On 10 March , it crested at the 5, mark. The dot-com bubble popped. It would take about a decade and a half all told for the index to return to and surpass its previous peak. So what are we to make up off all this? For insight on these questions, we compared the current tech landscape to that of the dot-com bubble era of Quite simply, most tech sector categories are still nowhere near the valuation levels of the dot-com era. Only two tech categories had valuation levels in September that approached those of March Those were the Electronic Gaming and Scientific Equipment sectors. Aside from Electronic Gaming and Scientific equipment, all 13 of the other tech categories had higher valuations in March than they did in September Our research demonstrates that while the current tech industry has yet to replicate the excessive valuations seen in the lead-up to the dot-com crash, their valuations levels are elevated.

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If you were looking for a single company that exemplified the dot-com era, you could choose Priceline. It was founded by Jay Walker, an entrepreneur with a clever solution to a real problem: every day, , airline seats were going unsold. Priceline offered these seats to online customers who could name the price they were willing to pay. Consumers got cheaper flights; airlines sold excess inventory; inefficiencies were ironed out of the market; and Priceline took a cut for facilitating the process: your garden-variety win-win-win-win that only the internet could make happen.
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A dotcom, or dot-com, is a company that conducts business primarily through its website. A dotcom company embraces the Internet as the key component in its business. The usage of "dotcom" to refer to all Internet-based companies is outdated. Dotcom is now only used to specifically refer to the Internet companies of the 's during the dotcom bubble.
The dot-com bubble also known as the dot-com boom , [1] the tech bubble , [2] and the Internet bubble was a stock market bubble caused by excessive speculation of Internet-related companies in the late s, a period of massive growth in the use and adoption of the Internet. During the crash, many online shopping companies, such as Pets. The release of Mosaic and subsequent web browsers gave computer users access to the World Wide Web , greatly popularizing use of the Internet.