There are millions of millionaires in China alone that are very concerned about the future security and mobility of their money. Now consider India, Russia, Iran. This isn’t fiction.
> Not trying to be pessimistic but genuinely curious why so many people make the analogy to the dot com period.
Because most people are not creative nor critical thinkers and the extent of their brilliance is superficial pattern matching. To most people the dot-com bubble seems to fit all the patterns so by their logic it must have the same outcome. If you think critically about the differences of the crypto craze and the dot-com era, you’ll see how irrational it is to make a strong comparison.
> The concept of Fork was not designed to "spawn new programs", it was created to allow parallelism on a single program with several processes collaborating on the same task. It's even in the name (i.e. you fork the program in two, not spawn a new process).
I really doubt this. Is there an instance of a program with 1st edition lineage that use processes to achieve concurrency? There were pipes, sure, but that could be achieved with a spawn-like call.
I don’t see processes being used for concurrency in UNIX history until BSD sockets and forking servers emerged.
Actually niche online communities aren’t weird. Just because a topic isn’t repeated over and over again on big media doesn’t mean it’s weird. Big media doesn’t dictate what is normal.