Comments on: Dotcom crash was 10 years ago http://www.tnl.net/blog/2010/03/06/dotcom-crash-was-10-years-ago/ Turning Data into Knowledge Fri, 10 Feb 2012 02:12:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Fear of Geeks — TNL.net http://www.tnl.net/blog/2010/03/06/dotcom-crash-was-10-years-ago/comment-page-1/#comment-35493 Fear of Geeks — TNL.net Tue, 05 Oct 2010 01:46:01 +0000 http://www.tnl.net/blog/?p=1578#comment-35493 [...] Hav­ing grown up through the 80s and 90s, I’ve seen a cou­ple of cycles of com­puter folks being seen alter­na­tively as geniuses and mad sci­en­tists. The 80s marked a time of won­der with peo­ple like Steve Jobs and Bill Gates seen as the lead­ers of a new world. The 90s saw that opti­mism about tech­nol­ogy mag­ni­fied through the dot­com era when the word inter­net was a vir­tual philosopher’s stone, turn­ing every­thing that it touched to gold. That opti­mism turned into a long period of pes­simism as the dot­com bub­ble turned into a dot­com crash. [...] […] Hav­ing grown up through the 80s and 90s, I’ve seen a cou­ple of cycles of com­puter folks being seen alter­na­tively as geniuses and mad sci­en­tists. The 80s marked a time of won­der with peo­ple like Steve Jobs and Bill Gates seen as the lead­ers of a new world. The 90s saw that opti­mism about tech­nol­ogy mag­ni­fied through the dot­com era when the word inter­net was a vir­tual philosopher’s stone, turn­ing every­thing that it touched to gold. That opti­mism turned into a long period of pes­simism as the dot­com bub­ble turned into a dot­com crash. […]

]]> By: Tristan Louis http://www.tnl.net/blog/2010/03/06/dotcom-crash-was-10-years-ago/comment-page-1/#comment-34788 Tristan Louis Tue, 06 Apr 2010 02:48:01 +0000 http://www.tnl.net/blog/?p=1578#comment-34788 Thanks for sharing. It's true that it seemed everyone was trading stocks back then.. Thanks for sharing. It’s true that it seemed everyone was trading stocks back then..

]]> By: michael shell http://www.tnl.net/blog/2010/03/06/dotcom-crash-was-10-years-ago/comment-page-1/#comment-34776 michael shell Mon, 05 Apr 2010 17:58:45 +0000 http://www.tnl.net/blog/?p=1578#comment-34776 Those were the good old days. The other thing going on then was everyone, it seemed, was playing the stock market and as long as the company had a ".com" at the end of its name you were guaranteed to make some quick cash. We all knew this couldn't last forever but who knew when it would end? I remember one day walking around the office of the ebiz consulting company I was working for and noticing that almost everyone had stock quotes on their computer screens. It really made me think, if everyone is trading and noone is actually working how long can this last? Well, I got my answer in about 2 weeks when I lost over $100,000 in very little time. - michael Those were the good old days. The other thing going on then was everyone, it seemed, was playing the stock market and as long as the company had a “.com” at the end of its name you were guaranteed to make some quick cash. We all knew this couldn’t last forever but who knew when it would end?

I remember one day walking around the office of the ebiz consulting company I was working for and noticing that almost everyone had stock quotes on their computer screens. It really made me think, if everyone is trading and noone is actually working how long can this last? Well, I got my answer in about 2 weeks when I lost over $100,000 in very little time.

- michael

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