Net Cemetery

Ant wrote to us regarding coverage of the .com dead - the Net Cemetery. It's a fun piece, which gets into the problems of covering and reviewing a medium that's changing everyday. If you're into wandering through the .com wasteland, you should also check out Ghost Sites, which does a great job of "museumifing" (sounds like transmorgify) the same type of sites.

Comments

Who would've thought?

[mosch]

As much as I hate the whole dot-com market overreaction and all, what were some of these people thinking?

zoza.com? What do you think of when you heard 'zoza.com'. That's right, absofuckinglutely nothing.

bigwords.com. what's their motto, 'tired of only being able to buy a vowel?' your guide to antidisestablishmentarianism? helping you recover from Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanicconiosis? Who cares now, they've been
Floccipoccinihilipilificated.

carorder.com, because not only do you want to buy your car online, you want to buy it from someplace you've never heard of before.

elingo.com, for all your jargon needs!

icecreamvan.com. no, i'm not kidding.

popawheelie.com, because popping wheelies in real life is dangerous, and in potential violation of traffic laws.

while nobody here likes high unemployment in the tech sector, the fact of the matter is, it's not exactly shocking that most of these places died, nor is it particularly sad to see most of them go.

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