I remember that thread and reading it after I had sold a bunch of Bitcoin I'd bought under $1 and sold for maybe $6 or so. Because of that thread I bought back in at $4 and watched as the price increased to like $30 within two more months.
I think one thing to mention that does make this different than the GPUs is that ASICs have 0 resale value, while a lot of us mining with GPUs knew we had friends we could sell them to or extra computers we could use them in if it became unprofitable for some reason.