Cyber-Soap Returns From The Dead

An anonymous reader submits "Back in 1995, an experimental "cyber-soap" had a wildly successful launch. With over a million page hits a day (an almost unheard-of amount of traffic at the time), The Spot was named "Cool Site of the Year" in 1995, and by all appearances was a huge success. As was the case for many projects of the time, though, by 1997 The Spot was gone, another victim of the dot-com bust. However, unlike other dot-com projects, The Spot has been given new life, un der new ownership, and was relaunched in March. Can the Spot, a unique blend of soap opera, blog, and reality show, survive this time around, or is it doomed to end up back in the graveyard of failed websites in which it was first buried seven years ago?"

Comments

dot-com bust in 1997?

[diesel66]

In 1997 we were still flying high (I was anyway). Easy to find jobs that paid scads of money.

I thought the bust was more like 2000-2002. I was laid off in from my comfy biotech position in mid 2001, when the only aspect of the company that had any remote potential was eaten by a bigger fish. Something like 85% of the employees laid off.

Does this anonymous poster have a short-term memory?

Re:Accurate?

[jsvesnik]

If you trust the Wayback Machine, The Spot was up until at least 1999.