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Dot-Com Bubble

Dot-Com Bubble Events

1994 Amazon Is Founded
Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) is an American-based multinational electronic commerce company. Headquartered in Seattle, Washington, it is America's largest online retailer, with nearly ...
1995 Craigslist Is Founded
Craigslist is a centralized network of online communities, featuring free online classified advertisements – with sections devoted to jobs, housing, personals, for sale, services, communi...
1995 GeoCities is Founded as Beverly Hills Internet (BHI)
Beverly Hills Internet opened today four additional virtual communities based on real-world locations, raising to 10 the number of interactive "GeoCities"(R) BHI has established in the pa...
1995 Mar 1 Yahoo! Is Founded
Yahoo! Inc. (NASDAQ: YHOO) is an American public corporation headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, (in Silicon Valley), that provides Internet services worldwide. The company is perhaps...
1995 Aug 24 MSN Is Founded
MSN, formerly The Microsoft Network, is a collection of Internet sites and services provided by Microsoft. The Microsoft Network debuted as an online service and Internet service provider...
1995 Sep 3 eBay Is Founded
eBay Inc. is an American Internet company that manages eBay.com, an online auction and shopping website in which people and businesses buy and sell a broad variety of goods and services w...
1996 Nov eToys is Founded
We are the leading Web-based retailer focused exclusively on children's products, including toys, video games, software, videos and music. We currently offer an extensive selection of com...
1998 Boo.com is Founded
Boo.com was a British Internet company founded by Swedes Ernst Malmsten, Kajsa Leander and Patrik Hedelin that famously went bust following the dot-com boom of the late 1990s. After se...
1998 Flooz.com is Founded
Flooz.com was a dot-com venture, now defunct, based in New York City that went online in February 1999, promoted by comic actress Whoopi Goldberg in a series of television advertisements....
1998 Go.com is Founded
Go.com (also known as The Go Network) is a web portal first launched by Jeff Gold, and now operated by the Walt Disney Internet Group, which is a part of The Walt Disney Company. The port...
1998 Interest Rates Begin To Fall
The venture capitalists saw record-setting rises in stock valuations of dot-com companies, and therefore moved faster and with less caution than usual, choosing to mitigate the risk by st...
1998 Kozmo.com is Founded
Kozmo.com was a venture-capital-driven online company that promised free one-hour delivery of anything from DVD rentals to Starbucks coffee in the United States. It was founded by young i...
1998 Pets.com is Founded
Another important dot-com lesson was that advertising, no matter how clever, cannot save you. Take online pet-supply store Pets.com. Its talking sock puppet mascot became so popular that ...
1998 Sep 4 Google Is Founded
Google Inc. is an American public corporation, earning revenue from advertising related to its Internet search, e-mail, online mapping, office productivity, social networking, and video s...
1999 Gov.Works.com is Founded
Last but certainly not least, the story of GovWorks.com was good enough to become the documentary Startup.com, which chronicles its brief life. Envisioned as a Web site for citizens to do...
1999 Kibu.com is Founded
Unlike the other flops listed here, Kibu.com, an online community for teenage girls, didn't wait till the very end to wave the white flag. In fact, at the time of its October 2000 closi...
1999 MVP.com is Founded
Like Planet Hollywood and Flooz.com, MVP.com proved that celebrity endorsements are worth nothing in the long run. Backed by sports greats John Elway, Michael Jordan, and Wayne Gretzky a...
1999 Webvan is Founded
A core lesson from the dot-com boom is that even if you have a good idea, it's best not to grow too fast too soon. But online grocer Webvan was the poster child for doing just that, makin...
1999 May 19 eToys Goes Public and Completes Its Initial Public Offering
FILED PURSUANT TO RULE 424(b)4 REGISTRATION NO. 333-72469 8,320,000 Shares ETOYS INC. Common Stock ------------------ This is an initial public offering of shares of ...
1999 Dec 30 FTSE 100 Index Peaks
Another reason may have been accelerated business spending in preparation for the Y2K switchover. Once New Year had passed without incident, businesses found themselves with all the equip...
2000 Jan 11 AOL Acquires Time Warner
On January 11, 2000, America Online, a favorite of dot-com investors and pioneer of dial-up Internet access, acquired Time Warner, the world's largest media company. Within two years, boa...
2000 Jan 14 The Dow Jones Peaks
Another reason may have been accelerated business spending in preparation for the Y2K switchover. Once New Year had passed without incident, businesses found themselves with all the equip...
2000 Jan 30 Super Bowl XXXIV Features Seventeen Dot-Com Companies
Public awareness campaigns were one of the ways in which dot-coms sought to grow their customer base. These included television ads, print ads, and targeting of professional sporting even...
2000 Mar 10 Dot-com Bubble Reaches Peak
Over 1999 and early 2000, the Federal Reserve had increased interest rates six times, and the economy was beginning to lose speed. The dot-com bubble burst, numerically, on March 10, 2000...
2000 Mar 13 The Market Opens 4% Lower On Monday Than It Closed On Friday
One possible cause for the collapse of the NASDAQ (and all dotcoms that collapsed) was the massive, multi-billion dollar sell orders for major bellwether high tech stocks (Cisco, IBM, Del...
2000 Mar 24 S&P 500 Peaks
Another reason may have been accelerated business spending in preparation for the Y2K switchover. Once New Year had passed without incident, businesses found themselves with all the equip...
2000 Apr 3 Microsoft Is Declared A Monopoly
Over 1999 and early 2000, the U.S. Federal Reserve had increased interest rates six times, and the economy was beginning to lose speed. The dot-com bubble burst, numerically, on March 10,...
2000 Apr 15 iWon.com Gave Away Ten Million Dollars To A Lucky Contestant
Public awareness campaigns were one of the ways in which dot-coms sought to grow their customer base. These included television ads, print ads, and targeting of professional sporting even...
2000 May 18 Boo.com Goes Bust
Boo.com was a British Internet company founded by Swedes Ernst Malmsten, Kajsa Leander and Patrik Hedelin that famously went bust following the dot-com boom of the late 1990s. After se...
2000 Nov 6 Pets.com Announces Closure
Pets.com is a former dot-com enterprise that sold pet supplies to retail customers. It began operations in February 1999 and folded in November 2000. A high profile marketing campaign gav...
2001 Webvan Collapses
Webvan was an online "credit and delivery" grocery business that went bankrupt in 2001. It was headquartered in Foster City, California, USA, near Silicon Valley. It delivered products to...
2001 Jan 28 Super Bowl XXXV Features Three Dot-Com Companies
Public awareness campaigns were one of the ways in which dot-coms sought to grow their customer base. These included television ads, print ads, and targeting of professional sporting even...
2001 Mar Go.com Switches To Goto.com
The Disney Interactive Media Group (DIMG, pronounced DIMM-GEE), formerly known as the Walt Disney Internet Group and Disney Interactive Studios, oversees various websites and interactive ...
2001 Mar 7 eToys Files for Bankruptcy
eToys Announces Bankruptcy Filing and Securities Delisting Los Angeles, March 7, 2001—eToys, Inc. (NASDAQ:ETYS) today announced that it has filed a voluntary petition for reorganiz...
2001 Apr Kozmo.com Closes
Kozmo.com was a venture-capital-driven online company that promised free one-hour delivery of anything from DVD rentals to Starbucks coffee in the United States. It was founded by young i...
2001 Aug 26 Flooz.com Announces Closure
Flooz.com was a dot-com venture, now defunct, based in New York City that went online in February 1999, promoted by comic actress Whoopi Goldberg in a series of television advertisements....
2003 Oct AOL Time Warner Drops "AOL" From Name in Wake of Dot-Com Bubble Burst
In 2000, a new company called AOL Time Warner, with Steve Case as chairman, was created when AOL purchased Time Warner for US$164 bn. The deal, announced on 10 January 2000 and officially...
2009 Oct 26 GeoCities Goes Off The Internet
On April 23, 2009, Yahoo! announced that it would be closing GeoCities, and stopped accepting new registrations, though the existing GeoCities accounts remained active. In late June 2009,...
2009 Oct 26 Yahoo, Inc. Closes Once-Iconic GeoCities Website
We always imagined how this might end: GeoCities would finally take down all of the animated "under construction" signs, and we'd hear one last Midi file to the tune of horns playing taps...