Dot-bomb in full boom

Those were the days, the heady times in 1999/2000 when every idiot with an idea (and some without) was drowning in venture capital because the deluded men in suits thought this interweb thingy was going to be BIG.

Symptomatic of this excess was the insane parade of dot-coms who paid sums far in excess of their annual incomes to place TV ads during the 2000 SuperBowl. Most of the businesses are not even footnotes in history now but Forbes magazine's round-up (with footage) is an insight into a brief moment when just about anything seemed viable, so long as it had an 'i' in front of it.