dot com bust

When the dot com boom faltered in 2000/2001

Once upon a time when the www was still a new thing, a bunch of people realised the possiblity for income from this new resource. Thus, the comercialisation of the www began. As computer and internet access became more accessable via cheeper prices and more availablity, the amount of money dot coms brought in was in some cases incredible. Thus, we ended up with dom com billionare senarios where (for example) 21-year-olds were becomming rich in some cases very quickly.

Unfortunatly, it wasen't meant to last. Much of the dot com income came from advertising via banner ads and pop-ups.

Unfortunatly, as people grew tired of these and learned to ignore the banners and close the pop-ups the second they appeard (and started using pop-up blockers), the value of online advtertising rapidly fell. Suddenly, the amount of revenue gained from ads plumeted and (as an example) it started taking like thirty clicks or views of an ad to earn as much compensation as one would get.

Saldly, a lot of dom coms coudlen't keep up and what accounted for much on their income vanished.

In a matter of months, what was a booming industry suddenly became a bust industry. dom coms were failing right left forward and center, people were losing jobs with their entire investments lost because the companies stock prices plumeted and the job market was flooded with former dom com employees desperatly seeking employment.

Since so many people thought the dom com boom would last forever, they had invested a lot of money in dot com companies. They too ended up losing massive revenue and in some cases had to lay off a employees their losses were so severe.

As a result, we now have more unemployed computer professionals then any other industry COMBINED and finding a computer job is incredibly difficult.
I lost my job durring the dot com bust and wasen't able to get another computer job. I'm now working in a warehouse for minimum wage.
by anonymous November 06, 2004
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cuntsnot

smegma that drips from a twat.
I would have gone down on her until I saw that huge nasty blob of cuntsnot.
by anonymous February 21, 2004
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skills index

1. Found in the publication "The Quantification of Skill" and refers to the weighted average of the components of the MSD, the SCIA, and the FM-100
2. The leading indicator of RTS ability
Was his skills index above .7?
by anonymous July 12, 2004
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Cubanlink

To be gay and/or have extreme lameness. To suck serious dick.
"Dont be such a cubanlink!" "ahahahaha man ur one bigass cubanlink!"

"All the men seem to be attracted to that cubanlink over there..why is that?"
by Anonymous February 08, 2004
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Swindleshanks

One who cheats others out of their hard earned money by trickery of a low order
That boy be a swindleshanks if ever I saw one!!
by Anonymous April 01, 2003
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heyloo

how sarah helstip says hello
hi heyloo
by Anonymous April 11, 2003
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b kool stay in school

An expression used by wiggers who worship that dickhead Vanilla Ice. However, the people who say this are being completely hypocritical because wiggers are known for not completing school. Also, many wiggers drop out of school in order to do drugs which they think makes them more cool as if they were to finish high school. Also, the "k" used for the word "kool" should be spelled with a "c" and the "K" is obviously a reference to the KKK, something that would not like a wigger. This expression was first used by Vanilla Ice in his 1992 movie "Cool as Ice" at the very end of the film, so that is obviously where the wiggers get it from.
The wigger said:" b kool stay in school."
by Anonymous June 30, 2003
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