Tech Bubble timeline
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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... Read more
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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... Read more
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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... Read more
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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... Read more
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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... Read more
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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... Read more
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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,... Read more
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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... Read more
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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... Read more
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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,... Read more
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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... Read more
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