Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau for April 17, 2023

I really don’t want to explain the economics of the 1990’s and the dot com bubble.

The good old days. LOL

Kim’s disappearing/reappearing top strap is back.

How does that pince-nez stay on Mike’s face??

I bet if Alex took over there would be a profit!!

It’s all those coffee mugs and stress balls that’s eating your bottom line!!!!

You need not go to the 1990’s just look at what Joe Biden has done to our country , and he is not done yet : (

“Investors already are in the hole…”

I worked at one of the early .coms. The president and cfo were old-school thinkers who thought by old economy rules. They busted their humps to shuffle the books and make us the first .com to turn a profit. And the market hated that.

Thank goodness for negative numbers! but they will soon need imaginary numbers…

It still amazes me that Mike was able to get a smokeshow like Kim

Is it time for MyVulture? Alex to the rescue.

I am in the hole and I haven’t even finished starting up my business yet.

It’s a good thing we wised up and quit falling for dot-com failures, and started falling for crypto scams instead.

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Is there something about the combination of the words “get rich quick” that just short-circuits the human brain?

Back then, small-timers would offer to trade you “links” on their site for something of actual value.

So “ramping up” didn’t even increase online sales.

I remember during the dotcom boom that many people were saying with a straight face that making a profit or at least breaking even wasn’t necessary.