Tag: tech history

Finance • September 5, 2026

The Dot-Com Bubble: Who Died, Who Won, and Could It Happen Again?

The dot-com bubble is usually remembered as a story about stupidity. Investors throwing money at companies with no profits. Startups adding “.com” to their names. Twenty-somethings becoming paper millionaires. Pets.com spending heavily to sell pet food online. Venture capital chasing almost anything connected to the internet. Then, in 2000, gravity returned. But that version of […]

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Devices • July 12, 2026

When Amazon Deleted 1984 From Kindles

In 2009, Amazon delivered one of the most brutally ironic tech moments of the digital age: it remotely deleted copies of George Orwell’s 1984 from customers’ Kindle devices. Not a parody. Not a Black Mirror pitch. The book famous for state-controlled truth, disappearing records, and the “memory hole” was itself vanished from people’s e-readers. The […]

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