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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 6, 2004
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dot com dat ho

Putting a bitch on blast status; burning a loud-mouth to the fullest in front of erryone.
This bitch was gettin on my nerves, gettin a little too hyphy all up in my face - I had to dot com dat ho!
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dot com bird

brotha auto: i think it's someone who owns a website
brotha auto: or makes money off websites
by sammy obeid September 7, 2003
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dot com dater

Someone who only dates people they meet on dating websites.
Joe: Introduce me to your coworker.

Mike: It's a waste of time. She's a dot com dater.
by 2014_chiguy May 24, 2014
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twitter dot com

A website where everyone will leak your nudes. Terrible for people with small dicks.
WHO POSTED MY NUDES ON TWITTER DOT COM?!?!
Oh no, OHHH NO they post it all the way on the fucking islands, now everyone's gonna know about my secret egg dick!
by Some weirdo who is here. November 28, 2019
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om nom nom dot com :)

A fun phrase to say when somebody is eating something, the original usage of this word began as "nom nom nom" and was largely used online for lawlcats and the like. After the popularity of "dot com" in song and web, the dot com was added largely because it rhymed.
Chelsie : This apple is good...
Albert : om nom nom dot com :)=
by Ace Dizzy Azn October 23, 2009
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Twitter dot com

Where Shadow the Hedgehog uploaded Dr. Eggman's nudes.
WHO POSTED MY NUDES ON TWITTER DOT COM!?
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