Modifies a noun

• boom: For example, service providers hosting customer files online folded suddenly at the end of the dot-com boom.

• bubble: First, the dot-com bubble in San Francisco was only the tip of the iceberg of a larger boom centered in Silicon Valley.

• bust: Viacom has maintained the most stable stock value and steady growth since the dot-com bust in 2000.

• burst: We saw the same thing when the dot-com bubble burst.

• entrepreneur: On the contrary, many dot-com entrepreneurs have discovered that more profits can be made outside the protection of the digital Panopticon.

• crash: Over optimism of this kind was the cause of many of the failures that occurred during the famous dot-com crash period.