Lycos Sells Out To Those Dastardly Spaniards; W.R. Hearst Rises From Grave To Stop Takeover.
May 16, 2000 4:49 PM   Subscribe

Lycos Sells Out To Those Dastardly Spaniards; W.R. Hearst Rises From Grave To Stop Takeover. Spanish ISP Terra Networks SA is now the proud owner of Suck, Hotwired, and Jeff Veen. Oh yeah, and a fairly useless portal. Now we just have to wait for the Sucksters to publicly deride their new owners...start your stopwatches.
posted by solistrato (8 comments total) 1 user marked this as a favorite
 
¡Víva el lycos!

(for full effect, pronounce Lycos as "lee-KOZ" instead of "LYE-koz")

Jeff Veen should now be known as "The Bumblebee Guy" and be heard saying things around the office such as "¡La Interface no es bueño!"
posted by mathowie at 5:34 PM on May 16, 2000


¿bueño?
posted by ericost at 6:20 PM on May 16, 2000


Yes! The key weapon of the Spanish ISPosition is surpise. Surprise and muchos pesetas.

Oh -- the TWO key weapons of the Spanish ISPosition are . . .

posted by fpatrick at 8:02 PM on May 16, 2000


¡Coño!
¿Will they bring back to life "el chango de la red""
posted by tremendo at 8:11 PM on May 16, 2000


you guys are whacked... hehehe
posted by Jeremy at 9:51 PM on May 16, 2000


What I heard is, due to a little error in translation, Terra actually paid 12 billion to buy Leykis.
posted by wendell at 10:19 PM on May 16, 2000


"¡La Interface no es bueno!"

posted by veen at 11:05 PM on May 16, 2000


No, no, they bought it for 12.5 billion Spanish pesetas, or around US$70 million ... whoops ...
posted by dhartung at 11:20 PM on May 16, 2000


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