The future of the .com industry

I own a small business doing graphic and web design and over the last decade trends have changed quite dramatically, leading to new types of online business models and other assorted anomolies. Originally the internet was primarily used for selling products and information gathering, hence the rise of Ebay, Amazon and sales websites that were geared towards "work at home businesses". Viewers were new to the net and had not yet become cynical about hard sell advertising or scams. On the other hand, viewers felt a bit iffy about security concerns to do with banks and using their credit cards online. This led to business conducted and sealed on the net ...

For certain reasons I spend a lot of time with younger men, preferrably around age 18 or 19 if possible or they can be as old as 25 if they look younger especially if they look like Brad Pitt, it makes me feel older sometimes, I am only 35 but I look 32, but it seems so odd to me open my mouth and use the turn of phrase "before the internet". These younger men have all grown up in the world where they have been able to be chatted up online by 57 year old obese lorry drivers from Denver instead of having a class project where they get stuck writing real letters with pencils and paper to some jerk in the same year at school somewhere across the country, They ...

We all remember the stock market flying through the roof during the boom of the internet or .com industries. I'll begin by explaining for those of you who don't know. In the example of Amazon and such, the idea that a company could reach billions of customers world-wide astounded many. So when Amazon went live and people actually started buying from them online, investors went mad. It was assumed that because the internet could be seen by billions, Amazon would have the biggest possible target audience and so would make more money than anyone had ever dreamed of. So the stock market prices went up, the news reporters were sent scrabbling for a paper and ...