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Question: Did you cry when the dot-com bubble burst?
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No, but I was visibly shaken.		  
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No, because I was too young to understand how the world had been changed... forever.		  
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« on: March 09, 2010, 04:30:26 PM »
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« Reply #1 on: March 09, 2010, 04:35:06 PM »
No, I approved wholeheartedly.
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« Reply #2 on: March 09, 2010, 04:48:37 PM »
No. I got lucky and liquidated my non-IRA mutual funds to buy my first home (a condo) before most of the post-burst drop in the market occurred. After I made a decent bit of money (to me anyway) on the stock market rise in the mid to late 90's I felt I had very little to complain about.
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« Reply #3 on: March 09, 2010, 05:07:31 PM »
No. I was too busy learning basic arithmetic and charging round playgrounds to worry.

Just 20...
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« Reply #4 on: March 09, 2010, 05:13:11 PM »
yes, i was crying at the time, but it was just a coincidence.
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« Reply #5 on: March 09, 2010, 05:13:15 PM »
No, I cried when the McCain/Palin bubble burst in late September 2008
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« Reply #6 on: March 09, 2010, 05:26:20 PM »
Quote from: Reaganfan on March 09, 2010, 05:13:15 PM
No, I cried when the McCain/Palin bubble burst in late September 2008

I sat back and said, I told you so. Smiley
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« Reply #7 on: March 09, 2010, 05:34:34 PM »

You could have cried out of happiness.
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« Reply #8 on: March 09, 2010, 07:31:12 PM »
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« Reply #9 on: March 09, 2010, 07:50:20 PM »

its pretty amazing how the bubble even got started.
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« Reply #10 on: March 09, 2010, 08:36:41 PM »
No


If I recall correctly, you said you would leave.
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« Reply #11 on: March 09, 2010, 10:58:22 PM »
No, because that was one bubble that was pretty obvious to me was extant, and not sustainable, and my investment portfolio was adjusted accordingly. Stocks in general were overpriced compared to the risk from about 1994 or so until well, relatively recently. So I kept my exposure down, and avoided larger cap growth mutual funds like the plague.
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« Reply #12 on: March 10, 2010, 12:06:24 AM »
My portfolio cried.

Actually, my parents, at the advice of my granddad, stayed away from those risky internet stocks because my grandfather felt the old blue chips were a better bet, and he didn't believe in this new fad called the internet.
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« Reply #13 on: March 10, 2010, 12:12:21 AM »
I didn't care. I was living in the Seattle area and was slightly amused though(as a 12/13 year old)...
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« Reply #14 on: March 10, 2010, 01:39:25 AM »
I think that I'm the only poster who lived in Santa Clara County at the time. Even as a 5-year-old, I could visibly see the effects, and they were very bad.
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« Reply #15 on: March 10, 2010, 01:49:01 AM »
The only thing I remember from the dot com bubble were all the internet company commercials on TV and some news report about a guy locked in an apartment who had to order everything he needed on the internet.

Everybody was like "OMG LOLZ THIS SI SO FCOOL!"

I was like... "umm.. Sandra Bullock was ordering pizza online in like 1995... get with the times people.. it's totally 1999 now."
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« Reply #16 on: March 10, 2010, 01:50:47 AM »
DotComGuy was a failure, no?
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« Reply #17 on: March 10, 2010, 01:52:22 AM »

I don't know.. I quit watching... I was in like middle school/9th grade at the time.  And it was before cell phones were really big.. so I thought 3 way calling was about the coolest thing on earth since I couldn't drive.
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« Reply #18 on: March 10, 2010, 02:55:27 AM »
I wished that I had money to short-sell the NASDAQ. All these dot com companies with no business plan other than "get bought out". It was pretty clear that a lot of them were doomed.
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« Reply #19 on: March 10, 2010, 03:40:51 AM »
No. I was too young back then to understand. Of course, if I knew better, I would have cried a lot later that year when Gore lost to Bush Jr.
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« Reply #20 on: March 10, 2010, 03:46:46 AM »
It was a bubble that needed to burst.  A lot of really smart webmasters' bad ideas were taking dumb venture capitalist's hard earned money.

Now, money is being invested into actual innovations (some using a web interface).  Instead of just web interfaces.
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« Reply #21 on: March 10, 2010, 04:20:17 AM »
Nope, had no idea this was even going on back then.
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« Reply #22 on: March 10, 2010, 06:32:00 AM »
None of the answers fit for me.  Old enough to notice, not in a position to worry about such things.  I don't think I've ever cried for a national "event" like this.  I'm more apt to cry at particularly good "not so fresh feeling" commercials.
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« Reply #23 on: March 10, 2010, 06:39:57 AM »
Quote from: Jai Guru Deva on March 10, 2010, 03:46:46 AM
It was a bubble that needed to burst.  A lot of really smart webmasters' bad ideas were taking dumb venture capitalist's hard earned money.

Now, money is being invested into actual innovations (some using a web interface).  Instead of just web interfaces.

Pretty much this. Similar things have happened in the past - rail etc. It's unsustainable and the sooner it becomes an established stable industry, the better.
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« Reply #24 on: March 10, 2010, 11:51:32 AM »

I said i would post less
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