Comment by JumpCrisscross

> How much did Disney invest in backbone Internet technologies in the 1990s?

Disney invested billions in dot-com nonsense.

Starwave [1]. The Go.com debacle [2]. (Pets.com [3]!)

I think they even built a data center in Orlando.

[1] https://archive.seattletimes.com/archive/19980501/2748296/di...

[2] https://www.cnet.com/tech/services-and-software/disney-to-sh...

[3] https://www.cnet.com/tech/tech-industry/go-com-shapes-allian...