Citations:dot-carnage

English citations of dot-carnage

Noun: "(slang) the results of the dot-com bubble collapse, which included the closure of many Internet-based businesses, and significant financial losses for others"

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• 2001, Tina Swanson, "Dot-com downfall doesn’t deter Netcos", Variety, 11 January 2001:

  While there has been no lack of dot-carnage, NATPE hasn’t seen a drop in attendance, expecting more than 130 new-media companies to exhibit their wares this year.

• 2001, Marja Mills, "Slang reveals our glee over dot-coms becoming dot-bombs", Chicago Tribune, 14 August 2001:

  You can almost hear the glee in some of the terms regularly being coined these days to describe the "dot-carnage" that has come with the "tech wreck," the sharp downturn in fortunes.

• 2002, John Moran, "Hot sales, sour stocks and other technology highlights of 2002", The Spokesman-Review, 29 December 2002:

  The dot-carnage extends even to Internet companies still in business.

• 2003, Yuval Rosenberg, "E-Stocks Rise Again After a stomach-turning descent, Internet stocks have come racing back--this time with profits. We've found three that can go higher.", Fortune, 1 September 2003:

  Given the dot-carnage of the past few years, it's only natural that runs like those, when connected to companies associated with the Net, would leave investors pondering the dreaded B word: bubble.

• 2006, Business Week, Issues 3974-3981, page 115:

  Mika Salmi's atomfilms.com survived the dot-carnage and is thriving on broadband