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The Y2K bug generated a lot of fear, but all that hype fizzled when the new millennium didn\u2019t start with a digital apocalypse. It turns out that fear was just aimed at the wrong catastrophe. While plenty were riding high on the rise of the internet beyond the Y2K scare, another disaster had been brewing since 1995\u2014and would bring them back down. But the dot-com bubble wasn\u2019t the end. The internet was here to stay. \n\nNot long after the turn of the millennium, the dot-com economy collapsed. Peter Relan points to the flawed business plans that fueled the dot-com bubble, and how many entrepreneurs and investors underestimated the complexity of building a business on the internet. Ernie Smith tells the story of Pets.com, and how a similar idea a decade later had a much better chance of succeeding. Gennaro Coufano reveals the element of luck that saved Amazon from going under \u2014and how it evolved in the aftermath. Julia Furlan reflects on the changes the dot-com bubble brought, and what\u2019s left to consider. And Brian McCullough describes how the dot-com bubble paved the way for a more resilient digital economy.