Dot-Coms

  • California GOP parties like it's 1999

    Two dot-com bubble CEOs eye the Golden State's biggest races
    By Gabriel Winant July 10, 2009

  • It's never too early for dot-com nostalgia

    "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

  • Toys were us

    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

  • Remembrance of dot-com idiocy past

    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

  • Even lamer than a busted dot-com

    "F'd Companies," Philip Kaplan's obituary for online flameouts, is more pathetic than the companies it skewers.
    By Damien Cave April 10, 2002

  • California scheming

    "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

  • Hope for the professionally unemployed

    The market is booming for tales of the out-of-work.
    By Tom McNichol January 9, 2002

  • The day the brands died

    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

  • The not-com downturn

    Bankruptcies! Layoffs! Has the old economy bubble popped?
    By Damien Cave May 4, 2001

  • Elegy for Kozmo

    We come to bury the defunct dot-com delivery service, not to praise it.
    By Damien Cave April 13, 2001

  • I can't get laid off

    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

  • Life on the verge of a dot-com breakdown

    We've got our résumés ready, savings in the bank and our fingers crossed.
    By Amanda Nielsen January 25, 2001

  • The day I killed my dot-com

    By Jennifer Jeffrey
    By   December 13, 2000

  • Let's make a toast to failure

    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

  • San Francisco's Proposition L is "too close to call"

    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

  • San Francisco to dot-com developers: No more

    Voters pass anti-growth measure Proposition L by a slim margin.
    By Andrew Leonard November 8, 2000

  • Enter the "yettie"

    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

  • Clamping down on high-tech growth is good for high-tech

    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

  • Is the Internet a bad, bad boy?

    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

  • I miss crack babies

    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

  • Ballot measure threatens San Francisco dot-coms

    Sparse attendance at a pro-business rally spreads panic in an industry under siege.
    By Damien Cave September 29, 2000

  • Dot-com dance party!

    Can Web monkeys be persuaded to salsa their way out of their cubes?
    By Katharine Mieszkowski September 26, 2000

  • Dottie Downturn's trauma

    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

  • Back in the saddle.com

    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

  • Don't call us

    We'll call you, dot-com publicists, if we ever want to use your silly story ideas.
    By Janelle Brown August 14, 2000
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