ha. no..
It's funny because most of the "dot com" idiots were simply scam artists and nothing further. The truly intelligent saw this "crash" coming WAY back, if things didn't get better. (i.e. companies that make no revenue will NOT last very long. duh.)
I too, worked for a kind of "dot com". Bah. I left shortly after I started because the entire attitude there was "fsck the customer, fsck the investors, lets just hurry up and IPO or get bought out so we can all cash out on our stock options and be rich!". Yeah.. Right. Great company to work for eh? This was how 99% of the stupid ass companies were ran. The few that do have somewhat solid business plans and morals will still survive. Plus, this can only be a good thing for the truly talented tech workers. No more idiots that make $70k/yr because they have 4 letters they bought after their name and can draw pretty diagrams in visio. I can't wait to see idiot co-workers falling by the wayside, going back to stupid office-bitch jobs that they so sorely deserve. That said, this if course hurt some very good and talented people. But these people will quickly recover, just as the economy will.
In my opinion a lot of the idiots who started these companies need to go to jail. I'm also happy "investors" lost billions, because perhaps they'll not do it again. I have absolutely no sympathy for anyone who invested it stupid fool-headed ideas, who HAD to have known some company losing millions a month is NOT worth more than say a GM or GE..
All I can say is good riddance. It's about time.
-Phil