21.   Remember, Inktomi bragged about its being profitable before the dot-com bubble burst, at least excluding special items.

22.   Prick the confidence and the bubble bursts.

23.   Skeptics predict that these streams of money will soon dry up, once the Internet bubble bursts.

24.   So in the years since the bubble burst, they have had almost nothing going for them.

25.   That news is no surprise on Wall Street, where housing stocks have risen sharply since the Nasdaq bubble burst.

26.   The bubble burst for some municipalities, utilities and school districts as the bankruptcy filing locked up their funds.

27.   The bubble burst when investors realized their money went to pay the French debt and line the pockets of Law and a handful of French nobles.

28.   The last meeting occurred just days before the Enron bubble burst.

29.   Then the bubble burst, and recession set in.

30.   Then the eBook industry hit the skids when the dot-com bubble burst, and few in the publishing industry wanted to talk about eBooks.