Aeron chair
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The Aeron chair is an office chair manufactured and sold by American furniture company Herman Miller. Introduced in 1994, it was designed by Don Chadwick and Bill Stumpf and departed from the design o
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President Barack Obama seated in an Aeron chair while writing his State of the Union address in 2015
Dot-com bubble
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The dot-com bubble was a stock market bubble that developed during the late 1990s and peaked on March 10, 2000. This period of market growth coincided with the widespread adoption of the World Wide We
Aeron chair
…exceeded Herman Miller's expectations. Aeron chairs were popular in the offices of Internet startups in the late 1990s, and became associated with the dot-com bubble. Wired noted, "In Silicon Valley, especially, it quickly became a status symbol, visually synonymous with the optimism of the dot-com boom." A 2006…
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