While these ads yielded small amounts of money compared to banner ads at the time, as the dot-com bubble burst, this system became our life preserver.

尽管这种广告比横幅广告赚的钱少，但在网络泡沫破灭的时候，这套系统成了我们的生命线。

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The dot-com bubble turned into the tech bubble and both eventually burst, wiping out not only newcomers like WorldCom, but also established names such as Lucent Technologies and Nortel.

在dot - com泡沫变成了高科技泡沫最终都破灭，消灭了，不仅像世通公司的新人，而且还建立了诸如朗讯科技和北电的名字。

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So did seeing many of my over-leveraged friends blow up when the dot-com bubble burst.

当.com的泡沫破灭的时候，我的很多有大额贷款的朋友都破产了。

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The market has failed newspapers since the dot-com bubble burst and ad revenue vanished.

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So what happened was that before the dot-com bubble burst in 2000, VCs did amazingly well.

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First, the dot-com bubble burst, taking with it the inflated capital-spending plans of everybody who had been hoping to make a buck off of it.

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