NVIDIA keynote resurfaces 2000 headline: "Internet may be just a passing fad"
bennash · x · 2026-11-13
At an NVIDIA event, the big screen displayed a Daily Mail front page from December 5, 2000: "Internet 'may be just a passing fad as millions give up on it'." Captioned "Only a matter of time now," the slide draws a pointed parallel between today's AI skeptics and those who wrote off the internet 25 years ago.
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