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The Curious Histories of Generic Domain Names
cheezitmike writes "ITworld.com uses the Wayback Machine to document the histories of five generic domain names: music.com, eat.com, car.com, meat.com, and milk.com. 'In this brave new Web 2.0 world, it's almost a badge of honor to have a Web site name that only hints at what the user will find there (see Flickr) or is so opaque as to offer no clue at all as to what the Web site is about (see del.icio.us). It's easy to forget the first Internet gold rush of the mid-to-late '90s, when dot-com domain names based on ordinary (and, investors hoped, marketable) nouns and verbs were snapped up by hopeful companies from the humble geeks who had purchased them (often ironically) in the early '90s.'"
I'm still waiting for someone to make me an offer on my domain: thissitewillmakemerich.com
This guy's the limit!
The same people who thought that people would be exclusively buying their milk and meat (and admittedly other foodstuffs) on-line by now, some of them were VC's and dumped a huge amount of cash on this IIRC..
purple.com always delivered what it promises.
Now you kids get off my lawn!
Domain names, indeed. *shakes head in disgust*
My blog
"Hello, internet? I'd like some meat, please."
"Just send it right over. Thanks, bye"
XKCD:Xeric Knowledge Comically Dispen
http://www.anus.com/
Never a greater disappointment in a web site's contents in my WHOLE LIFE.
...it's almost a badge of honor to have a Web site name that only hints at what the user will find there...
Like slashdot?
I love the FAQ milk.com! It's so appropriately craptastastic, I almost feel nostalgic...
Why? You're no different from most slashdotters.
Good, inexpensive web hosting
Call me paranoid, but there's no way on earth any sane person would just plug in meat.com expecting (hoping?) to find steaks on an internet full of porn (which it was even back then). I'm just going to type in gloryhole.com and see if it's a site on glass blowing... AH GOD MY EYES!!
"Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much." - Oscar Wilde
Opera is the singular of opus, "work". Easy enough to figure out why the browser uses that name.
Is that meant to be ironic? Web browsers are what people use to *not* work.
Whoever got apple.com must have been sitting on a goldmine.
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+2 Troll is Slashdot's way of saying groupthink is confused
"Milk was a BAD choice"
Oh, come on now. Non-tech people didn't have the same "dirty" thoughts as us geeks.
I have 85 year old grandparents that have been married for over 50 years! Yeah, longer than most of us geeks were just a dirty thought in their daddy's head (no pun intended).
Older people just don't put 2 and 2 together and come up with 4 when it comes to the inter-tubes. They are after all, a series of pipes.
Now, as far as old school goes, I remember watching a pic download over a dog-old modem of a nude chick. Damn, talk about fun. I remember seeing the boobs start to show and then slowly the belly and then... damn, ouch mom, what was that slap for?
General, you are listening to a machine! Do the world a favor and don't act like one.
The hosting costs crucified him
Monstar L
That must have driven their marketing people batshit.
No, the browser that doesn't work is called "Internet Explorer".
Oh wait, I see what you mean now.
In Soviet Russia, kremvax bang paths you!
Welcome to the Panopticon. Used to be a prison, now it's your home.
I don't think you guys are using your imagination. "milk.com" does not necessarily need to sell milk to be a marketing goldmine.
You're almost there...
Bingo! With that and "meat.com" and you can almost print money...
One man's -1 Flamebait is another man's +5 Funny.
Well as a former employee of Kozmo.com when they first opened in Seattle, I can say with a bit of authority that VCs in the late 90s didn't realize a hell of a lot. "Deliver movies ordered online in an hour? With no delivery charge? Something, something. Profit!"
Well, thanks to the Internet, I'm now bored with sex.