Dot-com craze peaked 10 years ago this week

netbuzz writes: When the NASDAQ stock index hit its all-time high of 5,133 on March 10, 2000, it had more than doubled in a year and the dot-com bubble was already leaking in a big way. A week later the NASDAQ had fallen 9 percent. A year later all of those NASDAQ gains were gone and then some, as well as such poster children of the era as Pets.com, Kozmo and – who could forget? – Whoopi’s Flooz. Here’s a look back.