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The commercial and cultural explosion of the digital age may have been born in California's Silicon Valley, but it reached its high point of riotous exuberance in NY City from 1995 to 2000 -- in Silicon Alley. In that short period of time a generation of talented, untested twenty somethings deluged the city, launching thousands of new Internet ventures and attracting billions of dollars in investment capital. The innovations they launched -- from online ads to 24-hour webcasting -- propelled both the Internet and the tech-stock boom of the late 1990s . . . until April 2000, when the NASDAQ finally burst. Weaving together the perspectives of more than 50 of the industry's leading characters, this oral history offers a look at the birth of a new medium.