How The Internet's Bad Pennies (Eventually) Turn Into Gold

Bad ideas in digital technology and e-commerce recur repeatedly, wasting billions. But sometimes they have silver linings.

As an almost official old man of the modern Internet—I founded a web development firm in 1994—I keep seeing ideas I thought were dead and buried break the surface of the digital ocean, fly free for a moment, and then sink back to the bottom.

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