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Early boom of the internet


It is very similar to California and Yukon gold rush, so many people dreamt of being rich, so they went into a crowded market in the hopes of making it big. That's why they need regulations on the internet, just like Canada controlled how people entered Yukon in search of gold. —

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Another name for this free-for-all of the 1990s is the “dot-com boom.” During the boom, it seemed as if almost anyone could build a website and sell it for millions of dollars. However, the “dot-com crash” that occurred later that decade seemed to say otherwise.1