Editing Railway Mania (section)

== Comparisons ==
Railway and [[Canal Mania]] can be compared with a similar mania in the 1990s in the stock of [[telecom companies]]. The telecom mania resulted in the installation and deployment of a vast amount of fibre-optic telecommunications infrastructure, spurred on from the realisation that the same railway rights-of-way could make affordable conduits for fibre optics. Yet another boom occurred in the period 1995–2000, during the development of the [[Internet]], when many companies were established to promote new services on the growing network. The [[dot-com bubble]] collapsed in 2000, and the much more extensive telecoms bubble in 2002 with the bankruptcies of [[Enron]], [[WorldCom]], [[Global Crossing]] and QWest, although some platform companies such as [[Google]] and [[Amazon.com|Amazon]] grew and prospered, diversifying into backbone fibre networks and [[cloud computing]] services.