Dot-com bubble
= Dot-com bubble
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The Dot-com bubble was a period of excessive speculation in the late 1990s and early 2000s, characterized by the rapid rise and fall of internet-based companies' stock prices. During this time, a surge of investment in internet-related businesses led to the creation and proliferation of many dot-com companies, often characterized by their ".com" domain names.