The Dot Com Super Bowl

An anonymous reader writes "Remember Epidemic.com and Lifeminders.com? Me neither. But Forbes has a funny story looking back on these dot-bombs and a bunch of other internet startups which advertised during the 2000 Super Bowl. They call the game The Bubble Bowl since over a dozen internet companies blew $40 million on ads, and then most of them went out of business. It's cool to see the ads (I miss the pets.com sock puppet!) and remember some of these crackheaded business ideas."

Comments

Fuck I work for Kforce.

[F34nor]

and my job is going NOWHERE.

Re:dizzy refresh rate

[Lisandro]

I have this weird, irrational feeling that the "slower" button might slow the slides down. But that's just me :)

slide show

[same_old_story]

is the slideshow refresh speed suppoused to remind us how quickly these companies disappeared?
"oh, pets.com and"
(burst)
"oh, computers.com and"
(burst)

Re:sock puppet lives on

[The I Shing]

And when Triumph the Insult Comic Dog was interviewing the members of Bon Jovi, he commented on the fact that they were using his image on some of the passes. "I'll sue your asses!" he shouts at them, "I'm not kidding! Ask the sock puppet!" and then the scene cuts to him having his way with the sock puppet while huffing, "Say my name! What's my name?! Say it! Say my name!" Ah, late night TV.

The most ridiculous idea

[Anonymous Coward]

I forget who the company was, but they promised home delivery of pizza. You would use your phone or web browser and they would deliver a pizza to your home. It sounded so ridiculous at the time, I didn?t believe anyone would be foolish enough to invest in such a scheme. I wonder how much shareholders lost.

Day trading

[adam31]

E*trade's harsh reality:
The day traders went broke and had to get real jobs

More like had to start doing their real jobs at their real jobs... until those went bust. And then they had to get real jobs.

the bubble bowl?

[jxyama]

totally off topic, but if 2000 super bowl can be dubbed the "bubble" bowl, then 2004 would naturally be remembered as...

the breast bowl!! (NSFW)

Re:the bubble bowl?

[rjelks]

How the fark are we supposed to know what NSFW means?

Re:let's not single out the people with ideas...

[twiddlingbits]

Now I get it... the VC's were the ones on Crack! We were just taking advantage of them in thier diminished state. Catbert would be proud! :)

Ultimate Marketing Technique

[Greyfox]

All that marketing didn't bring them much name recognition at all. If you want to remain the talk of the town for YEARS after your commercial, just fund a Janet Jackson nipple slip. Instead of the EDS herding cats commercial, they could have just stuck an big EDS sticker over Janet's errant nipple and they'd have been the talk of the town for YEARS! Yes, I forsee a time when nipple real estate is the most coveted... what? It already is? Damn, and I was going to patent the idea...

The Sock Puppet offended me!

[Saeger]

Personally, I thought that the Pets.com Sock Puppet was very offensive; it was obviously possessed by evil demon-seed and scared my innocent children half to death! All good christians know that socks are used for dirty masturbatory purposes and can cum to life!

Anyway, I am glad that this upcoming G-Rated SuperBowl wouldn't allow such a dirty puppet on-air! They even renamed the "Best Damn Sports Show Period" to the "The Best DARN Sports Show Period". God bless their hearts.

Re:the bubble bowl? - WWJD? JWTYT STFU

[Anonymous Coward]

>Furthermore, please avoid the use of acronyms

WWJD? JWTYTSTFU

Re:Futurama referenced

[ConceptJunkie]

Don't bust on the poor Javascript guy, he was a CEO worth $100 million 5 years ago.