But, day does follow night, capitalism works, the market recovered, and 2004-2021 was a far bigger boom than 1994-2000 and deservedly so.
Thank you for taking the time to outline this. Is there any book/documentary/whatever that well captures the spirit of the times?
This is great. A few more thoughts; I was in academia at the time. After the crash, tech was essentially out of the headlines through the 2000s. After 9/11, all anyone cared about was terrorism. It wasn’t till 2009-10 (iPhone) that tech went vertical again. And 2013 before tech was taken seriously by “the culture