{"id":986288,"date":"2026-01-19T07:54:18","date_gmt":"2026-01-19T02:24:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=986288"},"modified":"2026-01-19T08:03:01","modified_gmt":"2026-01-19T02:33:01","slug":"will-ai-crash-like-the-dot-com-boom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/01\/19\/will-ai-crash-like-the-dot-com-boom\/","title":{"rendered":"Will AI crash like the dot-com boom?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the late \u201990s, India fell in love with the internet. Neon-lit cybercaf\u00e9s were everywhere; companies were adding \u201c.com\u201d to their names to double valuations with little more than a URL and a pitch deck; investors believed they were sitting on a gold mine, dreaming of a future where clicks would replace commerce. Valuations soared. Startups with no revenue\u2014and often no product\u2014were going public. Then came 2000: the music stopped, and the mirage cleared. Trillions of dollars and inflated dreams evaporated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the late \u201990s, India fell in love with the internet. Neon-lit cybercaf\u00e9s were everywhere; companies were adding \u201c.com\u201d to their names to double valuations with little more than a URL and a pitch deck; investors believed they were sitting on a gold mine, dreaming of a future where clicks would replace commerce. Valuations soared. Startups with no revenue\u2014and often no product\u2014were going public. Then came 2000: the music stopped, and the mirage cleared. Trillions of dollars and inflated dreams evaporated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[75,4,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-986288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-new-indian-express","category-newspapers","category-the-new-indian-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/986288","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=986288"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/986288\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=986288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=986288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=986288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}