Dot-Coms

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  • Can dot-coms house the poor?

    A San Francisco development offers cheap rent to start-ups that will teach HTML to low-income tenants.
  • A poster child for Internet idiocy

    Voyeurism! Consumerism! Hype! DotComGuy is a human incarnation of the worst the Net has to offer.
  • Dear Dottie Downturn

    Back by popular demand, Salon's mistress of new-economy etiquette offers advice to troubled dot-commers.
  • So you wanna be a dot-com star

    Pamela Anderson, Britney Spears, Cindy Crawford and scads of celebs are joining Net start-ups. Why?
  • Dear Dottie Downturn

    Salon's mistress of manners offers etiquette advice for the nouveau poor.
  • Lay off the layoff stories

    The dot-com business press is going ga-ga over dot-com layoffs. Enough, already.
  • Failing is fun!

    Did your start-up go bankrupt? Are you out of a job? A new Web site will help you network with other dot-com failures.
  • Fumble.com

    Internet companies threw millions into the air at the Super Bowl. They're still pretending they scored a touchdown.
  • Dot-com party madness

    Forget about return on investment. Bay Area tech companies spend $1 million a month on food, drink and music in exchange for "buzz."
  • "AllThePornYouCanEat.Com"

    The increasingly humorless dot-com industry inspires a DIY revolution -- and lots of witty domain names.
  • Howl.com

    (with apologies to Allen Ginsberg)
  • Harper's bizarre

    Where are the pizza boxes and polo shirts? A fashion mag shoots Silicon Valley and finds Prada in the cubes.
  • My dot-com business mags have fallen on me and I can't get up!

    Ad-fat magazines like the Industry Standard, Business 2.0 and the Red Herring have swelled to telephone-book size. But who has time to read 3,000 pages a month?
  • Why I'm still scribbling for a living

    When a stock trade cost me my job writing about Silicon Valley, everyone assumed I would join a dot-com and get rich. But I'm a newspaper journalist.
  • Dot-com addiction

    The resolution of a few domain-name disputes offers some breathing room in the crowded Net name arena. But is it enough?
  • How much for that doggie in the dot-com ad?

    Pets.com auctions off its mascot, a singing sock puppet-pooch, raising some serious cash for charity.
  • Super Bowl ads: Winners and losers

    Ad biz pooh-bahs at a New York party critique the good, the bad and the dot-coms in the industry's biggest showcase.
  • The Dot-cominator

    If you're going to dot-com yourself, Sun wants to help. That's just what its new ads are trying to say.
  • Can Linux billionaires carry the free-software torch?

    As dot-com mania sends shares in open-source companies soaring, the movement searches its soul.
  • I kissed him! Janelle Brown meets Mahir

    Across a crowded room (filled to bursting with dot-commers and nude models), our intrepid reporter spots the Turkish stud.
  • Dot-com dogs

    With Net-stock fever showing no signs of cooling, mediocre IPOs are growing as plentiful as fleas on a stray hound.
  • Gang land

    Can the same entertainment media that have popularized gang culture be used to combat gang-related violence? Plus: Men who collect penis bones; capital punishments throughout human history.
  • Did the Internet really ruin San Francisco?

    When a Salon article suggested that the dot-commers had killed everything wacky and wonderful about San Francisco, our mailbox was flooded with reader replies. The debate continues here.
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