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And yet there was competition.

It is similar to today, respectively we have even less choice, we have two platforms, out of which one is mostly a lifestyle company and has a minor market share of ~20%, whereas the second is dominating the market at ~80%



And no, the web barely mattered in the mid to late 90s. That was the time when it was still nice there ;)


That was the first dot com boom. Are you seriously trying to argue the web didn’t matter at that point? It was all about the web.


The web was just slowly emerging at that point.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_Internet_usage#/media/F...

15% vs 80% these days. And thats the "developed world", globally it was around 2%.




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