сторінка 220 вправа 1 гдз 11 клас англійська мова Морська 11 рік 2019

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In the mid to late 1990s, thousands of new companies were held up with one purpose: to benefit from the explosion of interest in the Internet. Large corporations were happy to invest millions in the weirdest website ideas, confident that they would make prosperity over time. Most of them didn't. Indeed, the vast majority of them have gone bust, leaving their investors severely out of pocket. So what went wrong?
The main mistake that companies made was to forget to ask how their dot.com company (as interest-based companies are sometimes called) would actually make a profit. It sounds fairly obvious now, but in the rush to "get on the net", the whole concept was reviewed. There was also a second problem which dot.corns did not regard. Yes, Internet traffic was increasing enormously, but people still felt uncomfortable - many still do, in fact - about buying products and services online. Even if the dot.corns had come up with sensible business ideas, it's unlikely they would have brought in enough to cover their initial investment.
There were some exceptions, of course. Some companies have been hugely successful on the Internet. Most, however, found it wasn't as easy to run an Internet business as they'd thought.