Words at Play : Top 10 Words of the '90s

#8: Dot-com

The digital revolution uploaded a huge batch of new terms into the language: Internet, the Web, spyware, MP3, the prefix e-, etc.

Dot-com evokes memories of the 90s: startups boomed in the decade's stock market bubble – then went bust in the collapse that followed.

These days, successful online ventures simply call themselves businesses.

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