It's 25 years since the dot com bubble burst

The dot com bubble rose in the late 1990s, peaked on March 10, 2000, then burst, with indivudal company stocks popping like popcorn on any given day and the rest of the Nasdaq nosediving in April. Here's CNN on April 14, 2000…

The index lost over 1,000 points this week and is now off more than 34 percent from its record high set March 10 – well beyond the 20 percent decline Wall Street sees as the beginning of a bear market.

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