2. WHAT IS DOTCOM BUBBLE
• The "dot-com bubble“ was a speculative bubble covering
roughly 1995–2000 during which stock markets in
industrialized nations saw their equity value rise rapidly from
growth in the more recent Internet sector and related fields.
3. INTERNET BOOM
• The Internet boom sometimes is meant to refer to the steady
commercial growth of the Internet with the advent of the world
wide web as exemplified by the first release of the Mosaic web
browser in 1993 and continuing through the 1990s.
4. INTERNET-BASED COMPANIES
• The period was markeof a group of new Internet-based
companies commonly referred to as dot-coms. Companies
were seeing their stock prices shoot up if they simply added an
"e-" prefix to their name and/or a ".com" to the end, which one
author called "prefix investing."d by the founding
5. THE ENVIRONMET
• A combination of rapidly increasing stock prices, market
confidence that the companies would turn future
profits, individual speculation in stocks, and widely available
venture capital created an environment in which many
investors were willing to overlook traditional metrics such as
P/E ratio in favor of confidence in technological
advancements.
6. THEDOTCOM BUBBLE
• The dotcom bubble started without the world wide web, and
indeed in the beginning it did not even recognize the Internet
as important. Once Al Gore began talking about the
"information superhighway" in the early 1990s, however, the
"big end of town" - Hollywood, Silicon
Valley, telecommunications carriers, cable companies, and
media conglomerates, all began investing.
7. THEDOTCOM BUBBLE
• Between April 1992 and July 1993 all of the major US
business magazines had published major features on new
communications and the "Information Superhighway".
• Its worth analyzing what these magazines and feature articles
talked about.
• The first thing I noticed - not one of the feature articles I
picked up mentioned the Internet.
• It was not on the business horizon of this brave new
converged world of Silicon Valley and Hollywood.
8. THEDOTCOM BUBBLE
• Business Weeks July 12 1993 edition had a cover story "Media
Mania・digital - interactive - multimedia - the rush is on".
• Time Warners Gerard Levin talked of switching home
televisions to "anything, anywhere".
• Electronic books and magazines were about to change the
world. Interactive TV would get to 20% of US homes by the
turn of the century.
9. THEDOTCOM BUBBLE
• Gerard Levin was also in Newsweeks edition of May 31 1993.
• The cover story was a zillion dollar industry. The dotcom
indifference to the number of zeroes in monetary figures seems
to have had its origins about this time.
• Levin was going to get his bank balances on TV. Couch
potatoes would be able to individualise the endings of movies
and select camera angles for sporting events.
• Intelligent agents in the refrigerator would tell the car to
remember that it was out of milk.
