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.'"

Comments

Re:is slashdot bi curious?

[E.J.Thribb]

So.

Farewell then, Heath Ledger.
Though we in the developed world only knew you since 'Bareback Mounting'
it seems you were
already
quite
big
down under.

I mean that
you are or were
Australian.

But you could take that
another way and it's
also true.
Indeed you did take it the other way.

Topically, your name was an anagram
of 'Death Helger'
except Helger is not a word
unless you are Swedish
and
a girl.
Which in a way
you were
beacause you liked to do it with boys.
not that
there's anything wrong with that.

Re:Marketing Genius

[Hognoxious]

How could a VC firm not be intelligent enough to realize that mail-order perishables isn't going to work out well

Are you telling me VC doesn't stand for Vacuous Cunt?