The Dot-Com Bubble: Hype, Hysteria, and the Internet Crash
The Dot-Com Bubble was a major stock market bubble in the late 1990s, roughly spanning from 1995 to its peak on March 10, 2000. It was characterized by a massive, rapid, and ultimately unsustainable rise in the valuation of shares in Internet service and technology companies—the so-called “dot-coms.” Fueled by the proliferation of the World…