Remember the dot com boom?
All you had to do was get a domain and you were guaranteed to make a million... or so they had all believe
Of course it didn't last and even if it had lasted longer not everybody would have been a success...
Dot Com Archive is a project based in the University of Maryland that has been setup to collect "survivors" recollections. They've also set up a sister site Business Plan Archive to collect business plans oddly enough.
off topic: I'm not a fan of the roll-over links and it appears grey box thing. It doesn't really add anything to the user experience.
danger - I'll probably remove it. I was playing with them last night to see what they looked like :)
Michele