What Does Dot-Com Boom Mean?
The dot-com boom refers to the speculative investment bubble that formed around Internet companies between 1995 and 2000. The soaring prices of Internet start-ups encouraged investors to pour more money into any company with a “.com” or an “e-something” in its business plan. This excess capital encouraged Internet companies to form, often with very little planning, in order to get in on some of the easy money that was available at the time.
The dot-com boom is also known as the dot-com bubble, Internet bubble, IT bubble or Internet boom.
