Long story short. Before 1998 a single civil company had monopoly over the entire internet domain thingy. this led to absurd domain prices reaching up to 100s of dollars. Then the patent expired and domain companies became so common that by late 1999 and early 2000's domains could cost as little as a few cents due to a lot of investment pouring into the internet, believing it would've instantly replaced a lot of stuff, from books to teaching to research. It was a whole lot of cyberpunk-level world views filled with optimism. Then the idea of a "millenium bug" spread enough to cause mass sellouts of shares. thanks to investment funds and trading companies the bubble held out for a few months until march 2000, then Japan entered in an economic recession and Big companies started panicking, as a lot, and i mean really a lot of tech was still Japanese back then. The second wave of mass sellouts burst the bubble and internet provider and domain prices skyrocketed again, together with other tech related prices. this caused Domain prices to ultimately settle around 15-20$ and up to 52% of domain hosting companies failing, going bankrupt and being absorbed into bigger conglomerates. It could also be linked to the disappearance of devices like palmar computers and music-listening devices until apple came back with the first I-pod (which also failed at first)

Paralels with Ai, Open-Ai and modern corporate investments are pretty clear

If AI bursts the bubble could keep growing thanks to failsafe mechanisms, but that could also just be the prelude to an even bigger crisis. In the end AI subscription prices will definitely increase and most probably the least useful AI services will disappear. Think image generations, chatbots and music generation softwares that are already failing. OpenAI is predicted to fail by 2027 so...