1985: Symbolics, a Massachusetts computer company, registers symbolics.com, the internet’s first domain name. The market for these unique addresses would not heat up for years, but this click heard ’round the world would eventually provide just about anyone a place in cyberspace to call their own.
Owning your own domain is nothing to brag about anymore, [...]
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March 15, 1985: Dot-Com Revolution Starts With a Whimper
March 15th, 2010 |
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March 10, 2000: Pop Goes the Nasdaq!
March 10th, 2010 |
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2000: The Nasdaq hits 5,048.62, the high-water mark of the dot-com boom. It’s all downhill from here.
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10 Years After: A Look Back at the Dot-com Boom and Bust
The boom is more accurately described as a bubble, since it rested largely on wild stock speculation and freewheeling venture-capital investment that resulted in the often ludicrous [...]