Word: dotcomers
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...post-cold war world, Americans worry more about dotcom stocks falling on the NASDAQ than they do about missiles falling from the sky. For those who do fear nuclear holocaust, however, there is www.protectamericansnow.com There you can get your very own "Customized Missile Threat Profile." Just type in your ZIP code, and the program will tell you which countries purportedly have the ability to hit your community with intercontinental ballistic missiles--and which countries may soon have the power to make your life that kind of nightmare. The site was masterminded by Frank Gaffney, a former Deputy Assistant Secretary...
...does a place seared by its past find its future? How does it move on, even as the nation as a whole is burying its history every minute with the invention of the next microchip or the launch of a new dotcom? "We can't worry about what's going on on Wall Street," says Mayor James Wilson. "We've got to worry about what's going on on Main Street." And right now, Cairo's Main Street is like an open scar left over from the day in 1967 when a black man was found hanged in jail...
...roiling early days of the dotcom economy, this logic made perfect sense to investors, who drove Priceline's stock to $119 a share. Profits were years away, but that was something that worried your old uncle in the boring old economy. Now, of course, the hottest concept sweeping the Web--with the NASDAQ off 26% and e-tailers disappearing faster than Energy Department hard drives--is actually making a buck...
...complicated for Priceline when major airline companies confirmed that they will invest in a website, to be called Hotwire, that will compete with Priceline to sell unused airline seats. Unlike Priceline, though, Hotwire will set prices rather than auction airline seats. The news, piled on top of weeks of dotcom doom, punished the stock, which finished the week...
...hope for the sake of humanity that not even half the predictions posed in your articles come true. I am 20 years old and a loyal member of the dotcom generation. As much as technology plays a role in my life, it is obvious that a line needs to be drawn for our progression into the future. A computer in every house? Yes. In every head? No. LUCAS LaBREE Harmony, Maine...