What is 9799?
1.
Numerical short-cut used in text messaging that represents the years "1997-1999: a time-period in which dotcom companies without even a decent URL could tap the NASDAQ honey-pot, if not the corporate buy-out one.
Not just Flooz. Later companies such as Skype -- founded in 2003 and acquired by Ebay like it was some kind of expensive, corporate vernerial disease in 2005 -- are also in fact 9799.
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