Meet the New Economy. Same as the Old Economy

Wednesday

Adam Lashinsky on the State of the Internet

Dan Colarusso on Internet Growth Projections

Katherine Hobson on E-tailers' Push for Profitability

Catherine Valenti on Ailing Internet Funds

Jamie Heller on Using the Net to Track Net Stocks

Thursday

Tracy Byrnes on the Frenzy Next Time

George Mannes on Self-Hating Dot-Coms

K.C. Swanson on Old Economy Winners

David Gaffen on Measuring the Internet Economy

Friday

Ian McDonald on 'Butterfly' Companies

Justin Lahart on Real Net Valuations

Joe Bousquin on Building the Perfect Net Company

A Dan Gross Opinion Piece: Were the Old Guys Right?

TSC Roundtable on Predicting Six-Month Winners

Roland Jones on The Last Days of Daytrading

Eric Gillin on Working for a Dot-Com

In the early 1990s, when rotisserie chicken outlets Boston Market and Kenny Rogers Roasters were sprouting up all over, KFC installed ovens in its franchises nationwide, immediately becoming the largest seller of rotisserie chicken in the country.

McDonald's (MCD Quote) owns Boston Market these days, and Nathan's purchased Kenny Rogers' a few years back.

The Internet is hardly the passing fad rotisserie chicken was, but it's an apt parallel that illustrates how established companies can benefit from a new technology in ways many companies based off the new technology cannot. Despite the public deflation of the Internet bubble, the overall economy isn't overly tarnished by their decline. It seems as if the rest of the country has simply caught up to the Internet. ...