Excerpted from   FORTUNE Magazine  Street Life, 
                 Wanna Know What's Up for 1999? 
                 Andrew Serwer  2/15/99 p.209

Internet stocks: Back to the main event. They
will tank--if they haven't already--and then
come back. And maybe tank again. I'll tell you,
right now things are out of control with these
puppies. I was riding home in a cab the other
night from my hoop game with my buddy Dave
and the cabdriver hears us talking Net stocks.
"Oh," he says in a heavy Pakistani accent, "I 
own Mindspring and Lycos. So far I've made
$138,000." Dave shakes his head and says, "And
we're paying this guy ten bucks for the ride?" 
By the way, get ready for a whole new cast of
Net-stock characters. Remember, at this time
last year no one had ever heard of eBay or
Broadcast.com. So start putting these names on
your radar screen: Pacific Internet,
Priceline.com, iVillage, and barnesandnoble.com.
Some of 'em are sure to be heavy-metal thunder.