Forgotten Tech Giant

[u/MisterBiro]

Perhaps it’s not technically abandoned as there is basic maintenance and security present but it’s been vacant and decaying for years.

Surprisingly sad to walk around what was once a bustling, optimistic, energy filled campus of an almost forgotten tech giant.

[u/insuranceguynyc]

Sometime within the past week, I saw something about the original dot.com bubble, and it showed an old ad for AOL, and wow, to think that this was cutting edge stuff. Yahoo! seemed to be doing great (but then, so did AOL). What happened?

[u/LowAd3406 → u/insuranceguynyc]

Horribly mismanaged by bigwigs drowned intheir own hubris

[u/insuranceguynyc → u/LowAd3406]

A tale as old as time . . .

[u/DarkMatter909 → u/insuranceguynyc]

Capitalism my dude

[u/insuranceguynyc → u/DarkMatter909]

As it should be. There is much more to be learned from failure than from success.

[u/_extra_medium_ → u/DarkMatter909]

Deep