The lackluster debuts were part of an overall dot-coma that hit the Internet sector in trading yesterday. Amazon.com, RealNetworks, Go2Net, InfoSpace.com and many other of the area's Internet stocks each dropped a few dollars by the close of trading.
And if Sweden is coming out of its dot-coma, then so should the rest of the high-tech world.
2004, Joel Spolsky, Joel on Software, Springer-Verlag (2004), →ISBN, page 224:
There's nothing wrong with the post-new economy, if you're smart. But all the endless news about the “dot coma” says more about the lack of creativity of business press editors than anything else. Sorry, fuckedcompany.com, it was funny for a month or so, now it's just pathetic.
Noun: "(slang) a temporary outage experienced by a website"