Dot Com BuBBle Stock Certificates By Bob.com Kerstein, CEO Scripophily.com © 2016 All Rights Reserved – American Stock and Bond Collectors Association LLC – ASBCA- ScripophilyUSA.org

Background history from Wikipedia and OldCompany.com. Dot Com Boom and Bust The dot-com bubble (also referred to as the dot-com boom, the Internet bubble, the dot-com collapse, and the information technology bubble) was a historic speculative bubble covering roughly 1997–2000 (with a climax on March 10, 2000, with the NASDAQ peaking at 5,132.52 in intraday trading before closing at 5,048.62) during which stock markets in industrialized nations saw their equity value rise rapidly from growth in the Internet sector and related fields. While the latter part was a boom and bust cycle, the Internet boom is sometimes meant to refer to the steady commercial growth of the Internet with the advent of the World Wide Web, as exemplified by the first release of the Mosaic web browser in 1993, and continuing through the 1990s. The period was marked by the founding (and, in many cases, spectacular failure) of several new Internet-based companies commonly referred to as dot-coms. Companies could cause their stock prices to increase by simply adding an “e-” prefix to their name or a “.com” to the end, which one author called “prefix investing.” A combination of rapidly increasing stock prices, market confidence that the companies would turn future profits, individual speculation in stocks, and widely available venture capital created an environment in which many investors were willing to overlook traditional metrics, such as P/E ratio, in favor of basing confidence on technological advancements. The collapse of the bubble took place during 1999–2001. Some companies, failed completely. Others lost a large portion of their market capitalization but remained stable and profitable, e.g., Cisco, whose stock declined by 86%. Some later recovered and surpassed their dot-com-bubble peaks, e.g., eBay.com, and Amazon.com whose stock went from 107 to 7 dollars per share, but a decade later exceeded 500. Background history from Wikipedia and OldCompany.com. © 2016 All Rights Reserved – American Stock and Bond Collectors Association LLC – ASBCA- ScripophilyUSA.org

Amazon.com - Dot Com - Old Logo on Certificate - 2001 Beautifully engraved Certificate from Amazon.com. This historic document was printed by the United States Banknote Corporation and has an ornate block border with a vignette of the old company logo. Printed signature of Jeff Bezos as CEO. © 2016 All Rights Reserved – American Stock and Bond Collectors Association LLC – ASBCA- ScripophilyUSA.org

America Online, Incorporated AOL ( Pre Time Warner Merger ) Steve Case as Chairman Beautifully engraved hard to find specimen certificate from America Online, Incorporated . This historic document was printed by the American Banknote Company and has an ornate border around it with a vignette of the America Online company logo. © 2016 All Rights Reserved – American Stock and Bond Collectors Association LLC – ASBCA- ScripophilyUSA.org

Broadband.com (Dot Com High Flyer) airplane designed by Burt Rutan Specimen Stock Certificate from Broadband.com dated September 22, 1998 (The date of the Airplane's Inaugural Flight) . Vignette and underprint of the HALO Proteus Airplane designed by Burt Rutan was included in the list of the "100 Best of the 20th Century", by Time Magazine. Printed signatures of CEO, Marc Arnold and, EVP and CEO Bob Kerstein. © 2016 All Rights Reserved – American Stock and Bond Collectors Association LLC – ASBCA- ScripophilyUSA.org

Netcentives - Dot Com Bankruptcy --- RARE Date Issued on September 11, 2001 Engraved RARE certificate from Netcentives issued on September 11, 2001. This historic document was printed by the United States Banknote Company and has an ornate border around it with a vignette of the Netcentives logo. © 2016 All Rights Reserved – American Stock and Bond Collectors Association LLC – ASBCA- ScripophilyUSA.org

Ask Jeeves Inc - Famous Search Engine Company Engraved Certificate from the Ask Jeeves Inc issued in 2001. This historic document was printed by the Thomas De Larue Company and has an ornate border around it with a vignette of Jeeves. This item has the printed signatures of the company's officers. © 2016 All Rights Reserved – American Stock and Bond Collectors Association LLC – ASBCA- ScripophilyUSA.org

Buy.com – Bought the Farm Stock certificate from buy.com issued in 2001. This historic document was printed by the American Banknote and has an ornate border around it with a vignette of the company's logo. Due to financial difficulties, the original founder, reacquired the company and took it private. © 2016 All Rights Reserved – American Stock and Bond Collectors Association LLC – ASBCA- ScripophilyUSA.org

DrKoop.com (Dr. C. Everett Koop as Chairman) Stock Certificate from the DrKoop.com issued in September 2000 prior to the company being delisted in 2001 from the NASDAQ. This historic document was printed by the Northern Banknote Company and has an ornate border around it with a vignette of DrKoop.com. This item has the printed signature of the famous Dr. C. Everett Koop. © 2016 All Rights Reserved – American Stock and Bond Collectors Association LLC – ASBCA- ScripophilyUSA.org

Doubleclick - Internet Advertising Company (Acquired by Google) Engraved Stock Certificate from the Doubleclick issued in 2001. This historic document was printed by the United States Banknote Company and has an ornate border around it with a vignette of the company's name. This item has the printed signatures of the company's officers.. © 2016 All Rights Reserved – American Stock and Bond Collectors Association LLC – ASBCA- ScripophilyUSA.org

Egghead.com - Famous Dot Com gets scrambled in Bankruptcy Engraved Certificate from the Egghead.com . This historic document was printed by the United States Banknote Company and has an ornate border around it with a vignette of the company's name. This item has the printed signatures of the company's officers and is truly representative of the Dot Com Era.. © 2016 All Rights Reserved – American Stock and Bond Collectors Association LLC – ASBCA- ScripophilyUSA.org

eToys.com Beautifully engraved Certificate from eToys.com issued in 2001. This historic document was printed by the Security Columbian Banknote Company and has an ornate border around it with a vignette of the famous company logo with an underprint of a toy computer. © 2016 All Rights Reserved – American Stock and Bond Collectors Association LLC – ASBCA- ScripophilyUSA.org

Inktomi Corporation ( Acquired by Yahoo ) Beautifully engraved certificate from the Inktomi Corporation issued in 2001. This historic document was printed by the Security-Columbian Banknote Company and has an ornate border around it with a vignette of the company's logo. In March of 2000, Inktomi stock was approximately $230 per share. © 2016 All Rights Reserved – American Stock and Bond Collectors Association LLC – ASBCA- ScripophilyUSA.org

iVillage.com Engraved stock certificate from iVillage.com dated 2001. This historic document was printed by the Security-Columbian Banknote Company and has an ornate border around it with a vignette of the company's logo and and underprint of children holding hands. Printed signatures of the company's CEO/Chairman and Secretary. © 2016 All Rights Reserved – American Stock and Bond Collectors Association LLC – ASBCA- ScripophilyUSA.org

Lycos, Inc. (Early internet search engine company) RARE SPECIMEN - Delaware 1998 Engraved specimen certificate from the Lycos, Inc dated 1998. This historic document was printed by American Bank Note Company and has an ornate border around it with a vignette of the company's logo. This item has the printed signature of the Company's President and Founder, Robert Davis. This is only the second time we have had this certificate for sale. © 2016 All Rights Reserved – American Stock and Bond Collectors Association LLC – ASBCA- ScripophilyUSA.org

Millionaire.com ( Dot Com Bomb - Stock should have been renamed to Pennyaire) - Nevada 2001 Certificate from Millionaire.com issued in 2001. This historic document has an ornate border around it with a vignette of the company's name with a globe in lieu of an "o". This item has the printed signatures of the Company’s President, Robert L. White and Secretary, and is over 15 years old © 2016 All Rights Reserved – American Stock and Bond Collectors Association LLC – ASBCA- ScripophilyUSA.org