Labels:book | booth | box | bulletin board | comic book | daily | desk | mountain | path | poster | sky | table | washer OCR: THE COMPUTER INDUSTRY HISTORY, CAREERS AND ETHICS 501 What about the gop com bubble? A stock market bubble refers to FIGURE 9.17 sharp rise in stock values of a particular industry, which ic later followed by Dot Com Bubble Timeline sudden decline. During the later part of the 1990s the information tech- nology sector experienced stock market bubble, which burst in 2001 (Figure 9-17 The bubble was fueled by dop com frenzy. Entrepreneurs seemed to believe that any Internet t-based business was destined for suc- May 1997 Amazon .com stock cess Investors believed that dop coms were the key to quick profits. Stock initial public offering {IPO kicks sold like hotcakes on the technology -specialized NASDAQ stock exchange off the dot com frenzy Dot com stock values soared as investors poured mone ...
