The Globe and Mail Michael Mackenzie Bookmark Please log in to listen to this story. Also available in French and Mandarin. Log In Create Free Account Getting audio file ... This translation has been automatically generated and has not been verified for accuracy. Full Disclaimer Shannon Stapleton/Reuters Echoes of the past often ricochet around markets to inform the present. So, for longtime market watchers, it’s difficult not to see parallels between frothier parts of the technology sector and the dot-com boom. Current conditions are still some way off the mania of 1999, when the tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite Index powered ahead almost 90 per cent before the big bust in 2000.