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Even in the post-dotcom age, many businesses allow dogs at the office, and DreamWorks has gone a step further by providing a dog run for its employees' pets. People in Boca Raton, Fla., who need to be separated from their dogs during working hours but feel guilty about it can send their pets to day care at Camp Canine, where, for $22 a day, the dogs can play to exhaustion and then watch videos such as 101 Dalmations. "It's like children's day care. They get time outs and treats," says owner Lisa Schettino, adding, "Some...
...steeper fees. Yet there's no proof consumers will pay. "No wireless data-only network in the world has ever made money," warns Andrew Seybold, a wireless analyst based in Los Gatos, Calif. That so many have rushed to invest in Wi-Fi is, he predicts, "the next dotcom disaster...
...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...