Blast from the Bubble Past
With Facebook coming out next week I thought it would be fun to look back on some other Internet stocks and how different they are from Facebook and other recent issues.
Back in the 90s I was buying stocks of many tech names. I think at one point I probably owned every single one of them. Of course, my favorites were the high-flying names like DoubleClick, CNET, Infospace (INSP), CMGI, Internet Capital Group, Yahoo (YHOO), Excite, Netscape, AOL and Exodus Communications. Many of these names came public during the mid-90s and really exploded to finish the decade. Back then it was a different metric that caught investor attention: more eyeballs....827 more words left in this article. To read them, just click below and try Real Money FREE for 14 days.
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