if the dot-com bubble is remembered mainly for the initial public offerings of stock that made all the headlines, it’s important to remember that the actual dot-com mania, as measured by high-profile Internet IPOs coming to market, happened in a relatively brief window of time. In 1995, 7 stocks IPOed that could be termed “Internet companies.” In 1996, there were 27. In 1997, the first of the real “dot-coms” came to market, totaling 19. In 1998, there were 29. But in 1999, there were 249 Internet IPOs. And those were just the
