The web, on this day 10 years ago
Haha, the HN post about Facebook has a very interesting comment which mentions the internet "a decade from now":<p>> It is just a joke that Facebook could be valued at $6 billion. An absolute joke.<p>> FB has 30 million users, and that's not considering potential duplicates.<p>> The number of active users may be even smaller than that, and some people like I only log on once a week or so.<p>> If FB gets sold for $6 billion, that means the new owning company would need to make $500 million a year for 12 years(!) to break even.<p>> Frankly, the Internet will probably be drastically different a decade from now.<p>> FB doesn't even make $50 million a year, who in their right mind thinks that they will all of a sudden make a profit off Facebook by spending that much money?<p>> I swear some of these big companies just like throwing money at things. Yes, the dot-com bubble is here once again.<p>Original comment: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34165" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34165</a>