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Excite@Home May Have To Call It Quits

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the online-excitement-lies-elsewhere dept.

Plazm writes: "C|net has a story (printer friendly version, of course) that just cropped up this morning about Excite@Home being in financial trouble. Will they befall the same fate as Covad and Loki? Good thing I just purchased my cable modem and broadband service through @Home last week so they could go out of business the next."

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  1. I have a DRY sense of humor by docstrange · · Score: 5, Funny

    I can see it now. Hungry unemployed IT workers lined up at the @homeless shelter.

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  2. So much for.. by DeePCedure · · Score: 2, Funny

    my hopes to hear the Buggles do an update and re-release called "Internet Killed the Video Star."

  3. Going Out Of Business by JohnPerkins · · Score: 2, Funny

    My sister worked at a Wherehouse at a local mall which went of business. She got a job at this pizza place which then went out of business. Then over to Kmart whose stock turned to junk bond status. Guess I should ask where she's working these days...

    1. Re:Going Out Of Business by issachar · · Score: 2, Funny

      that would be a warehouse. or did you mean a werhouse. a person who transforms into a house during the full moon?

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  4. WooHoo my SPAM will plummet!!! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    It seems all my spam is generated from users of the @home network. This also will cut down on the number of worms going through the Internet. I can't wait for AOL to go tits up so the Internet will finally be safe.

  5. OMG... Help.. I *LIKE* it!!! by phallen · · Score: 2, Funny

    I know that I'm about to commit some kind of /. heresy by saying this, but I LOVE MY @ HOME SERVICE! I've had it in two apartments, got super-fast installation (in the case of the 2nd apt, they showed up on the day I moved in... I had @home server before I had phone service). I also have a static IP, for which I do not pay extra, but I hear that they are moving away from that.

    But, I will say that I only use it for the fat-pipe aspect. I don't use their email and don't use their web-hosting service (host my own, baby... and they haven't filtered web server traffic/port 80 as some people say they have.)

    Please, oh please, don't make Pac Bell the only fat-pipe provider in CA/SF Bay Area. If it takes months to get installed and people calling for customer service are on hold for hours, how bad will it be if Covad and @home crap out?

    "Hello, Pac Bell DSL? Yes, I'll hold... yes, I am bent over... yes, the broom stick handle does have splinters...yes, I will call you 'Daddy'..."

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  6. Herman Miller Chair Count by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    All you had to do was look at the Aereon Chair population to see this one coming. Ought to be a fun auction.

  7. Re:Blame it on Pets.com and their shareholders by garett_spencley · · Score: 2, Funny
    <more_sarcasm>Now that e-tailers have been brought back to reality and Napster is dead for all practical purposes, there's still no reason for broadband. No need for the convenience and power of having all the world's information at your fingertips. No reason why an AOL dialup account can't satisfy all your surfing needs.</more_sarcasm>


    Like d00d! U can't be serious! What about the pr0n ?!? We NEED broadband for the pr0n !!!! Oh PLEEZE don't take away my pr0n !!!


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  8. Re:Blame it on Pets.com and their shareholders by baptiste · · Score: 5, Funny
    You're posting on Slashdot so I assume you have some common sense.

    ROFLMAO! They need to mod your post to +5 Funny! By far the funniest post I've read today :)

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