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The Rise and Fall of Dot.Com Britain
For a heady nine months, until the spring of 2000, Britain had dot.com fever. Lastminute.com's youthful founders saw their fledgling company soar to a valuation of #750 million, and Martha Lane Fox became a media star. Clickmango.com raised #3 million in just days to sell health products online. Old-style industrial giants were edged out of the FTSE 100 by e-commerce newcomers employing handfuls of people and losing a fortune..
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Rory Cellan-Jones tells the full story of this brief, fabulous, often farcical epoch, from our own now-forgotten Net pioneers to the exclusive few who really did make untold riches - like the man who thought up Freeserve - and following the destinies of dot.coms all the way from the glitzy launch to the deserted offices after all the cash had been burned through. Dot.Bomb is the compulsive tale of a never-to-be repeated time when it seemed anyone could become an instant millionaire - at the click of a mouse!
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