The thing which really amuses me about that time is the Futurama Episode "300 big boys" from April 2003 Hermes: You invest this penny like you wanted. Dwight:

The thing which really amuses me about that time is the Futurama Episode "300 big boys" from April 2003 Hermes: You invest this penny like you wanted. Dwight: Thanks, Dad. I'm gonna take this and buy five shares of Amazon.com. Hermes: A risk-taker? That's my boy! In today's shares Amazon peaked at $5/share in December 1999 (adjusting for splits etc) but by early 2003 had collapsed to about $1. Certainly enough to joke about it as a cartoon writer. Today of course it's $250 a share.