The Great Virtual War

The online virtual world had its own shares of worldwide conflict, not just the conflicts going on in the outside world. Much like the World Wars I-II alike, this “dot.com” bomb situation lasted for many decades and even though this phenomenon had eventually come to a close, the sense of a virtual war never truly ended due to a never-ending evolution of technology that would always been soon surpassed with another.

This sort of “dot.com” became a craze, with everyone major (online/virtual) company trying to take advantage of what was conceived as possible in the World Wide Web. It had become a competition between top dogs such as Microsoft, Google, Amazon, among many others trying to see which people would flock over to which products/creations/applications that would help make ordinary individuals’ lives much more convenient and time-efficient. Not only that, it was a competition to see which company or companies would gain the most stock and revenue in order to have loads of cash in their back pockets, though it was soon to be seen as momentarily successful.

Approximately near the end of the 1990s, the consequences of heavily relying on the buying out of failing companies led to them to eventually declaring bankruptcy. There was unstable and imbalanced sums of money being put into some companies to the point to where the stock brokers who worked under said companies had no choice but to sell out in order to save themselves; companies ultimately crashed. Despite this war ending, I question if it ever truly ended since we always end up moving forward and looking back on what we've done and trying to improve upon it. Technology opens the gate and/or is the basis into creating evolved/new technology; the cycle always continues, so the virtual war continues through the decades of time.