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I'd made it out alive and unscathed, but everything behind me had collapsed in a writhing cloud of smoke and molten, raining debris. history.ДЄt that point, I felt a little like Indiana Jones at the end of the Temple of Doom.

That was five months before the Dot Com Crash and exactly two years before Exodus Communications' bankruptcy precipitated the failure of Global Crossings, the seventh largest Chapter 11 filing in U.S. By 1999, I was convinced that the party couldn't last much longer, so I sold BugNet - providentially refusing stock options in Exodus Communications, a Fortune 100 company, and taking all my chips off the table in cash. In those boisterous days, the money was huge, the growth was explosive, and so was the competition for it. I had my fingers on the technical pulse of the entire industry, and from that vantage point I watched company after company come out of nowhere with products - like Netscape Navigator and Vermeer FrontPage - which defined entire product categories overnight, and ultimately changed the face of human culture globally.

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How things have changed in just 15 years! At the turn of the century, I was in wonderful position to watch the American personal computer / Internet revolution at full flood: I founded BugNet at the dawn of the Dot Com Boom and by Y2K I'd built it into the world's largest supplier of PC bug fixes. NOWHERE IS THE COLLAPSE of American economic and technological power more obvious than in the realm of popular American software, especially Web mastering software. Section 1 - The Digital Rip Van Winkle Returns Home * Books * Journalism * Graphic Arts * Video * Store