Week 11 Activity
Dona Loe
The Dot.com Boom
- speculative bubble in the shares of early internet companies
- stocks on internet based things rose
Microsoft and Bill Gates
- A computer software
- 10 million copies in first two years
- Widely used Windows system
IBM
IBM very big
has over 6,000 partners in its industry
Amazon.com
one of the biggest website in the world
currently ranked number 5 and still growing
Yahoo.com
Becomes a big search engine
Microsoft buys into Yahoo!
Dell
Dell sells computers
Teams up with Microsoft windows
E-Bay
A place to buy things over the internet for lower cost
Used to be called AuctionWeb
PC Era
The Rise of the PC Era was a big change
Many people bought PC computers over Apple computers
Why the Dot.com Era eventually led to a economic bubble that bursted
Dot.com was powered by the rise of Internet sites and the tech industry in general, and many of these companies went under or learned some valuable lessons when the bubble finally burst. Many investors lost substantial sums of money. This then led to a small economic recession.
Pretict how the Dot.com bubble might relate to technology trends today
Many people today use the internet on the daily. This major use of the internet can cause the Dot.com bubble to happen again.