100k_c10sely_right_now

摘要

For Lucent Technologies, the year 2000 opened with a flurry of negative rumors on Internet bulletin boards and chat rooms. Then on January 6, the company put out a press release with an earnings warning, seeming to indicate that people posting on bulletin boards and in chat rooms really did have a good idea of what was going on — despite their flaky online names such as "hot_ like_wasabe," "brain_and_the_kahuna," and "Floydian_us."