I remember also when people treated web design as some new mystical career because people made a a bunch of money doing it in the beginning and too many quit their jobs took out huge loans to take classes and the like also people didn’t notice how easy it was going to be to make your own or places like go daddy etc I remeberin arguing with a RP game guild mate over this and her finally admitting years I was correct as she was never able to make it a dependable job so she went back to her original career she did say last time I talked to her that she had a nice side job of making websites for gaming guilds and clans in online gaming spots
another thing I seen a where a couple made a nascent web-based printable greeting card company that was mainly running as a hobby as they made the cards themselves and they had a few animated snarky ones that got noticed since you could send them in emails and they started making like 1 maybe 2k a month (in fact I used it once or twice)
American Greetings decided they wanted to do the same and bought out the whole thing for low double-digit millions … used it to start their own version of the idea … promptly lost a ton of money and shut it down like 2 years later …the original owners were talking about getting the IP back and relaunching the site as it originally was