MetaFilter posts tagged with dotcom and internet

The man who owns the Internet

MetaMonkey — Tue, 22 May 2007 14:14:16 -0800

Meet Kevin Ham, the man who owns the Internet

<blink>argghh!</blink>

UKnowForKids — Wed, 19 Nov 2003 06:33:15 -0800

Client: "People don't know what links are on the web yet, you have to make it blink and say 'CLICK HERE!' " Web designer horror stories from the last days of the dotcom boom. (via the Spinnoff forums)

WolfDaddy — Thu, 12 Sep 2002 11:17:08 -0800

Remembering the crazy dot-com boom. In November of 1998, a small California Internet provider named AvTel Communications announced they were providing local ADSL service to the community via a typical (and innocent, at least so it was thought) corporate press release. Business wires ~~spin~~ completely mis-interpret the release, CNBC talks about it on air, then clueless investors hoping to get rich quick start throwing money at the stock causing the stock price to rise an amazing 1284% in one day before trading is suspended. After several class-action suits, and a company re-name, the company managed to survive the hoopla, but only barely. Now they're being de-listed like yesterday's trash. Did something like this ever happen to a company for whom you worked? Let's share! (Yeah, I worked there then.)

tomato — Wed, 25 Jul 2001 08:41:39 -0800

Snapshots of san francisco: one man's view of the san francisco dot-com fiz-out. (more people should have websites, i can't get enough.) -- flash needed

TNLNYC — Thu, 05 Jul 2001 08:18:44 -0800

Is the downturn over? Looks like the dotcom downturn is levelling. Have most of the bad ideas seem to have shaken out of the market?

shackbar — Sun, 29 Apr 2001 19:35:07 -0800

Buffett calls Internet investing "a big trap"
If only many investors would have listened to Mr. Buffett a few years ago. Today, in Omaha, Buffett said, "But I think the idea that you could take any business idea and turn it into wealth on the Internet is just wrong." Common sense strikes again.

shauna — Tue, 17 Apr 2001 17:51:15 -0800

7 Lessons Learned From The Dot-com Fallout -- "Some of these are so obvious it's almost too embarrassing to list them." Indeed.

fpatrick — Tue, 10 Apr 2001 08:18:28 -0800

Blogs of Our Lives. There I was, enjoying a Burger King breakfast, reading the local Gannett paper, when I turn to their Tuesday technology section and find . . .

Steven Den Beste — Mon, 12 Feb 2001 12:05:22 -0800

Children, if you can't play nice, go to your rooms. Microsoft and Sun are now throwing rotten eggs at each other. I haven't seen the atmosphere between two large corporations get this ugly since the MCI/AT&T long distance wars. As Ars Technica puts it, "Man, their bad blood has gone from lengthy legal disputes to 'Oh Yeah? Well your mom is ugly!' type squabbling."

crushed — Fri, 02 Feb 2001 00:37:52 -0800

51,631 dot com layoffs as of Feb. 01, 2001. Is it that the web allows us to simultaneously view the usual failure of 99% of new businesses, a sign of the coming recession, or just a result of bad business plans and get rich quick schemes? Or was it simply too good to last? Whatever the reason, it's depressing.

JParker — Wed, 24 Jan 2001 21:31:39 -0800

"Accept our valuation or let Sand Hill put you into Chapter 11." This article from Red Herring on bridge financing for cash-strapped dotcoms makes the dire nature of the situation pretty explicit.

webchick — Fri, 15 Dec 2000 16:57:17 -0800

Are the VC's to blame? Or did dot coms play a part in their own demise? Every good drama has a villain (or Villain Capitalist, as the evidence suggests), and when good people are getting caught in the crossfire it's highly tempting to typecast the role.

baylink — Fri, 10 Nov 2000 08:21:27 -0800

Wow! Non-election related news. Courtesy of Linux Weekly News (which came out this morning), a picture of the new ".com" version of Monopoly. Did they get the companies in the order of priority you would have expected?

ratbastard — Mon, 24 Jul 2000 10:51:05 -0800

So let me get this straight: I buy something from an online merchant, and your company tracks the shipment for me. Does the web need a service like this, or is this another candidate for fuckedcompany.com?

alan — Thu, 25 May 2000 05:51:06 -0800

Deepleap.org is up. No one mentioned this yet, so I figured i would. Everyone go whine about the reload button not working.