---
title: Internet disappoints
date: "2000-08-22T12:00:00Z"
categories:
  - links
wp_id: 2087
description: I shared a link to an Economist article from 2000 discussing the perceived failure of new media and the general disappointment surrounding the internet's impact during that period of economic and technological skepticism.
keywords: [the economist, new media, internet history, dot-com bubble, media failure]
---

The Economist has an article on [The failure of new media](http://www.economist.com/editorial/freeforall/current/index_wb3968.html) -- about how the Internet's a disappointment. In fact they have lots of [articles on the Internet](http://www.economist.com/editorial/freeforall/focus/focus_internet_tframeset.html).