Originally Posted by helterskelter808

Google wasn't the first search. Facebook wasn't the first social network.

People who are first get complacent and arrogant. Because they're first, and have little to no competition, success comes easy. They think they're the shit, but don't realize they just got very, very, very lucky.

Then when others come along later, true innovators with real skill who give people better service or product, who have to work harder and more creatively to break into an existing market, the dinosaurs get destroyed because they don't have the ability to adapt and change.

All they can do is flail around without a clue, playing a broken record about how much better it was in "1998" when they made $10,000 a day spamming newsgroups, and crying about how life isn't fair because other people came along and beat them at their own game by playing it better.