That's us, that's our blue dot, not some stock image, or animation ...

CNN: Astronaut sings Bowie's 'Space Oddity' in zero gravity

"Nobody in the history of mankind has ever experienced the Earth as a pale, insignificant blue dot in the sky, " he said.

CNN: Mars on the brain? Red Planet pioneers to face cosmic mind trip

But with every dot-com blue chip, there were the dogs as well -- think of the likes of Pets.com and Globe.com.

CNN: 15 years of the World Wide Web

With pixels on a screen, everyone in the room sees the same dot of white, red or blue.

FORBES: Magazine Article

The irony, of course, is that mainline blue chips, initially, are hit harder and faster than high-flying dot.coms.

FORBES: Fact And Comment

The irony, of course, is that mainline blue chips, initially, are hit harder and faster than high-flying dot-coms.

FORBES: Fact And Comment

At Yahoo a daunting 40% of ad revenue still comes from dot-coms, a wobbly market, but it also serves a blue-chip roster in the real world, including Visa, Eddie Bauer, FTD and Spiegel.

FORBES: The Killer Ad Machine