Word: dotcomers
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Supermarket Surfing What dotcom bust? According to figures released last week, profits at British online supermarket Tesco.com surged 30-fold last year, to €17.8 million. Sales at the online wonder rose...
...From that day forward traffic to info.cern.ch rose exponentially, from 10 hits a day to 100 to 1,000 and beyond. Berners-Lee had no idea that he had fired the first shot in a revolution that would bring us home pages, search engines, Beanie Baby auctions and the dotcom bust, but he knew that something special had happened. "Of all the browsers people wrote," Berners-Lee remembers, "and all the servers they put up, very few of them were done because a manager asked for them. They were done because somebody read one of these newsgroup messages...
Forces coalesced to create the greatest bubble in history. Valuations, earnings and common sense were sacrificed on the altar of instant IPO riches. If Netscape worked, the next 100 Netlike deals could work, and the next 200, because the online economy would have to supplant the off-line economy. Dotcom alchemy had begun. Trillions of dollars in losses later, we now know what hit us: a mania that eventually destroyed the bull market itself. The banker perpetrators are now being pursued by the authorities, the analyst anointers held in low esteem...
Early in the dotcom boom, when just being on the Web seemed to be an advanced business strategy, retailers were happy to pay for "eyeballs"--sheer audience size. Never mind that the impact was next to impossible to track. Today eyeballs are still an important factor, but retailers prefer performance-based deals--paying for "click-throughs" (portal visitors clicking on one of their links) and, in some cases, actual sales. "Back in the go-go days of the Internet, retailers would pay for the halo effect of being on a big portal like AOL," says David Bolotsky, who headed Goldman...
Bronson, 38, is a successful journalist and novelist best known for writing about Silicon Valley, but when he started What Should I Do with My Life?, he was asking himself that same question. The dotcom boom was over, he had a child on the way, and the TV show he was writing for had just been canceled to make way for Temptation Island. He was at a crossroads. So he began telling everybody he met that he was looking for tales about how people found their purpose in life. Relying entirely on a grass-roots, and-they-told-two-friends...