You're talking about the dotcom bubble! A time in history where enormous amounts of money were thrown down enormous amounts of overhyped wells, and almost all o

You're talking about the dotcom bubble! A time in history where enormous amounts of money were thrown down enormous amounts of overhyped wells, and almost all of them turned out to be stupidly bad business. People mocking that waste of money were 99% right, and Google is one of the very few exceptions.