Subj : Re: RIP Niklaus Wirth
To   : Blue White
From : poindexter FORTRAN
Date : Mon Jan 15 2024 09:22:00

-=> Blue White wrote to Arelor <=-

 BW> That business model is at least part of what lead to the dot.com crash
 BW> in the late 1990s.

 Those were heady times. I loved reading fuckedcompany.com and seeing
 companies with horrendously non-viable business ideas, like flake.com,
 a social network for people who like breakfast cereal.

 A company had their comeout party in San Francisco and closed
 operations the next day.

 I worked for a company that offered free MP3 downloads of indie music -
 they'd negotiated rights with indie labels like SubPop. I recall being
 in meetings with Yahoo to negotiate a deal, and no one was sure who
 should be paying whom - were we paying them for exposure, or were they
 paying us for content?

 Strange times, indeed.



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