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The Greatest Defunct Websites and Dotcom Disasters

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the i-remember-everything dept.

NotableCathy writes "CNet has an interesting retrospective write-up documenting the most notable dotcom disasters and now-defunct Websites that were massive in their day, detailing what happened to them and what they led to. Nupedia didn't escape a slating (remember Larry Sanger's memoir?), or indeed Beenz, whose founder and CEO once said 'would become the universal currency, supplanting all others,' according to The Register seven years ago."

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  1. Re:Pets.com by Daver297 · · Score: 5, Informative

    that is the same sock puppet

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  2. AllTheWeb.com by mlwmohawk · · Score: 4, Informative

    bit for bit the best and most relevant search of the time. We went head to head with Google and we *HAD* better results with fewer duplicates.

    FAST could have been Google, it was better, but the upper management decided there was no real money to be made in web search.

    Alas, no matter how smart the engineers, or how good the technology, stupid management can screw up a free lunch. Unfortunately, win or lose, they *ALWAYS* get the pay off.

  3. Re:Please .... by DrMaurer · · Score: 4, Informative

    Firefox Repagination Add-On works pretty well.

    https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/2099

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    Dan
  4. Re:Pets.com by IorDMUX · · Score: 4, Informative

    Never mind, I found it!

    It was the 2001 eTrade SuperBowl commercial.

    ...hmm. Maybe I didn't remember it so well, after all.

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