THE VIDEO SHELF · nortel networks history
The Company that Broke Canada
BobbyBroccoli documentary on the rise of Nortel Networks, once the dominant Canadian telecom giant, during the dot-com era. It is part one of a two-part story.
Why HN readers recommended it
Recommended as a well-made documentary explaining Nortel's rise and the index-fund and bubble dynamics around it.
This is a summary from the source dataset, not an endorsement by Hacker News or the video creator.
Video & recommendation details
- Creator / channel
- BobbyBroccoli
- Topic
- nortel networks history
- Format
- documentary
- Level
- general
- HN recommenders in dataset
- 3
- HN mentions in dataset
- 4
- Recommendation years in dataset
- 2024–2026
These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.
From the original HN conversations
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BobbyBroccoli on YouTube does an absolutely phenomenal job creating documentaries. Related to the dot-com burst would be the story he tells about Nortel. - Part 1: [VIDEO] - Part 2: [LINK]
orc00 on Hacker News · 2025-03
In When the Dotcom Bubble BurstFor those curious, I found this to be a very entertaining retelling of events from Nortel's persepective: [VIDEO]
month13 on Hacker News · 2025-09
In Anthropic raises $13B Series FAny Canadians in the room should remember this as the exact mechanism by which Nortel Networks became astronomically huge. Any time Nortel got more valuable, index funds tracking the Toronto Stock Exchange (TSE) loaded up on Nortel, amplifying the price increase. This gave the company …
kmeisthax on Hacker News · 2026-03
In Nasdaq's Shame
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