The Internet changes everything. "E-tailing." "Stock options-not salary!" "Dot-com billionaire." "Cyberspace." "Internet time." "B2C." "Free Agent Nation." "New Economy." Like the language of some Stone Age culture unearthed by an enterprising anthropologist after a five-day canoe trip upriver into the jungle, the vernacular of Internet hysteria is a whisper from another era, a language with a thousand words for Web and not a single word for profit.

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