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The Greatest Defunct Websites and Dotcom Disasters

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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    -Daver