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Old-School Silicon Valley Company Logos ON T-SHIRTS

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Not as old school and most of the startups are still alive:

http://www.startupschwag.com/

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I tried to track down who owned webvan's art through a screen printer that worked with them to no avail. Also tried to find out who has kozmo.com's art. Didn't get anywhere there either.

Not all Silicon Valley companies...

Commodore - Westchester, PA

Compuserve - Columbus, OH

Infocom - Cambridge, MA

DEC - Maynard, MA

Microsoft - Seattle, WA

Tandy - Fort Worth, TX

No SUN? Their logo would probably be the best seller.

Sun didn't fail; it was acquired and the right to the logo are Oracle's.

Microsoft didn't fail either. Who said anything about "Failed company logos on t-shirts"...?

The site itself:

"A history of silicon valley failure written in t-shirts"

Surely someone still owns the trademarks to many of these? Get 'em while they last.

FWIW the author claims this in the FAQ:

This is cool and all, but you aren’t the owner of any of these logos. Aren’t you going to be in deep trouble?

Trademarks need to be renewed fairly often. Even old logos from companies still in business get abandoned and die. Everything on this site is legally kosher as far as public records are concerned.

These look great, though I'm not sure I can justify $25 each on tshirts..

Also, I think this is the first time I've seen a .biz that wasn't spam-related (or is it?!?!)

Need to come with instructions for washing so as to achieve that worn with age look to go along with holes in the blue jeans...

they have the "distressed" style for that

I was hoping to see webvan in the mix. Guess their logo belongs to amazon?

hrm, site and shirts have been pulled down...

exciting stuff

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