So much for that idea: Tech stocks have fallen from 1999 to 2008

Courtesy CNET Tech blog  Mon, 10/13/2008 - 6:00am

Call it the Nasdaq's lost decade, or at least its lost nine years. If you bought shares in most tech companies in October 1999 and sold them today, you would have lost money.

And then there's inflation.


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