Likewise, investors who bet against the dot.com stocks in early 2001 made a killing as the dot.com bubble burst Cisco (NASDAQ:CSCO), for instance, is trading near 80 percent below its 2000 peak.
In the computer industry the possibilities are endless, such as computers the size of a dot.
"Nobody in the history of mankind has ever experienced the Earth as a pale, insignificant blue dot in the sky, " he said.
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San Francisco, a consistent big loser for the last decade, jumped to 19th, presumably as a result of the current dot.com bubble.
The mailman delivers to a post-office box about 10 miles away at the only restaurant-bar in Pioneertown, a tiny dot created by Hollywood in the 1940s as a backdrop for filming westerns.
These days, pines and blackjack oaks with trunks "as thick as a man's leg" dot the fairways, Harris said.
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The best deals show up as a big green circle, while overpriced seats are marked with a smaller red dot.
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Louis Rams played the Tennessee Titans in Super Bowl XXXIV, a moment that will be forever remembered as the dot-com bubble's Waterloo.
For instance, military demand went off a cliff in the 1990s, just as the dot.com boom was spawning unprecedented prosperity in the commercial sector.
It suggests that the Internet Age is now about to end, with a mass extinction of dot-coms as sweeping and complete as the one of reptiles at the end of the Jurassic.
We had the 2000 crash, otherwise known as the dot-com crash, which was a bear market lasting from 2000 to 2002, and we had a mini bull market from 2003 to 2007.
Mr. Smith and his eight partners started their business in 2000 for the sole purpose of having it become a dot-shop registry holder that could sell dot-shop Web addresses, such as jeans.shop and coats.shop.
But they are not being killed by the Internet, as the most avid dot-com fans were predicting a few years ago.
England's anxiety was evident as Dockrell sent down five dot balls and Wright top-edged a sweep that landed between the keeper and the third man fielder.
Gayman, who had worked as a developer in the Bay Area during the tail end of the dot-com era before rejoining the family firm, spotted an opportunity.
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The band can slowly shrink, moving as though it is slipping from the surface, until it becomes just a dot on the apple's skin.
"We will need the support of DOT to introduce a number of these initiatives, but as these measures are in line with Secretary Mineta's recent statements, we are hopeful that this will be forthcoming, " Beaton said.
And as Mr Seifert well knows, the dot.com world is something of a rollercoaster.
Glasse notes that GoPano is bulkier than Dot but says he views the competing company as helping Kogeto create a new market.
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The San Francisco-based start-up is attempting something that was attempted before about a decade ago during the dot-com boom: to act as an infomediary between consumers and advertisers.
The term Web 2.0 describes the post-dot-com generation of sites and services that use the Web as a platform--things like Flickr, BitTorrent, tagging and RSS syndication.
The recent dot-com crash wasn't the end of the Internet, even as a business opportunity.
Digital Deals: Universal Music is part of the joint venture Pressplay, but it also runs a handful of smaller, somewhat disparate digital music sites that it's acquired as struggling dot-coms went looking for corporate cover.
During the dot-com bubble and the recent credit expansion, market institutions that normally acted as a corrective force were giving in to the frenzy instead.
It has been a system of amazing efficiency, its biggest past weakness being that it sometimes (as in the dot-com "bubble") creates too many companies of dubious viability.
Another U.S. company called EyeSee360 is devising a similar accessory, the GoPano micro, that appears set for introduction around the same time as Dot.
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"Clearly when you back out the barter transactions, as well as the three-year dot-com ad contracts that are now expiring, advertising wasn't a viable business model, " says Henry Asher, president of Northstar Group, a New York-based investment manager that holds the parent company's shares.
The four-hour event ended with everyone holding hands and singing a song with the lyrics "You have to go through a thunderstorm to see a rainbow"--a reference to the dot-com bust and the dark days of the SARS virus scare as Taobao launched in mid-2003.
She explained that living through the dot com bubble burst was one of the best learning experiences to be a VC now, as it provided lessons in noticing patterns (and in missing them).
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