I worked for Tripod.com back in the day, which eventually sold to Lycos for about $60M, just a few months before Yahoo bought Geocities for $3.6B.
Needless to say, maybe we should have held out a bit longer. The late 90's were a strange time indeed.
Needless to say, maybe we should have held out a bit longer. The late 90's were a strange time indeed.
1. It was auto-deleted after a period of inactivity,
2. The Wayback Machine doesn’t know about it, and
3. My local copy was deleted by Microsoft thanks to a bug in Windows. (I was moving a folder across my home network from my old Windows 98SE computer to an XP box, and when the move operation encountered a folder with an accented character in its name, the entire operation failed — and deleted all of the data that was to be moved.)
Once is happenstance, twice is a coincidence, three times is an act of war. :O!