The Original Premiere – The Dot.com Boom. Remember the dot.com boom? You need to be over 40 to have direct experience of it from the start, so here’s a recap. It began in the mid-90s with the realisation that the internet was here to stay and a game changer in the way we live and work; leading to a frenzy of start-up companies with new business models to commercialise this opportunity, but which in many cases ignored economic necessities such as revenue and profit; culminating in a bursting bubble in 2001 with mass layoffs in the tech world, bankruptcies and wiped-out investors. It was a wild time. The memories that ... (full story)