[acdha]

Your general point is true and worth repeating but that's a very weak example: pets.com and the rest of the bubble companies were overhyped by speculators for business reasons and failed for reasons which have very little to do with the technology which they happened to use. In that particular example, having had some professional interactions with some of their senior web developers makes me inclined to say that they were if anything tech-starved rather than dominated.