I guess today's theme is "how to flagellate oneself with memories of painful investing lessons". Not only remembering Pets.com, which I avoided, how about TGLO or CMTN, which I did not... I had to sell CMTN at a 101% loss. Figure that one out. TheGlobe.com was as much a laughing stock as Pets. The best thing to come out of The Bubble was this eTrade commercial:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E0_tfoTTGOQ

At least the absolute $s weren't that big for me at the time. And the lessons formed a base of experience that served me well as I had more to invest. It's been much better since.