It was a crazy time GPU's were selling out due to miners... what did AMD do? They raised price.... and it still ran out for a while till it all kinda crashed.
This time with ETH is nothing like last time as far as effects on GPU sales. Just not the running out of cards as we saw long ago in the "old days".
This time, the price also rose. I bough at few nano at £379, a week later the price became £425. So it happened this time.
Still nothing compared to rates in "old day's" they jacked up like 50 percent at end if I remember right. And they still sold out. There were certain models of AMD they just could not keep in stock.
Just being able to log on and go to amazon/newegg and buy a GPU makes it far from different then "old days". Heck I watched newegg and newegg.ca the canada site for a while got in cards when other did not.
the difference is that it last longer last time, that's it i think, from doge late 2013 to summer 2014 now it's only few months in comparison, but ethereum is more profitable than doge ever was