Tag Archives: dotcom

It died

“Keeping track of hosted services as they lay dying.”
See also: Fucked Company, Disobey’s “Ghost Sites,” 427(?) “screenshots of farewell web pages of failed dot-coms and other dead web sites,” archive.org’s 1 Aug ’01 dupe of projectme’s “dotcom screenshot graveyard,” and the
Business Plan Archive (4,064 entries).

From the ontological-hysterical archives

WiReD 4.05 (May ’96), “Seek and Ye Shall Find (Maybe),” on Yahoo[!]:
Starting with the ad hoc categories she inherited from Yang and Filo, Srinivasan began slowly and deliberately steering Yahoo!’s ontology toward completeness. Mainly, it’s been a matter of adding new categories and reorganizing hierarchies as the Web evolves from containing only specialized, technical information [...]