The dotcom boom transferred the wealth of pension funds to 20-somethings in Silicon Valley.
Since the dotcom boom, medical device startups are the only ones proven to flourish inside incubators.
Prices of emerging-market shares remain modest, relative to earnings, compared with their peaks in the dotcom boom.
Open-source software gained ground during the dotcom boom and even more so afterwards, as a way to cut costs.
The collapse of the dotcom boom and the sharp downturn in computer and telecommunications markets hit them especially hard.
So in many ways the hopes for the internet of the dotcom boom years are now coming to fruition.
Today, although the dotcom boom is but a memory, bookmakers are one of the online world's few success stories.
These, contrary to expectations during the dotcom boom, are now the most exciting place on the internet for many advertisers.
Concur Technologies, which makes expense-management applications, began its transition to the cloud in early 1999, in the heart of the dotcom boom.
The 45-year-old Mr. Grimes, who had joined a year earlier, helped rebuild Morgan Stanley's tech team through the dotcom boom and bust.
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That often involves getting clients to invest in fashionable sectors at the top of the market (think back to the dotcom boom).
There followed the dotcom boom in the late 1990s, which promised to make silicon the new gold in the San Francisco Bay Area.
During the dotcom boom, the idea got about that there could be such a thing as a free lunch, or at least free internet services.
This forecasting error was at least understandable since the dotcom boom was an exceptional episode, but the chancellor then started to bank on this buoyancy continuing.
In Labour's first term, the Treasury was consistently too pessimistic about revenues, which were unexpectedly buoyant because of the high incomes and profits generated in the dotcom boom.
Time will tell if the RMB funds go the way of those in the late 1990s dotcom boom, with too much money rushing in and valuations rising before a crash.
And if Gerstner's traditional approach made IBM look old-fashioned and monolithic during the dotcom boom, they were also the reliable name that businesses turned to during the bust that followed.
But is this the week that the bubble bursts, as investors wake up to the fact that hot new stocks may prove as fragile as they were in the last dotcom boom?
Behind all these events is the widespread belief among technology companies that consumers, rather than companies, are their best remaining hope of returning to the revenue growth seen during the dotcom boom of the 1990s.
He tells how Sohu.com "caught the last train" to list on New York's Nasdaq technology stocks index in July 2000, just as the dotcom boom came crashing down, but survived to turn its first profit in the third quarter of 2002.
Whereas Netscape's IPO symbolized the dawn of the dotcom boom, TheGlobe.com's epitomized the height of irrational exuberance and Google's ushered in a renaissance of tech innovation after the Internet bubble burst, LinkedIn's debut will be remembered as social media's arrival on the capitalist stage known as Wall Street.
Instead, voters chose the boom and bust of the dotcom bubble, when trillions of dollars were made and lost between 1995 and 2001, with 19 percent (3, 420 votes) selecting the moment as the most significant in the Web's history.
Mr Mishkin, a former Fed governor, draws a contrast between credit-boom bubbles and irrational exuberance in stockmarkets, such as the dotcom bubble.
Now, there are other things that Greenspan can be blamed for: like the common belief that the housing boom was deliberately stoked up to deal with the aftermath of the dotcom crash.
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But eBay and the other dotcom survivors still have some way to go before they reach the sort of valuations they enjoyed during the first internet boom: they are currently trading at levels far below their peaks.
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