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Two dot-com bubble CEOs eye the Golden State's biggest races
By Gabriel Winant
July 10, 2009
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"Goin' Dot Com!" is a musical devoted to lampooning and celebrating the joys and horrors of the Internet boom, and it's funnier than it has any right to be.
By Katharine Mieszkowski
August 22, 2003
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The best book yet about the dot-com years shows how the battle between etoy and eToys.com encapsulated the idiocy -- and the idealism -- of that weird era.
By Andrew Leonard
March 4, 2003
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At least Enron and WorldCom went down because of greed. But as James Ledbetter's "Starving to Death on $200 Million a Year" reveals, the Industry Standard pissed away a fortune out of mere carelessness.
By Andrew Leonard
January 10, 2003
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"F'd Companies," Philip Kaplan's obituary for online flameouts, is more pathetic than the companies it skewers.
By Damien Cave
April 10, 2002
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"Dot.con: The Greatest Story Ever Sold" is the first good book about one of capitalism's most embarrassing debacles.
By Brad Wieners
January 9, 2002
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The market is booming for tales of the out-of-work.
By Tom McNichol
January 9, 2002
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You may have thought Webvan and Kozmo were just dot-com delivery boys. But their demise has left their customers deeply scarred and cast adrift in a suddenly meaningless universe.
By Ruth Shalit and Robin Danielson Hafitz
July 11, 2001
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Bankruptcies! Layoffs! Has the old economy bubble popped?
By Damien Cave
May 4, 2001
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We come to bury the defunct dot-com delivery service, not to praise it.
By Damien Cave
April 13, 2001
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When your company's a sinking ship, that pink slip starts looking more like a ticket to the good life.
By Lori Cox
February 26, 2001
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We've got our résumés ready, savings in the bank and our fingers crossed.
By Amanda Nielsen
January 25, 2001
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December 13, 2000
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At a South of Market "unlaunch" party, laid-off dot-com workers celebrate the start-up that could have been.
By Jodi Mardesich
November 22, 2000
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With a margin narrow enough to be called "presidential," the outcome of the anti-development measure remains up in the air.
By Damien Cave
November 11, 2000
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Voters pass anti-growth measure Proposition L by a slim margin.
By Andrew Leonard
November 8, 2000
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The "young entrepreneurial technocrat" has arrived: Finally, Mouse Jockeys
and Nerds Made Good
have an acronym of their own.
By Janelle Brown
November 7, 2000
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San Francisco's anti-development Prop L will squeeze tech firms into a battle for survival. And nothing could be better for them.
By Wagner James Au
November 6, 2000
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San Francisco's anti-growth Proposition L is an unnecessarily harsh referendum on the merits of the new economy.
By Damien Cave
November 6, 2000
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Complaining about how San Francisco is going to hell in a handbasket just ain't as easy as it used to be.
By Jade Hays
October 17, 2000
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Sparse attendance at a pro-business rally spreads panic in an industry under siege.
By Damien Cave
September 29, 2000
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Can Web monkeys be persuaded to salsa their way out of their cubes?
By Katharine Mieszkowski
September 26, 2000
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Nostalgia for the glory years, or post-dot-com downturn disorder? Whatever the case, Salon's new-economy etiquette arbiter clearly needs help.
By Dottie Downturn
September 21, 2000
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An ex-workaholic new media director who quit her job at a major magazine ponders caffeine absorption, phone interviews and choosing the perfect gig.
By Rennie Sloan
September 13, 2000
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We'll call you, dot-com publicists, if we ever want to use your silly story ideas.
By Janelle Brown
August 14, 2000
California GOP parties like it's 1999
It's never too early for dot-com nostalgia
Toys were us
Remembrance of dot-com idiocy past
Even lamer than a busted dot-com
California scheming
The day the brands died
Life on the verge of a dot-com breakdown
Enter the "yettie"
Clamping down on high-tech growth is good for high-tech
Is the Internet a bad, bad boy?
I miss crack babies
Dottie Downturn's trauma
Back in the saddle.com
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