The DotCom Bubble occurred in California and across the U.S. in the late 1990s as internet companies saw a surge in investments. Many new online companies were started, especially in Silicon Valley, fueling massive growth in the stock market. However, by early 2000 the speculative bubble burst as many DotCom companies failed, causing stock prices and the NASDAQ index to crash over the next two years. The bubble and its bursting severely damaged the U.S. economy and led to huge losses for many individual investors.

1. The DotCom Bubble in
California
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2. Outline
● Introduction
● What DotCom Bubble?
● Happening
● Suffering
● Nasdaq Composite
● Impact
● Summary
● References

3. Introduction
● The DotCom Bubble happened at the end of
the 1990s.
● It is the unusual popularity of the DotCom
companies.
● Many of the DotCom companies were located
in California.

4. What DotCom Bubble?
● The DotCom Bubble is investment in stocks of
the DotCom companies which happened at the
end of the 1990s.
● That is the speculative investment.
● From 1996 to 2000, the NASDAQ stock index
exploded from 600 to 5,000 points.
● As a result, those investment is called the
DotCom bubble.

5. Happening
● The Internet user began to increase in number
greatly from the mid-1990s. They were seen by
companies as potential consumers.
● Immediately, businesses saw the internet as a
significant profit opportunity.
● The retailer Amazon.com became the first
online book retailer in 1994. EBay was started
in 1995 as an online auction site.
● As the internet became increasingly
commercialized, many online businesses and
their founders became rich.

6. Suffering
● At the peak of the DotCom bubble in 1999, it
was said that a new DotCom millionaire was
created every 60 seconds in Silicon Valley.
● By early 2000, reality began to fall.
● Investors soon realized that the DotCom dream
had devolved into a classic speculative bubble.
● Within months, the NASDAQ stock index
crashed from 5,000 to 2,000.

7. Nasdaq Composite

8. Impact
● The NASDAQ further plunged to 800 by 2002.
● The price of the stock of Microstrategy fell into 4
dollars from 3500 dollars per share.
● In 2001, the U.S. economy experienced the
DotCom bubble recession.
● Many people lost a significant portion of their
savings, if they had invested in tech stocks.

9. ● Summary
● The DotCom bubble was the historic
speculative bubble.
● The bubble started in the end of the 1990s, and
burst in 2000.
● Many IT-related venture business called
"DotCom companies" was established in that
period.
● There are some companies which survived till
the present.

10. References
● The Dot-Com Bubble
http://www.thebubblebubble.com/dot-com-bubble/
● Dot-Com Bubble
http://worldhistoryproject.org/topics/dot-com-bubble
● What was the Dot-Com Bubble?
http://www.wisegeek.org/what-was-the-dot-com-bubble.
htm#didyouknowout
● Wikipedia: the Dot-com Bubble
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dot-com_bubble