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Silicon Underground (Dave F)<p>26 years ago tomorrow, Yahoo bought Mark Cuban's dotcom-era startup, broadcast.com, for $4.6 billion. Like many startups, it wasn't making money yet. But the deal made Mark Cuban a billionaire. He sold at just the right time. <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/RetroComputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RetroComputing</span></a> <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/DotComEra" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DotComEra</span></a> <a href="https://dfarq.homeip.net/how-mark-cuban-became-rich/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">dfarq.homeip.net/how-mark-cuba</span><span class="invisible">n-became-rich/</span></a></p>
Silicon Underground (Dave F)<p>During the dotcom era, some people regarded AOL as the safest investment of all the 90s tech stocks. It was a somewhat older company, was an Internet provider, and gave a healthy return. For a while at least. <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/retrocomputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>retrocomputing</span></a> <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/dotcomera" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>dotcomera</span></a> <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/techinvesting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>techinvesting</span></a> <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/nostalgiatech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>nostalgiatech</span></a> <a href="https://dfarq.homeip.net/aol-history/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">dfarq.homeip.net/aol-history/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p>
Silicon Underground (Dave F)<p>24 years ago this week, Google made its first acquisition, a Usenet archive called Dejanews. I was a regular. In this blog post I tell you where Google hides that treasure trove of information from long before Reddit. <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/retrocomputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>retrocomputing</span></a> <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/dotcomera" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>dotcomera</span></a> <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/webhistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>webhistory</span></a> <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/usenet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>usenet</span></a> <a href="https://dfarq.homeip.net/deja-news-googles-first-acquisition/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">dfarq.homeip.net/deja-news-goo</span><span class="invisible">gles-first-acquisition/</span></a></p>
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