"Internet 'may be just a passing fad as millions give up on it'" - Daily Mail, December 2000
I recall seeing similar sentiment in other publications throughout the late 90s.
https://www.reddit.com/r/retrocomputing/comments/1m6i4ui/art...
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Surely you jest. Since people here are fans of LLMs, the Google summary describes said publication as: "The Daily Mail is widely regarded as a sensationalist tabloid with low factual credibility and a strong right-leaning bias."
I was there in the 1990s too and we were deluged with headlines trumpeting how everyone, young and old, was rushing headlong onto the Information Superhighway as the dotcom bubble kept inflating.