Some of it was VC money, but quite a bit of it was the exact same thing that happened when the App Store became popular. People were going out of their way to try to create things that would be bought out by larger companies.
I was around in the 2000s when YouTube got bought by Google. I don’t disagree that the Internet used to be a blast, but I do disagree that corporate interests weren’t already fucking it up and going into overdrive by the end of the 90s.
Some of it was VC money, but quite a bit of it was the exact same thing that happened when the App Store became popular. People were going out of their way to try to create things that would be bought out by larger companies.
I was around in the 2000s when YouTube got bought by Google. I don’t disagree that the Internet used to be a blast, but I do disagree that corporate interests weren’t already fucking it up and going into overdrive by the end of the 90s.