The Day the Dotcom Bust Began

The lesson we still refuse to learn about the ill-fated AOL-TimeWarner Merger

The Internet changed for me on the morning of January 10, 2000, when an editor from the New York Times called to ask if I could bang out an OpEd by that afternoon. I was thrilled. The culture of the net, which I had been writing about since the late 1980’s, was finally mainstream…