spike was so brief). it's so concentrated in ai it sucks up everything.