Dot-com tombstones
Webloggers Stan and Cathy have collected together a lovely bit of web history -- screenshots of the pages that various dot-coms put up saying "goodbye" when they shut down. There are dozens of them, and it's such a trip looking at how, precisely, the PR weasels at each firm decided to explain what had happened.
There's a lovely shot of Inside.com reporting on its own demise, and TheGlobe.com boasting about how it "confirmed the Internet's power to connect people worlds apart" (and produce a company with a stock valuation of 12 cents). There's the lovely irony of a company called Jobs.com going under. And then there's a really weird one for me, considering that my girlfriend's name is Emily: A "health and wellness" site that shut down, called iEmily.com.
Posted by Clive Thompson at June 16, 2003 01:56 PM
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