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The Burst Dot Com Bubble
The what caused the bubble to burst?
Partially it was the abuse of the concepts of presentations; not using the
capability of the technology and the site became nothing but a catalog. The same
thing could still be done, and to a greater degree, by the printed catalog.
But the biggest thing was the code. Stuffy, inefficient hypertext markup
language. Somebody's good idea when the original net was started as a sort of
interoffice link up of early P.C.-type computers using telephones.
They kept the code, which was only supposed to be a stopgap measure using qwerty
typewriter keyboard characters to produce a simple, easy-to-learn code that
anybody could learn. A clumsy, cumbersome, inaccurate, slow, sloppy, deficient
code that was OK to use as a quick stopgap measure but not as a permanent
fixture. It was the Pentagon's gift to mankind.
The Pentagon Spoon-Benders and their magic-brained martial ineptitude. (It's
time you built a new building, boys. The old one will lose you the next real
war). They have innovators, all right, but then the ideas get stolen. And when
someone else takes credit for an idea, it gets dead-ended.
The person who comes up with an idea gets more. The person who steals an idea
never gets another one. Hence, no improvement or even better, no replacement.
Same tank, same helicopter, same HTML.
Which is OK for the military. After all, it always has been a socialistic system
since the dawn of time. If you make it your career, you except the life-style.
You can always get out after your few basic years. But it's always a disaster for
private industry to depend on military innovation. They get dead-ended ideas
like the World War II truck. By now the private sector should have had the
Side Loader trailer-powered, cylindrical axel drogue-assisted breaking, smart
dent-evader, individually-parkable 5-trailer-capable, highway cargo transport
system with life sign monitor wake-or-sleep-break cabin capability.
But even that is still your old truck basic design with modernesque Australian
road-train adaptation.
As for the military, I mean, by
now they should have treadless amphibious tanks of 150mph off-road auto nav
drive capability and non-lethal autoload 87mil "impounder" cost cutted weapon
systems onboard, helicopter rotor blades that don't break the sound barrier or
leave heat signatures with 3/4 mach transport cruise potential and with smart
rocket tip second chance landing capability, lazar tape servers with duo centi
milbit gigahertz-run strait line retrieval on mechanical "Babbage 2000" backpack
field computers. I mean, come on. What are they in the army for, the
chow? That's some weapon! -- A guided mess hall. Look out,
boys! Someone will steal that idea for sure.
They had the dot com burst
because all the "theys" who were anything in the business stole every last darn
idea they could uncover. They aren't innovators, just extremely good
innovator-finders. They can only bend spoons they can't invent them.
It reminds me of the joke about one Scotsman stealing an idea from another and
getting the credit, but never coming up with a subsequent idea, because those
who hired the wrong Scotsman kilted the goose that produces the golden eggs.
Get rid of HTML, go to direct binary transponders
and look behind the idea for the innovators. Will the real inventor please
stand up? If the imposters stand too, well, buddy, you've got to find out
the hard way or your little dot will burst next. I'll give you a hint:
The imposters are the guys claiming that the dot com revolution was just a
bubble. It wasn't. It actually was the book-cooker's dupes'
missed opportunity.
The dot com bubble burst because of
misuse of the technology and because of the html code.
Copyright (c) 2005 by Paul A. L. Hall. All rights reserved.
They kept the code, which was only supposed to be a stopgap measure using qwerty
typewriter keyboard characters...
26 March, 2005
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