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."

Thank God

[name*censored*]

Thank God we live in the enlightened days of Web 2.0, in a bubble that will never burst!

beopen

[gmack]

Beopen.com .. Hired a full staff of reporters with the dream of competing with slashdot.

When it ran out of money a guy I know came back with T-Shirts. Not the cheap ones you get at trade shows but solid fruit of the loom stuff that lasted me 7 years of constant use (I throw shirts out when they get their first hole) as it turns out that was longer than the company lasted in the first place.

One Good Thing

[FurtiveGlancer]

The chairs were sweet!

Re:Please ....

[conureman]

One look & I decided to NRTFA and save time by reading /.comments.

Re:Pets.com

[oahazmatt]

Yeah, I just found the info on wikipedia. Slashdot would not let me reply to my own post for whatever reason. Apparently, I do not deserve a second chance. :)

Re:Thank God

[Tetsujin]

Yes, there will be no more dot-com distasters for us!

Distasters!

[Ai Olor-Wile]

Where does one submit resumes for becoming a Dot-com distaster? I find dot-coms to be extremely distasteful and I would like to share my experiences on the matter.

All of those collapse and goatse.cx still lives on

[multi-flavor-geek]

How, for the love of God, how....

Re:All of those collapse and goatse.cx still lives

[multi-flavor-geek]

I still wake up in a cold sweat sometimes screaming "I think I can see his kidneys, my eyes, my eyes!"

Re:Thank God

[thatskinnyguy]

Yes. But the only thing that really changed is that the web is now funded with venture capital AND ads.

Re:What about Wireplay?

[oahazmatt]

No-one ever mentions Wireplay.

I'm still waiting for a mention of Chips & Dips. Whatever happened to that place?

Re:I miss Dejanews

[Undead NDR]

I pine for the days when Usenet contained useful technical information

I slrn for those days.

i'm confused

[circletimessquare]

so the company went belly up, but no one lost the shirts off their backs

somewhere, a cliche has just died...

Re:I miss Dejanews

[halcyon1234]

I pine for the days when I used a mail reader called pine...

Re:I don't get it

[Anonymous Coward]

If you are jaded to seeing a guy with both hands buried with all 10 fingers deep in his ass, cranking it open directly in front of the camera like he was wrestling with an alligator's mouth, then you, my friend, really need to take a break from internet porn. Maybe stick to scat and dog fuckers before moving back on to Japanese enima sex and two girls with one cup.

Could it be, that maybe YOU are the goaste man and are miffed at the negative response you've gotten from your skillfull anal theatrics?

Re:One Good Thing

[Fear the Clam]

The chairs were sweet!

No they weren't. Ever try to muffle a fart in an Aeron chair?

Re:Thank God

[somersault]

Hopefully it will soon go the way of the sock puppet.

I sell sock puppets online, you insensitive clod! :(