‘Valley of the Boom’ Review: NatGeo Chronicles the Champs & Charlatans of the Early Dot-com Era

Watching NatGeo’s Valley of the Boom, which chronicles the early days of the 90s’ browser wars through to the dot-com bust of the 2000s, is like watching history repeat itself. The events portrayed are well-documented and certainly not that far in the past; a quarter-century later, the exact same patterns and language used in this program — that is, the billionaire bubbles around innovative tech creators — are once again true. It’s discouraging, really, to hear that we as a society, tech as an industry, and the greed of the investment sector have really learned nothing. Welcome …

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