The dot-com bubble occurred from 1995-2000 when stock markets saw rapid growth in equity value from companies related to the internet and new technology. Many new internet-based companies, called dot-coms, were founded and saw their stock prices increase simply by adding "e-" or ".com" regardless of fundamentals. A combination of increased stock prices, confidence in future profits, speculation, and available venture capital created an environment where investors overlooked traditional metrics. The period started before widespread internet use and recognition of its importance, but increased after politicians discussed the "information superhighway" and major magazines began covering new communications technologies in the early 1990s.

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2. The "dot-com 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. The 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 environment
 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. History of the Internet - the
Dotcom bubble
 The dotcom bubble started without the
world wide web, and indeed in the
beginning it didn't 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. History of the Internet - the
Dotcom bubble(2)
 Between April 1992 and July 1993 all of the
major US business magazines had published
major features on new communications and
the "Information Superhighway". It's 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 wasn't on the
business horizon of this brave new converged
world of Silicon Valley and Hollywood. They
were more interested in interactive television.

8. History of the Internet - the
Dotcom bubble(3)
 Business Week's July 12 1993 edition had
a cover story "Media Mania・digital -
interactive - multimedia - the rush is on".
Time Warner's 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. History of the Internet - the
Dotcom bubble(4)
 Gerard Levin was also in Newsweek's 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. (Strangely, we are still
talking about these things a decade later).

10. References
 http://www.wisegeek.com/what-was-the-
dot-com-bubble.htm
 http://www.nethistory.info/History%20of
%20the%20Internet/dotcom.html