In March of 2000, I registered the domain "TheTulipFund.com" [1] with a manifest of goods used to pay for Tulip bulbs infected with the crazed virus, which was lifted Levine's book[2] on viruses. It started as a joke around a dinner party about buying up dead dot coms. At the time, my company was preparing to go public in April. The joke was on me.

Meanwhile, NFTs -- I have to wonder what's different.

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20020928142349/http://www.thetul...

[2] https://www.amazon.com/Viruses-Scientific-American-Library-B...