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...public also got involved, and this caused a media frenzy. How was the dot.com market valued? The dot.com's equity was valued on visits and clicks. There was nothing to research, traditional valuing techniques went out the window. The dot.com crash Once the dot.com market started to crack, investors soon realised that these internet companies weren't really worth anything...

...public consumption. Take, for instance, the popularity of increasingly elaborate pictures of execution. Some very crude depictions of hanging appeared on flimsy sheets sold at foot of the scaffold in the 18th century. But in the early decades of the 19th century, improvements in printing and changes to the penal code increased the public’s desire for such “artwork”....

...health, including injury or old age. Versions of this type of organisation had existed for several hundred years, providing assistance through a combination of feasting and secret rites, charity and structured payments. Initially based in specific localities or aimed at specific trades or religious groups, the spread of branches and networks led to the formation of...