Death Anniversaries, 2000-2004

every grave in this cemetery, by year of death. this page covers 2000 to 2004.

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~ 2004 ~

2004 Microsoft Train Simulator — microsoft train simulator was a june 2001 sim from kuju entertainment in godalming, published by microsoft games studio. six routes across austria and
2004 Photo CD — photo cd was kodak's 1992 attempt to put your photographs onto a cd-rom. you dropped off a roll of 35mm film at a participating lab, paid roughly thre
2004 Millicent — micropayments for the web, designed at digital equipment in the mid nineties by people who understood that credit card fees would never let you charge
2004 Castlewood Orb — ex-syquest engineers founded castlewood in 1996 and shipped the orb in 1999 with a 2.2 gigabyte removable hard disk cartridge. a 5.7 gigabyte version
2004 The Bitmap Brothers — the wapping-based amiga and atari st studio three young british programmers founded in 1987. ran best-selling 16-bit titles through the early 1990s wi
2004 Odigo Messenger — a 1999 israeli messenger that bridged icq and yahoo into one client. its 'people-search' would put you in a chat with strangers who happened to be on
2004 Ananova — ananova was a computer-generated newsreader with green hair, launched in 2000 by the uk press association and sold to orange for ninety-five million p
2004 Comet Cursor — comet cursor was a free download from the late 90s that let a website change your mouse pointer into its own little branded shape. for a few years it
2004 VRML — the 3D web that everyone described in 1996 and almost nobody could load. vrml let you write worlds you walked through in a browser, spinning logos and
2004 Media Whores Online — media whores online was an anonymous american political site that spent four years accusing named reporters of working for the other team. nobody ever
2004 TapCIS — tapcis existed because compuserve charged by the hour. you wrote your mail and your forum replies offline in a dos program and pressed one key. it dia
2004 The Hive — a texan named hobart huson, writing as strike, opened a forum in 1997 for people who wanted to argue about the practical chemistry of drugs. it ran fo
Jan 2004 Visual J++ — microsoft announced in december 1995 that it was licensing java from sun and shipped its own compiler ten months later. then it added windows-only ext
2004 Planet Hot Wheels — planet hot wheels was mattel's online racing world, launched in 2001 for windows and mac. you raced for credits and spent them on cars and parts, and
2004 Immunix — portland, oregon, 1998: a research group spins out of a graduate project to sell a linux you cannot easily break into. immunix was red hat with the co
2004 Camera Image File Format — february 1997: canon publishes a raw file specification and hands its upkeep to a body called the ciff forum. the format became .crw, the container ea
2004 ANT Fresco — a cambridge company that had been making ethernet cards for the acorn archimedes wrote the first real web browser for risc os, then spent ten years se
5 Jan 2004 AmphetaDesk — one person wrote a news reader in perl because every existing one annoyed him and none of them were usable by his mother. it installed as a tiny serve
7 Jan 2004 RealOne Player — realone player was the brand realnetworks used between december 2001 and january 2004 for its merged player-jukebox application. it carried the goldpa
14 Jan 2004 goatse.cx — the shock url that ran for five years on christmas island's .cx cctld. one image, one filename, hundreds of millions of links sent under false labels.
15 Jan 2004 Speak Freely — speak freely was free software for talking over the internet, written by john walker, the autodesk co-founder, and posted to usenet in 1991. it carrie
16 Jan 2004 Legend Entertainment — legend entertainment was started in 1989 by two people who had just watched infocom close, and its whole argument was that the text adventure did not
23 Jan 2004 BarrysWorld — a few people running clan servers in britain turned them into a public service in 1998 and gave away free game hosting to anybody with a modem. to pay
Feb 2004 BonziBuddy — bonzi was a purple cartoon gorilla that lived on your windows desktop, told you the time, sang dumb little songs, and quietly collected information fr
Feb 2004 Easy CD Creator — adaptec bought corel's cd creator in june 1996 and merged it with easy-cd pro, the software it had picked up from incat systems the year before, and t
12 Feb 2004 Origin Systems — origin systems was founded on march 4 1983 by richard garriott (lord british) with his brother robert and father owen. across two decades it shipped t
Feb 2004 VDMSound — vlad romascanu started it in montreal in 1998 because he wanted to capture the midi music out of dos games as a file, and it grew into the thing that
Feb 2004 Whitehouse.com — the most famous mistype on the late-1990s american web. dan parisi bought the domain in 1997, briefly ran it as a political-satire idea, then turned i
Mar 2004 Netscape Netcenter — netscape netcenter was the portal netscape built on top of its own browser's default homepage in 1997. at peak in 1998 it had around twenty million mo
Mar 2004 Nutuge.com — nutuge.com was a mongolian-language site about the history and present of the mongols, run from inner mongolia by govruud huuchinhuu. nutag is the mon
Mar 2004 Trellix — dan bricklin wrote visicalc in 1979 and then spent the second half of the nineties on trellix, a program that built web sites out of a map of linked p
Mar 2004 Tymnet — tymnet was the road underneath a lot of things people remember better than the road. it started inside tymshare in 1971 as a way to get customers onto
2 Mar 2004 Beonex Communicator — ben bucksch wanted a mozilla suite you could hand to someone who actually needed privacy, with kerberos and openpgp wired in rather than bolted on aft
10 Mar 2004 ShareReactor — sharereactor held no files. it held ed2k links, which are text, and the reason people used it was that somebody had checked them first. the edonkey ne
Mar 2004 HyperCard — hypercard was apple's pre-web hypermedia stack. you laid out cards full of buttons and pictures, and you wrote little hypertalk scripts to link them t
Apr 2004 Impressions Games — david lester founded impressions in britain in 1989 and sold it to sierra in 1995. from an office in cambridge, massachusetts it made caesar iii and p
29 Apr 2004 Oldsmobile — thirty five million cars over one hundred and six years, from a curved-dash runabout built on a moving assembly line a decade before ford used one, to
30 Apr 2004 Red Hat Linux — for most of a decade red hat linux was what people meant when they said linux. it came in a cardboard box with printed manuals and a support number, a
May 2004 Xelibri — in january 2003 siemens announced it would sell mobile phones the way a clothing label sells clothes, in seasonal collections that were supposed to go
May 2004 Papyrus Design Group — seventeen years of one idea, held without blinking: that a racing game should model the car rather than the feeling of the car. david kaemmer and omar
May 2004 Microsoft Broadband Networking — in july 2002 microsoft said out loud that home networking was too hard to use, and then did the microsoft thing about it: built the hardware itself. b
5 May 2004 NGSCB (Palladium) — microsoft unveiled palladium in june 2002 through a magazine article, then renamed it next-generation secure computing base in january 2003. the plan
28 May 2004 TechTV — the cable channel about being on a computer. ziff-davis launched it as zdtv in may 1998 and renamed it techtv in 2000. peaked at 43 million us househo
Jun 2004 TheSpark.com — thespark was four harvard students being funny on the web in 1999. it ran snarky personality quizzes and humor pieces, and almost as a side project it
Jun 2004 U-matic — u-matic was the first videocassette that worked as a product, three quarters of an inch of tape in a shell you dropped into a slot instead of threadin
Jun 2004 Microsoft bCentral — redmond paid 265 million dollars for linkexchange in november 1998 and needed somewhere to put it. bcentral opened in september 1999 as microsoft's sm
21 Jun 2004 Brightmail — two million email addresses existed for no purpose except to be spammed. brightmail ran them as a probe network, watched what landed in them, and push
24 Jun 2004 WEP — wep shipped inside the original 802.11 standard in 1997 and its name was the entire promise: not strong encryption, just as private as a cable. it ran
Jul 2004 Delphine Software International — delphine software was paid for by piano records. paul de senneville produced richard clayderman, and in 1988 he put the money from that into a paris g
1 Jul 2004 Smilebit — on 1 july 2004 sega pulled six studio subsidiaries back into itself in a single movement, and smilebit was one of them, four years old to the day. it
15 Jul 2004 Marimba (Castanet) — the silicon valley startup founded by kim polese and three java engineers from sun who left in february '96 to build push tech. castanet pushed softwa
31 Jul 2004 WON.net — won was the matchmaking spine behind half-life's first six years online. valve built steam in secret while still on sierra's publishing deal, then pat
Aug 2004 TeleGarden — ken goldberg and joseph santarromana pointed an industrial robot arm at a tray of soil in 1995 and handed the controls to anyone with a web browser. y
17 Aug 2004 Netscape Composer — netscape composer was a web page editor that arrived as a side effect of installing a browser. it came with communicator 4.0 in june 1997, out of the
30 Aug 2004 TerraVista — the portuguese state spun up a free hosting portal in 1997 so portuguese people could put a homepage on the new internet. it passed through jazztel, y
31 Aug 2004 Palm.net — in may 1999 palm shipped a handheld with an aerial you flipped up to reach the internet, two years before anyone here could do the equivalent with a p
31 Aug 2004 마이엠 (MyM) — one hundred megabytes of free email in february 2004, when hotmail was still handing out two. mym opened on the 9th after eighteen months of preparati
1 Sep 2004 Acclaim Entertainment — acclaim entertainment was a long island console publisher founded in 1987 by greg fischbach, robert holmes, and james scoroposki. it ran the home-port
9 Sep 2004 Gathering of Developers — a rented parking lot across the street from e3, with free barbecue and a stage on it, was most of the marketing budget. gathering of developers opened
22 Sep 2004 Earth & Beyond — earth and beyond was westwood's last shipped game. ea published it in september 2002 with three races and three professions in a deep-space sandbox ai
6 Oct 2004 Commerce One — commerce one was the loudest bubble-era b2b exchange story. founded in 1994 as distrivision, renamed in 1997, ipo'd in july 1999 and rose 190 percent
14 Oct 2004 Jasc Paint Shop Pro — jasc paint shop pro was the windows shareware photoshop alternative. robert voit started it as a gif2pcx file converter in august 1990 in minneapolis.
14 Oct 2004 Jasc Software — on 14 october 2004 corel bought a 120-person company in eden prairie, minnesota that was doing more than thirty million dollars a year selling softwar
20 Oct 2004 Bloomba — bloomba was a windows email client whose entire argument was that finding an old message should be instant. stata labs shipped it in october 2003, and
26 Oct 2004 ShadowCrew — around four thousand accounts on a forum where stolen card numbers were sold in batches and a designated reviewer tested a sample before the seller wa
Oct 2004 Argonaut Games — the london game studio jez san founded in february 1982 at age 16, named after his initials and the jason myth. peaked in 1993 when its custom super f
2 Nov 2004 Game Neverending — vancouver, 2002: a tiny company started building a massively multiplayer game with no winning condition, where you made objects by combining other obj
11 Nov 2004 Audion — audion was the panic mp3 player on mac os 9 and os x. apple sat down with panic to talk acquisition and the meeting fell through over a scheduling con
12 Nov 2004 Nullsoft — in march 2000 justin frankel published gnutella on his employer's website with a note reading see, aol can bring you good things. aol had it pulled th
22 Nov 2004 Yahoo! PayDirect — yahoo paydirect was yahoo's attempt at a person-to-person payment service during the paypal era. it launched in march 2000 with cibc national bank as
23 Nov 2004 Cdandco — the commercial court put cdandco into receivership on 18 april 2001 and handed the business to rue du commerce two months after that. before the fall
24 Nov 2004 Karelia Watson — watson was the $30 mac os x utility dan wood at karelia software shipped on november 27 2001. the pitch was internet content through a familiar mac-st
Dec 2004 Adobe Atmosphere — adobe atmosphere was a browser plug-in for navigating 3d worlds in internet explorer. the technology came from attitude software's 3d anarchy, acquire
1 Dec 2004 SoundEdit 16 — soundedit 16 was the macromedia mac audio editor for the shockwave-and-director generation. its lineage started with steve capps coding the original s
9 Dec 2004 Entoi — nhn built entoi as its third pillar next to naver and hangame and staffed it from five people up to a hundred. the idea was that you posted and other
14 Dec 2004 Finreactor — the finnish national bureau of investigation took the servers on 14 december 2004, acting on a complaint filed for microsoft and adobe among others. w
15 Dec 2004 CNNfn — cnnfn was cnn's nine-year attempt to compete with cnbc for the american financial-news cable audience between 1995 and 2004. the channel struggled to
16 Dec 2004 OS/2 e-Zine — 16 december 2004 is the date on the last issue, and nothing in it says goodbye. the editor apologizes for being busy, and then the issue runs a review
19 Dec 2004 SuprNova.org — suprnova was the front door to bittorrent for a year and a half. before isohunt, before mininova, before piratebay had its meme phase, suprnova was wh
2004 Adobe PageMaker — pagemaker is the reason desktop publishing exists as a phrase. it walked into 1985 next to the laserwriter and turned the mac into the layout machine
2004 HotJava — sun wrote a web browser in its own brand new language to prove the language was good for something, and for a short window it was the only browser on
31 Dec 2004 Usina do Som — sixteen million reais of grupo abril's money went into usina do som, which opened on 19 march 2000 and let anyone in brazil assemble a radio station o
2004 TC Works Spark — may 1999, and tc works had spent years selling plug-ins that ran inside other people's software before it tried shipping an application of its own. sp

~ 2003 ~

2003 Vizzavi — vizzavi was one of the most expensive startups in internet history and almost nobody remembers using it. in 2000 vodafone and vivendi poured a planned
2003 Sir-Tech — sir-tech was a family business in ogdensburg, new york that published a dungeon game for the apple ii in 1981 and accidentally set the template for th
2003 Xupiter — xupiter was the toolbar that taught a generation of windows users what a browser hijacker was. it arrived through an activex install on a page you did
2003 Arianna — italy got its own crawler in 1996, out of a university department in pisa and a portal called italia on line. for a few years arianna was where the it
2003 PIRCH — pirch was the other irc client. northwest computer services shipped it as shareware, and the last build, pirch98, arrived in 1998 with nothing after i
2003 XyWrite — dave erickson and john hild left atex and founded xyquest in june 1982, shipping xywrite that september as a personal computer version of the mainfram
Jan 2003 HomeRF — more than a hundred companies signed up in 1998 to a radio standard for the house, one that carried voice and data on the same link so a cordless phon
2003 ClarkNet — a cow barn on a farm in howard county, maryland held the machines for the first internet provider the baltimore area ever had. jamie clark was deaf an
2003 GirlGeeks — two filmmakers started girlgeeks in 1998 as a documentary about women in computing, and the original name carried a question mark. the site outlived b
2003 Lovemail — a cartoon heart with wings, and the word lovemail under it. the site opened in 1998 promising free postcards with poems written specially for it, beca
2003 Travel Companion Exchange — jens jurgen ran a matching service out of long island from 1982 and would not move it onto the internet, because he did not trust the web with his mem
Jan 2003 Liquid Audio — liquid audio tried to ship a secure-download music store in 1996, four years before napster proved nobody wanted to pay or wait. the platform sat at t
16 Jan 2003 Northern Light — the search engine that grouped your results into folders. it indexed the open web and a separate "special collection" of paid premium content (papers,
23 Jan 2003 PGPfone — on 23 january 2003 a network manager at mit opened a word processor, typed two sentences saying the software was no longer being distributed and proba
Jan 2003 Sputnik7 — the streaming music video site that wanted to be MTV on the web in 1999. curated channels for indie rock, electronic, hip-hop, anime. the bandwidth co
31 Jan 2003 Microsoft Entertainment Pack — the box where freecell and jezzball came from before they were free with windows. microsoft sold four entertainment packs from 1990 to 1992, then the
31 Jan 2003 SAPARi — 6 february 1997 is early for a graphical chat world with avatars you could dress, and sony shipped it preinstalled on vaio laptops for four years, whi
6 Feb 2003 Kakuto Chojin: Back Alley Brutal — seven seconds of quranic recitation, lifted off a german sample library cd from 1995, sat underneath the theme music of a character named asad. micros
7 Feb 2003 Atari Games — when warner cut atari in half in 1984 it sold the home division to jack tramiel and kept the arcade cabinets, and the part it kept was renamed atari g
17 Feb 2003 Pyra Labs — pyra labs was a four-person company that built blogger out of leftover code for a project-management tool nobody wanted. it ran out of money in 2001,
25 Feb 2003 divine, inc. — a man who had just sold his software company for three and a half billion dollars built an incubator in chicago and put thirty-eight people on the boa
9 Mar 2003 Digitiser — paul rose and tim moore wrote a daily video game magazine inside a television signal for ten years under the names mr biffo and mr hairs, and never on
19 Mar 2003 Inktomi — inktomi was a 1996 spinoff out of uc berkeley, founded by eric brewer and paul gauthier on the premise that you could parallelize a web index across c
31 Mar 2003 Westwood Studios — westwood was founded in 1985 in las vegas by brett sperry and louis castle, originally as westwood associates. dune ii in 1992 effectively defined the
31 Mar 2003 Fathom.com — twenty five million dollars of columbia university money went into fathom, and by some accounts closer to thirty. sixty five thousand people made an a
31 Mar 2003 Game Boy — gunpei yokoi's rule was to take old cheap technology and use it somewhere nobody had thought to put it. the game boy had a worse screen than the lynx
Apr 2003 Multimania — the GeoCities of france. free web hosting in exchange for a banner ad at the top of your page. millions of personal homepages, fan sites, and embarras
1 Apr 2003 All Your Base Are Belong To Us — the sentence was printed into a mega drive shooter in july 1991 by somebody at toaplan who did not speak much english, and it sat there for a decade b
1 Apr 2003 Enix — enix started in 1975 as a company that printed real estate classifieds and got into games in 1982 by running a programming contest. the people who won
Apr 2003 TWICS — in 1993 a nonprofit language school in tokyo leased a line from a small american company and became the first place in japan where an ordinary person
8 Apr 2003 Mac OS Runtime for Java — january 1997, and the macintosh had its own java virtual machine, written by apple rather than licensed from sun. it implemented jdk 1.0.2, shipped in
23 Apr 2003 Oingo — two caltech graduates built a search engine that matched meanings instead of words, using a princeton lexicon that had taken fifteen years to assemble
Apr 2003 TVGoHome — tvgohome was the satirical fake tv listings site charlie brooker ran from september 1999 to april 2003, formatted to mock the british radio times prin
30 Apr 2003 Billpoint — billpoint was ebay's own payment service, bought in 1999 and relaunched in 2000 as a joint venture with wells fargo, sitting on the buttons of the lar
30 Apr 2003 PlaceWare — in march 1997, when most people's connection to the internet was a modem making a noise, placeware shipped a product that put several hundred people i
May 2003 Gremlin Interactive — gremlin started above a computer shop in sheffield in 1984 and lasted nineteen years, which almost nobody in the british software business managed. it
6 May 2003 Linux Router Project — one point four four megabytes was the entire budget, and dave cinege got a working router into it in 1997. the linux router project turned a dead 486
7 May 2003 Bethlehem Steel — the towers of the golden gate bridge were fabricated from plate rolled by a company in the lehigh valley that also delivered 1,121 ships during the se
13 May 2003 iLoo — msn uk announced on 30 april 2003 that it was building a portable toilet with a wireless broadband connection and a screen in it, for the british summ
16 May 2003 Archos Jukebox — archos put a six gigabyte hard drive inside a plastic brick and shipped it on 9 december 2000, ten months before the ipod was announced. it mounted as
19 May 2003 Pressplay — pressplay was the major labels trying to build the legal music store they should have built four years earlier and refusing to make it good. downloads
19 May 2003 Cool Edit Pro — the shareware-then-commercial windows audio editor syntrillium shipped from 1995, with cool edit pro arriving for multitrack work and the brand peakin
20 May 2003 ZoneJeuX — ten point six million euros went into it and it never found a way to pay for itself. launched by a belgacom subsidiary in november 1999, zonejeux was
27 May 2003 Nando Times — in 1994 the associated press did not have a website and neither did reuters. a newspaper in raleigh, north carolina put a desk of editors on its own w
28 May 2003 The 3DO Company — the 3do company was trip hawkins's post-ea second act, set up in september 1991 around a licensed console-standard model for the 3do interactive multi
31 May 2003 WASTE — justin frankel posted waste on the nullsoft website on 28 may 2003 and aol took it down three days later, replacing the download with a notice telling
Jun 2003 Brunching Shuttlecocks — lore sjöberg and dave neilsen launched brunching shuttlecocks in june 1997 as one of the early text-and-image personal humor sites that pre-dated mode
Jun 2003 New Internet Computer — larry ellison spent the second half of the nineties insisting that the personal computer was too complicated and too expensive and that the network wo
Jun 2003 NetSlaves — netslaves went up in october 1998 after new york book agents told steve baldwin and bill lessard that their idea worked better as a magazine article.
Jun 2003 eBituaries — a hosting company switched the domain off in june 2003, and that was the end of ebituaries, which had spent three years selling people a web page for
3 Jun 2003 MNG — on 27 february 2003 a mozilla developer filed a bug noting that the mng decoder was about the size of every other image decoder in the browser put tog
25 Jun 2003 Data East — data east made arcade games for twenty seven years and is remembered for burgertime and karate champ, which undersells a catalog of about a hundred an
30 Jun 2003 MCI Mail — the first commercial american email service. launched in 1983 by mci to attach a mailbox to a long-distance phone bill. lived twenty years, killed by
30 Jun 2003 election.com — election.com ran the arizona democratic presidential primary in march 2000, which let registered democrats cast a real ballot from a browser and had i
30 Jun 2003 Dow Jones News/Retrieval — dow jones put the wall street journal on a wire in 1973 and charged by the minute to read it, which worked because the person reading was on the clock
Jul 2003 StarSight Telecast — somewhere in your city a pbs station was broadcasting the week's television schedule in the invisible lines above the picture, and if you owned the ri
1 Jul 2003 ACTV, Inc. — in july 1989 a delaware corporation was formed in new york to sell a thing television could not yet do, and it kept selling it for fourteen years with
3 Jul 2003 Casady & Greene — nineteen years of boxed macintosh software ended on 3 july 2003. the publisher that put crystal quest in front of every mac ii buyer and sold soundjam
8 Jul 2003 Roger Wilco — roger wilco was the freeware voice-chat client that put voice on a 56k modem in 1999 before any pc shooter shipped voice chat of its own. resounding t
15 Jul 2003 Transformation Story Archive — the transformation story archive was collecting amateur fiction about people turning into other things by may 1995, which makes it the oldest archive
16 Jul 2003 Rocket eBook — nuvomedia shipped the rocket ebook in late 1998, five years before the kindle, out of a two-person palo alto startup founded by martin eberhard and ma
Aug 2003 Connectix — a gray plastic sphere the size of a golf ball, plugged into the back of a mac, shipping in august 1994 for under a hundred dollars. that was the quick
Aug 2003 PsychoExGirlfriend.com — fifty voicemail messages, each between forty-five seconds and two minutes, uploaded in the spring of 2001 by a man calling himself mark. it became one
3 Aug 2003 Listen.com — listen.com was the music search engine that turned into rhapsody. rob reid founded the company in 1998 in san francisco. the rhapsody on-demand servic
11 Aug 2003 SpeechWorks — boston, 1994, two founders and a company called applied language technologies. it renamed itself speechworks and spent nine years selling the thing th
24 Aug 2003 HotDog — hotdog was an html editor first released june 1994 by a 22-year-old australian developer named steve outtrim. he founded sausage software in melbourne
27 Aug 2003 RealPC — a new chief executive at fwb software opened the books in august 2003 and found that the mac os x version of realpc, promised for that summer with 3d
29 Aug 2003 Motor City Online — motor city online was a subscription racing mmo from ea seattle, released on october 29 2001. it had started inside the need for speed series as need
Sep 2003 Blogger Pro — thirty-five dollars a year, and it is what kept the lights on at pyra labs when the crash had taken everything else. spellchecking and drafts sat behi
26 Sep 2003 Nupedia — nupedia launched in march 2000 in san diego under bomis, with jimmy wales as funder and larry sanger as editor-in-chief, running a seven-step peer-rev
30 Sep 2003 SegaNet — seganet was sega's bet that a console could be its own internet provider. for a year it worked. phantasy star online ran on low-latency dedicated serv
30 Sep 2003 NEC PC-9800 Series — nec shipped the pc-9801 in october 1982 and then spent a decade owning japanese computing, past sixty percent of the market by 1991. the reason was wr
1 Oct 2003 J-Sky — j-sky was the mobile internet service j-phone launched in december 1999, ten months after docomo's i-mode and into a market that already had two walle
1 Oct 2003 J-Phone — j-phone was the third carrier in japan and it won the one argument that mattered outside japan. in november 2000 it shipped a handset from sharp with
Oct 2003 MSN Companion — $199 on the shelf, $790 in mandatory dial-up before you got there. microsoft unveiled the msn companion at comdex in november 1999 and the first unit,
Oct 2003 Microsoft Photo Editor — photo editor was the small image program that opened when you double-clicked a picture embedded in a word or powerpoint file. it shipped with office 9
29 Oct 2003 Handspring — priced at twenty dollars on 20 june 2000, open at twenty seven the following morning, and worth 3.6 billion dollars by the closing bell. two years and
3 Nov 2003 Mucky Foot Productions — there is an illness in two point hospital called mucky feet. it is named for a guildford studio that opened in january 1997 with four people out of bu
6 Nov 2003 Compile — compile spent the eighties making shoot em ups for the msx and the pc engine, then in 1991 released puyo puyo, which became one of the largest puzzle
9 Nov 2003 c2it — the largest consumer bank in the world decided in 2000 that payments between two people were a bank's business and that paypal was a passing condition
15 Nov 2003 Adobe LiveMotion — adobe shipped livemotion in 2000 as the alternative to macromedia flash. it had an after-effects-style timeline and a vector engine that could export
19 Nov 2003 Digex — digex started in a maryland basement in 1991 as one of the east coast's first commercial internet providers, and ended up running the websites of mart
Dec 2003 Dotmusic — music week, the british record industry's trade paper, put a site online on 1 june 1995 and relaunched it in december 1998 for fans rather than for th
7 Dec 2003 Kazaa Lite — kazaa lite was kazaa with the spyware removed, built in april 2002 by people who never gave their names and never charged anything. it ran on the same
8 Dec 2003 Black Isle Studios — black isle studios was the small interplay division that made the original two fallout games and planescape torment, three of the most-cited western r
22 Dec 2003 Microsoft Smart Display — microsoft smart display, codenamed mira, was a battery-powered wireless touchscreen monitor that ran windows ce and acted as a remote thin client for
22 Dec 2003 Wink Communications — directv declined to renew, the carriage agreement ran out on 22 december 2003, and opentv deactivated about 10.4 million wink-enabled set-top boxes at
2003 Iomega Zip Disk — the zip disk was iomega's bet that the next floppy would also be a floppy, only fatter. it briefly worked. then cd-r media got cheap and the click-of-
2003 Microsoft 3D Movie Maker — 3d movie maker was a kids' animation studio microsoft shipped on a CD-ROM in 1995. it ran on windows 95, used the BRender 3d engine, let an eight-year
2003 Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia — grolier shipped the first cd-rom encyclopedia in 1985 under the new grolier electronic encyclopedia name, then rebranded the multimedia version in 199
2003 Imation SuperDisk LS-120 — imation launched the superdisk ls-120 in 1996, a 120 megabyte diskette format from 3m's storage spinoff with panasonic manufacturing the drive. it rea
Dec 2003 Sun Cobalt Qube — the cobalt qube was a small blue cube that ran red hat linux as a turnkey web server. you plugged it in, opened a browser to an ip on your lan, ran th
2003 Cybiko — cybiko was a teen-targeted handheld that paired a rubber qwerty keyboard with a 100-meter peer-to-peer radio so kids in the same school hallway could
2003 WonderSwan — wonderswan was the last handheld gunpei yokoi worked on before he died in a 1997 car accident. bandai shipped it posthumously in march 1999 at ¥4,800,
2003 New World Computing — new world computing was the agoura hills studio jon van caneghem set up in 1984. it shipped might and magic 1 in 1986 and heroes of might and magic 1
31 Dec 2003 JenniCam — jennicam was a 24/7 webcam jennifer ringley pointed at her dickinson college dorm room on 14 april 1996. the image refreshed every three minutes and r
2003 Silmarils — silmarils was two brothers who had been writing games since 1983 on trs-80s and orics, and who turned it into a company in october 1987 in a town east
2003 Modern Humorist — modern humorist was a comedy web magazine run out of dumbo in brooklyn by john aboud and michael colton, two harvard lampoon alumni who turned a parod
2003 Sony Mavica — every digital camera of the late 1990s had the same unsolved problem, which was getting the picture out of it. sony's answer was to put a 3.5 inch flo
2003 Berkeley Softworks — brian dougherty walked out of the imagic collapse with roughly a hundred thousand dollars to his name and started again two blocks from his old campus

~ 2002 ~

2002 Delphi — the boston online service that started in 1981 as a hypertext encyclopedia and grew into a peer of compuserve. wes kussmaul ran it. news corp bought i
2002 Blaxxun Contact — a 3d browser plugin out of munich that you installed once to walk around cybertown or a bmw configurator inside your netscape window. it tried to rend
2002 Iomega Jaz — iomega launched the jaz drive in december 1995 with a 1 gigabyte removable cartridge that read and wrote at hard drive speeds. it was the high end of
2002 Procomm Plus — the dos and windows terminal emulator datastorm technologies shipped through the late 80s and 90s. it ran bbs sessions over modems and automated login
2002 Conflict Catcher — the mac os classic extension manager casady and greene shipped from 1992 to handle the boot-time chaos of competing inits and control panels. jeff rob
Jan 2002 Netpliance i-Opener — the i-opener was a $99 kitchen-counter internet appliance from netpliance, a texas startup that shipped the device in november 1999 at a loss-leader p
2002 İxir — ixir was doğuş holding's consumer internet brand, an isp with a portal bolted to it, and for two years it bought more turkish television time than any
2002 Handspring Visor — the people who made the palmpilot walked out of palm and built a better palm. the visor was cheaper and it synced over usb while palm was still on a s
2002 a2b music — at&t labs invented the codec that digital music actually runs on, then built a store around it that locked every file to the machine it landed on. a2b
2002 Lokace — lokace went up in 1994 as the first search engine anyone built in france, out of a group of seven people whose next product was caramail. it crawled f
1 Jan 2002 Eurocheque — eurocheque was a paper cheque you could write in a foreign country and have a foreign shopkeeper actually accept, because a plastic guarantee card in
Jan 2002 Next Generation — next generation ran eighty-five issues from january 1995 to january 2002, published by imagine media in brisbane, california and sharing a house style
2002 Aureate / Radiate — steve gibson spent early 2000 disassembling a dll that had arrived on his machine inside a piece of shareware and stayed there after the shareware was
2002 Boardwatch — jack rickard published it out of lakewood, colorado, every month from 1987, and for a decade its pages were where the american bbs world kept its phon
2002 Yahoo Clubs — a club page in 1999 was a message board with a chat room attached to it, a photo album and a list of everyone who had joined, and yahoo would give you
2002 Fatbrain.com — a bookstore opened in sunnyvale in march 1983 selling nothing but computer books, down the road from where fry's would open two years later. it regist
2002 E-mu Systems — seven thousand nine hundred dollars was a lot to ask for a keyboard in 1981 and a bargain for a sampler, because the machine everybody compared it to
2002 DR-WebSpyder — caldera uk took michal polak's arachne, bolted novell's networking onto it, and shipped a dos web browser that could boot from one floppy on a 386 wit
8 Jan 2002 Cadê? — in september 1995 two electrical engineering students in são paulo built a search engine for the brazilian web. by 2001 it was the largest search site
12 Jan 2002 MightyWords — barnes & noble put twenty million dollars into mightywords in june 2000 and owned fifty-three percent of it by september. the company sold documents l
18 Jan 2002 Talk — a mayor refused them a pier in brooklyn because the first issue's cover was hillary clinton, who was about to run against him, so they rented liberty
22 Jan 2002 Microsoft UltimateTV — ultimatetv was microsoft's dvr-and-internet box for directv satellite, released march 2001 with sony and rca hardware partners. it had a dual satellit
24 Jan 2002 Beyond.com — beyond.com started life in 1994 as software.net, the first serious attempt to sell programs over the wire instead of in a box on a shelf. by 1999 it h
31 Jan 2002 Loki Entertainment — loki was a lawyer's idea: buy the linux rights to windows games and ship them in boxes. scott draeker started it in november 1998 in tustin, californi
Feb 2002 OpenNap — opennap was an open-source server implementation of the napster protocol, reverse-engineered in 1999 by a developer nicknamed drscholl with help from
7 Feb 2002 NextCard — nextcard was the first credit card you could apply for on a web page and be approved for while the page was still open. jeremy and molly lent started
8 Feb 2002 ArsDigita — thirty-eight million dollars arrived in 2000 and the founders were out of the management structure within months. arsdigita sold database-backed commu
13 Feb 2002 Microsoft Visual InterDev — visual interdev 1.0 shipped march 1997 inside the professional and enterprise editions of visual studio 97. it was microsoft's first integrated ide fo
28 Feb 2002 Dreamarena — three hundred thousand registrations across europe by september 2000, and every one of them reached the network by letting a console dial a phone numb
Mar 2002 Sonique — sonique was the other winamp. mediascience built it in bozeman montana, lycos bought the company for thirty-eight million dollars in 1999, and the fin
Mar 2002 Compton's Interactive Encyclopedia — the first multimedia cd-rom encyclopedia, shipped by compton's newmedia in 1989 under encyclopaedia britannica's parent ownership. ownership passed th
Mar 2002 INteRNeTTo — fifteen million forints is what the editorial staff offered idg hungary for the magazine they were already writing, in april 1999. idg said no, and ev
Mar 2002 GooglyMinotaur — a record label paid for a chatbot to sell an album and ended up operating one of the most used pieces of software radiohead ever had their name on. it
4 Mar 2002 Ansett Australia — reg ansett was licensed off the hamilton to melbourne road route in 1935, so he bought an aircraft and flew it instead, starting on 17 february 1936.
15 Mar 2002 HoTMetaL — the first html editor anybody sold for money, out of toronto in 1994, built on top of an sgml engine that had been written for a stricter kind of docu
27 Mar 2002 ChickClick — heidi swanson pitched a network of girl-run websites to imagine media in 1998 and got funded, which in that particular year was not a hard sell. chick
Mar 2002 Service Merchandise — service merchandise opened as a tennessee five-and-dime in 1934 and rebuilt itself in 1960 as a catalog-showroom chain where customers wrote item numb
31 Mar 2002 CAPTAIN — nippon telegraph and telephone's videotex system, announced in 1978 and on sale from november 1984. japanese needs thousands of characters, so captain
31 Mar 2002 Netsgo — june 1997, and sk telecom put a service on the phone lines that was half web portal and half korean pc communication network, with its own browser shi
31 Mar 2002 Swissair — chf 123 million was still in the accounts on 2 october 2001, which ernst & young established afterwards. it did not matter at 15:45 that afternoon, wh
Apr 2002 ICL — the british government built a computer company in 1968 by merging what was left of the domestic industry into a single firm, then pointed it at ibm.
Apr 2002 Sneak Prevue — a laserdisc player sat in the cable headend with an amiga 2000 beside it, and a satellite feed told both machines what tonight's pay-per-view lineup w
4 Apr 2002 SceneOne — flextech built an entertainment listings service in february 1999 and then spent three years pushing it through every screen a cable company could rea
11 Apr 2002 Microsoft Hailstorm — hailstorm was bill gates pitching, in march 2001, a microsoft-run cloud that would hold your contacts, calendar, mail and notifications, with passport
11 Apr 2002 Kalisto Entertainment — kalisto was a bordeaux studio started by a nineteen year old in 1990 that ended up listed on the paris stock exchange nine years later, at close to th
15 Apr 2002 iPlanet — aol bought netscape in 1999 and handed the server software straight to sun microsystems. the three year joint venture that came out of that sold web s
29 Apr 2002 Medyakronik — medyakronik read every turkish daily newspaper each morning and published the criticism the same afternoon, which nobody in turkey had been doing at t
30 Apr 2002 Majestic — electronic arts spent around twenty million dollars on a game with almost no screen. it reached you by telephone and by fax, in the middle of an ordin
May 2002 Cool Beans World — a sheffield animation studio built a subscription website of moving comics in 2001 and got pat mills, simon bisley, kevin o'neill and clive barker to
1 May 2002 ITV Digital — ondigital launched in november 1998 as the first pay-tv platform that came in through the ordinary aerial on your roof, which was meant to be its adva
20 May 2002 Dancing Baby — the dancing baby was never meant to be seen by the public. it was a sample file bundled with character studio in august 1996 to show off what the soft
22 May 2002 Mac OS 9 — mac os 9 was the last of the classic mac os releases, the end of the system 7 lineage that had been running on apple machines since 1991. it shipped i
May 2002 Caldera OpenLinux — caldera openlinux was the late nineties business-targeted linux distribution from caldera systems in orem utah, descended from german lst software's d
30 May 2002 Dingo Blue — a gas company that had been lighting sydney since 1837 bought an internet and telephone brand in december 2000 for 22 million dollars, on the theory t
31 May 2002 KPNQwest — kpn and qwest set up a company in 1999 to lay fiber rings across europe and sell capacity on them. by 2000 the network was reckoned to be carrying mor
1 Jun 2002 Security First Network Bank — security first network bank opened on 18 october 1995 with a web page and nothing else. the office of thrift supervision had never chartered a bank th
3 Jun 2002 Napster — shawn fanning was 19 when he wrote it in his college dorm. the site let anyone share mp3s with anyone else. between 1999 and 2001 it had 80 million us
2002 ManBeef.com — manbeef.com went up on 4 january 2001 selling human flesh by the cut, with recipes underneath and a merchandise page at the back, and none of it was r
27 Jun 2002 Netscape Online — aol bought netscape in 1999 and used the name in britain to run a free isp against freeserve. there was no subscription, because the phone company han
28 Jun 2002 RealNames — realnames sold you your own name in the address bar of internet explorer, which worked because it had bought the address bar of internet explorer. mic
Jun 2002 Direct Hit — direct hit launched in april 1998 from boston, founded by gary culliss and mike cassidy. its pitch was that the rank of a result came from how often s
30 Jun 2002 Quiero TV — quiero tv started broadcasting in may 2000 and tried to sell spain pay television through the aerial already on the roof, instead of a dish or a cable
Jul 2002 StarMedia — starmedia was the pan-latin-american portal play, in spanish and portuguese, founded in august 1996 by fernando espuelas and jack chen in new york. it
Jul 2002 PocketStation — the pocketstation was a playstation memory card with a tiny screen and an infrared port, released in japan on 23 january 1999 for 3,000 yen. compatibl
2 Jul 2002 Ebone — europe's national research networks agreed a shared backbone at a ripe meeting in geneva in 1991 and had it running the next year on 256 kbit/s links.
8 Jul 2002 Adobe PhotoDeluxe — photodeluxe was the cd-rom adobe gave away with scanners so the box would feel full. version 1.0 sold over a million copies, version 2.0 was the best-
16 Jul 2002 Scient — eric greenberg walked out of viant in 1997 with a severance check and used it to fund the firm that would spend the next three years beating viant. by
17 Jul 2002 Apple iTools — itools was apple's first bundled online service, introduced by steve jobs at macworld san francisco in january 2000. it gave mac users a free mac.com
21 Jul 2002 WorldCom — worldcom was a long-distance reseller that bernie ebbers built out of a hattiesburg coffee shop in 1983 and grew into the second-largest carrier in th
Aug 2002 Yahoo! Internet Life — yahoo internet life was a monthly print magazine about the internet, published by ziff davis between fall 1995 and august 2002. it started as zd inter
Aug 2002 Presto Studios — presto studios incorporated in san diego in july 1992 so that a group of people in their twenties could finish a time travel adventure nobody wanted t
Aug 2002 TrueType core fonts for the Web — in 1996 microsoft began handing out eleven typefaces at no charge, for windows and for the macintosh, so a page could be designed at one end and arriv
19 Aug 2002 BeSeen — looksmart bought a texas company ten weeks after it incorporated and got a brand that handed out chat rooms and counters to anyone with a home page. f
31 Aug 2002 Arthur Andersen — on 14 march 2002 the justice department indicted an accounting firm rather than the people inside it, and the clients began leaving that same week. th
2002 Broadcast.com — broadcast.com was the streaming portal yahoo bought for about $5.7 billion in stock in july 1999, the most expensive acquisition in yahoo's history at
Sep 2002 Internet Explorer for UNIX — microsoft's browser for solaris and hp-ux, given away free for the x window system from november 1997. it existed because netscape held something like
4 Sep 2002 VoiceStream Wireless — voicestream was the american carrier that bet on gsm while the rest of the country was split between cdma and tdma. that bet is the whole reason deuts
5 Sep 2002 Lante — fifty four dollars and ninety four cents on 11 february 2000, up from a twenty dollar offer price, one of the loudest first days of the entire bubble.
9 Sep 2002 Datek Online — datek online sold stock trades over the web for $9.99 at a point when a full-service broker still charged you a hundred dollars and a phone call, and
11 Sep 2002 Adequacy.org — adequacy.org opened on 4 july 2001 with the slogan news for grown-ups and a masthead of people who had spent years trolling slashdot. the method was t
12 Sep 2002 PurchasePro.com — charles e. johnson jr was worth about 1.26 billion dollars on paper in december 1999, three months after taking a las vegas company public on the idea
18 Sep 2002 General Magic — general magic was a 1990 spinoff out of apple, founded by marc porat with bill atkinson and andy hertzfeld. it built magic cap, a pda operating system
27 Sep 2002 Viant — june 1999 to september 2002 is the whole arc: an ipo, a market cap over two billion dollars by christmas, then three years of layoffs and a stock-for-
1 Oct 2002 Teledesic — teledesic was announced in march 1994 as the internet-in-the-sky company. bill gates and craig mccaw each put five million dollars in. the plan was 84
Oct 2002 Cryo Interactive — cryo was the french studio that decided adventure games should be about places rather than puzzles, and then went and made them with the people who ow
Oct 2002 Corel Ventura — three engineers out of digital research built ventura publisher and xerox put it out at the end of 1986, which made it the first serious desktop publi
18 Oct 2002 DataPlay — dataplay was a 32 millimeter optical disc in a cartridge, 500 megabytes across two sides, designed to replace the cd with something the size of a coin
23 Oct 2002 Intertainer — jonathan taplin started intertainer in 1996 and had movies running over cable and dsl lines into american homes while most of the country was still on
Nov 2002 CDNow — cdnow was the first place you could buy a cd online with a credit card, before amazon had a music store and before napster made the whole question moo
Nov 2002 AOL TV — webtv already existed and was already not working, and that did not stop aol from shipping its own version in june 2000. aol tv was a philips set-top
6 Nov 2002 LetsBuyIt.com — the swedish group-buying dot-com johan stael von holstein founded in april 1999. floated on the german neuer markt in july 2000 just after the dot-com
15 Nov 2002 Quam — 16.45 billion marks bought a german 3G license in august 2000. the company that paid it, a joint venture between telefonica and sonera trading as quam
Dec 2002 Lokau — lokau was the brazilian auction site that launched in july 1999 from sao paulo. iBest bought it in 2001 and made it the portal's exclusive auctions ch
Dec 2002 Gobe Software — the people who wrote clarisworks left claris, moved to portland and built the office suite that beos did not have. gobe productive shipped in august 1
4 Dec 2002 Aimster (Madster) — aimster was a file-sharing tool that piggybacked on aol instant messenger buddy lists, built by rensselaer polytechnic professor john deep in august 2
12 Dec 2002 MapBlast — mapblast was the other map site, the one you went to when mapquest was slow or wrong. vicinity corporation ran it from 1996 and syndicated the same ma
13 Dec 2002 Constellation 3D — one hundred and forty gigabytes on a single disc, announced in a year when a dvd held four and a half. constellation 3d demonstrated a fifty gigabyte
18 Dec 2002 Mobile Adapter GB — mobile adapter gb was a cable and a cartridge that let a game boy color or a game boy advance dial out through a japanese mobile phone. it shipped on
2002 Lotus Word Pro (Ami Pro) — ami pro was the first fully functional word processor for windows, shipped by samna corporation in 1988, a year before microsoft word for windows even
2002 Pokémon Mini — the pokemon mini was the smallest cartridge-based system nintendo ever shipped. seventy grams. a 96 by 64 monochrome lcd. inside the case sat a rumble
2002 HP Jornada — hp shipped the jornada 820 in 1998 as a clamshell windows ce handheld pc with a real keyboard for execs and field engineers. the line ran through the
2002 CliqueMusic — cliquemusic launched on 18 may 2000 with a million dollars behind it and most of brazil's serious music critics on the masthead, and for two years it
2002 Quintet — quintet was founded in april 1989 by two people who had left nihon falcom after making ys, and for six years everything it built came out through enix
2002 Psikyo — psikyo was ten years of vertically scrolling shooters made in kyoto by people who had left video system after building aero fighters there. the games
2002 Iobox — jari ovaskainen sold his car to put the first hundred and twenty thousand dollars into a finnish startup that put email and a portal onto wap phones.
2002 Poo-Chi — ten million of them went out the door in eight months at $24.99 each, which is how a plastic dog with red led eyes for a face became the toy that save

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2001 Amazon Auctions — amazon auctions launched on 30 march 1999 as bezos's direct attack on ebay, with eight million pre-existing amazon customers automatically registered
2001 Claris HomePage — claris homepage was the wysiwyg html editor apple's claris subsidiary shipped to compete with frontpage and pagemill. mac and windows, html 3.2, last
2001 BIX (BYTE Information Exchange) — byte magazine's online service. launched 1985 with $6 evening rates and cosy conferencing software. peaked at 17,000 subscribers, shut down 2001 after
2001 Virtual Places — virtual places was a presence-based chat overlay built by an israeli company called ubique, founded in 1994 in rehovot by ehud shapiro and avner shafr
2001 ShareYourWorld.com — shareyourworld.com launched in 1997 as the first video-sharing website on the open web, founded by chase norlin. it let anyone upload short clips in w
2001 Dogpile — a search engine that was not really a search engine. dogpile never crawled the web itself, it took your query and handed it to altavista and every oth
2001 iSmell — ismell never shipped, so there was nothing to have used. digiscents raised around twenty million dollars to build a usb fin that would puff coded smel
2001 RemarQ — usenet in a web browser, back when that was a real convenience and not a museum piece. remarq let you read and post to the newsgroups without configur
2001 WebCrawler — the first search engine that read the full text of every page it found, not just the titles. a graduate student at the university of washington built
2001 bianca.com — three people with day jobs at hotwired built a website in their off hours and gave it a fictional owner called bianca. the site was a house. you navig
2001 The Useless Pages — a directory of web pages that had no reason to exist, kept alive by three different people across seven years. it began in 1994 when paul phillips fou
2001 GameStorm — kesmai had been running graphical multiplayer games since 1987, when air warrior went up on genie and let strangers fly against each other in real tim
2001 Abuzz — a cambridge company built software that read what you were good at and routed incoming questions to you instead of posting them into a room, which is
2001 Technosoft — technosoft began in 1980 as a microcomputer shop in sasebo, a naval port at the far western end of japan, about as far from the tokyo software industr
2001 Air Warrior — kesmai put air warrior on genie in 1987 and it was one of the first graphical worlds where strangers shared a map in real time. you paid six dollars a
2001 Walnut Creek CDROM — walnut creek sold free software for money, and the sentence only sounds strange if you never had a modem. bob bruce started pressing shareware and pub
2001 Firetalk — firetalk came out of the voice code in a failed multiplayer game and became, for about two years, the friendliest way to talk to strangers over a mode
2001 Speedyclick.com — speedyclick opened in glendale around 1998 and paid people in a currency called speedybucks for sitting on its pages playing blackjack and bingo. you
2001 Commercial Internet eXchange — the nsfnet backbone carried most of american internet traffic and was paid for by the government, so it came with an acceptable use policy saying you
2001 Publius — in july 2000 three researchers put a web publishing system online for a two month trial and named it after the pen name on the federalist papers. it e
2001 InfoGear iPhone — at ces in early 1998 a startup out of redwood city showed a telephone with a seven inch touchscreen and a keyboard that slid out from underneath it. i
2001 Urban Desires — new york, 1994. gabrielle shannon started an arts and culture magazine on the web with chan suh and kyle shannon, who would incorporate agency.com two
2001 Dobedo — the rooms were flat drawn backgrounds and everyone talked in speech bubbles, which in 1998 was enough to pull a hundred thousand swedes into a chat th
2001 Creative Micro Designs — commodore went bankrupt in april 1994 and a small company in east longmeadow, massachusetts kept building new hardware for its machines for another se
2001 JuniorNet — boston, 1996: alan rothenberg set out to build a version of the internet for children in which nothing arrived that had not been checked first. junior
2001 Macintosh Programmer's Workshop — codewarrior took the paying developers and mac os x took the platform out from under it. apple's own development environment for the macintosh ran fro
2001 Online Gaming Review — december 1995, and a website about computer games went up at a point when the games press was still almost entirely paper. ogr grew fast enough to spa
Jan 2001 The Fabulous Sports Babe — on 4 july 1994 espn radio put its first weekday program on the air, and the host was a woman, which had not happened in american national sports talk
Jan 2001 Swoon — condenet put swoon online in 1996, a dating magazine assembled out of four conde nast titles with free personal ads and forums attached. on 16 novembe
Jan 2001 iCAST — david wetherell's cmgi folded two of its companies into an entertainment portal, put it live on 29 february 2000, and announced it was leaving the bus
2001 Mr. T Ate My Balls — somebody smashed the glass out of an exit sign on a dorm floor at the university of illinois in the spring of 1996 and wrote four words on it. nehal p
4 Jan 2001 ipchains — kernel 2.1.102, 14 may 1998, is where it enters the tree, and by the 2.2 series it was the only way to configure a linux firewall. rusty russell wrote
12 Jan 2001 World Online — world online sold internet access across fifteen countries and was worth twelve billion euros for about one afternoon. the float on 17 march 2000 was
15 Jan 2001 MobShop / Accompany — accompany, inc launched in october 1998 in san mateo, founded by jim rose, salim teja and jonathan ehrlich as a consumer group-buying platform. shoppe
19 Jan 2001 Tribal Voice PowWow — powwow was a chat program built by tribal voice in woodland park, colorado in december 1994. john mcafee founded the company after stepping away from
29 Jan 2001 Go.com — go.com was disney's portal play. it launched in january 1999 by stitching together infoseek's search engine with disney's stable of media brands. two
31 Jan 2001 Mercata — mercata launched in may 1999 with a slogan that read like a pitch deck: "the more people who buy, the lower the price." vulcan ventures, paul allen's
31 Jan 2001 PC-VAN — pc-van was nec's pc communication service, opened on 26 april 1986, and with nifty-serve it was one of the two networks that were the japanese interne
Jan 2001 ZineZone — for most of december 1998 the site was called the [password]. by february 1999 the same server was answering as zinezone, a free webzine network with
Feb 2001 Infoseek — i remember infoseek from the 1998-1999 dial-up window. you tried altavista first, then infoseek if altavista was slow that day. it had a clean interfa
Feb 2001 MVP.com — mvp.com was three of the most famous athletes in the world lending their faces to an online sporting-goods store. the money was real, sixty-five milli
Feb 2001 Icebox.com — icebox.com was a web animation studio staffed out of the simpsons writers room, funded like a dot-com and run like a network. it launched on 1 june 19
Feb 2001 ZapMe! — a california company that handed american schools a free computer lab and a satellite connection, and took the corner of every screen as payment. by l
Feb 2001 NetKing — yitzhak rabin was shot on 4 november 1995, and within hours a tel aviv advertising agency had put up a page where you could light a memorial candle in
Feb 2001 Entertaindom — kevin tsujihara took this site over in april 2000, twelve years before he ran warner bros outright. entertaindom was time warner's attempt to build an
12 Feb 2001 Deja News — the searchable archive of usenet, the part of the internet most people had stopped looking at by the time deja news made it searchable. google bought
15 Feb 2001 Bridge Information Systems — $275 million for knight-ridder financial in 1996, nine more companies after that, then dow jones telerate in 1998 for $510 million. bridge information
16 Feb 2001 Broadband Sports — a santa monica content network for jock-blogging that started life as athlete direct. it raised more than $60 million, locked in the digital rights fo
Feb 2001 AllAdvantage — alladvantage was the most plausible-sounding bad idea of the 1999 internet: install a desktop ad bar on your browser, and we will pay you per hour you
28 Feb 2001 Nintendo 64DD — nintendo spent four years promising a magnetic disk drive that would bolt under the n64 and give it writable storage plus a dial-up service. it shippe
28 Feb 2001 Randnet — nintendo put a disk drive under the n64 and then refused to sell it as a disk drive. you subscribed to randnet instead, in yen, by mail order, and the
28 Feb 2001 Natural Wonders — a bankruptcy judge in oakland authorized the going-out-of-business sales on 28 february 2001, ten weeks after the chapter 11 filing and five months af
28 Feb 2001 CalendarCentral — on 1 february 2001 a small company in research triangle park shipped version 4.0 of its web calendar. on the 21st it issued a press release saying it
Mar 2001 GovWorks.com — govworks raised seventy million dollars to let americans pay parking tickets through a website. the camera crew filming it for a sundance doc kept rol
Mar 2001 WinFiles.com — steve jenkins registered windows95.com in 1994 and built the directory people went to when a piece of hardware in their machine had no disk. shareware
Mar 2001 Microsoft V-Chat — microsoft shipped a chat client where the room was a place you moved around in, and it did it in december 1995, before most people had seen a web brow
Mar 2001 Popular Power — marc hedlund and nelson minar started popular power in january 2000 on a simple trade: install a java client, let it use your processor while you were
1 Mar 2001 Buena Vista Internet Group — disney gathered its online units under one name in the late nineties and called it buena vista internet group. when the infoseek purchase closed in ju
Mar 2001 Strategic Simulations — joel billings started ssi in mountain view in 1979 to sell wargames to people who already played wargames on paper, and computer bismarck shipped for
Mar 2001 govWorks — a film crew was in the room for most of it, which is the only reason anybody remembers a company that sold municipal payment software. kaleil isaza tu
Mar 2001 Red Orb Entertainment — redorb is broderbund with the first six letters read backwards, which tells you roughly how much thought went into separating the games from the schoo
Mar 2001 WhirlGirl — david b. williams launched a superhero webcomic in 1997 built out of still panels and looping sound, because a 1997 modem could not carry anything bet
1 Mar 2001 Geocast Network Systems — the plan needed a box under your desk with a television antenna on it and a hard disk inside, filling itself overnight with video you had not asked fo
Mar 2001 DoDots — fifty companies and four hundred independent developers were building on it when the money stopped. dodots took the chrome off a website, shrank what
Mar 2001 Winfire — a toolbar was supposed to pay for your broadband. winfire shipped its first browser assistant in august 1999, a small bar that docked in the windows t
Mar 2001 Display PostScript — on a next cube the window on screen and the page in the printer were drawn by the same interpreter, running the same language, which in 1987 was close
5 Mar 2001 MacWEEK — apple called it macleak, and apple employees kept feeding it anyway. the free san francisco weekly ran a back-page rumor column signed by a person who
8 Mar 2001 Xircom — thousand oaks, california, 1988: dirk gates and kirk mathews worked out how to get a laptop onto an office network through its printer port, which nob
11 Mar 2001 CyberCash — cybercash was the 1994 startup that wanted to be the credit-card layer of the early web, before visa and mastercard had figured out their own online s
12 Mar 2001 PlanetRx — planetrx was one of the online drugstores the late nineties produced on the theory that americans would rather order a prescription from a website tha
19 Mar 2001 Windows Magazine — james fawcette founded windows magazine in 1990 and cmp media bought it a year later. by 1999 it was moving eight hundred thousand paid copies a month
20 Mar 2001 Allaire Corporation — two brothers in minneapolis wrote a tool in 1995 for the problem everyone building a website was about to have, which was getting a database onto a pa
21 Mar 2001 Kerbango — a california startup built the first stand-alone internet radio. it took best of show at ces 2001 with an amazon pre-order page already waiting. 3com
22 Mar 2001 NorthPoint Communications — northpoint was one of the companies trying to build the broadband internet before the big phone carriers bothered. it was a dsl wholesaler, it ran the
29 Mar 2001 CompuBank — compubank opened in houston in october 1998 as the first american bank the comptroller of the currency chartered to operate solely on the internet. it
30 Mar 2001 Sega VMU — the vmu was a dreamcast memory card with a 48 by 32 pixel screen, four buttons and a speaker, and it slotted face-out into a window in the controller
31 Mar 2001 Sega Dreamcast — the dreamcast was the console that introduced built-in modems and online matchmaking to a living-room audience, two years before microsoft and sony fi
1 Apr 2001 EToys.com — etoys was the first online toy store to matter. it went public on january 4 1999 at twenty dollars and closed the day at seventy-six. for a few months
Apr 2001 Xoom (the original) — the third or fourth tier free homepage host of the late 1990s. behind geocities and tripod in scale but in the same business: a free url like members.
Apr 2001 Third Voice — third voice was an internet explorer browser plug-in launched in may 1999 by a menlo park startup of the same name. it let any user post sticky notes
Apr 2001 CrossPad — a pen company and ibm built a clipboard that watched you write. the pen had ink in it and a radio transmitter in the barrel, so the pad underneath kne
4 Apr 2001 News.nl — de telegraaf launched a free evening paper in august 2000 and named it after a web address, which tells you the year without anything else needing to
4 Apr 2001 Berkeley Software Design — rick adams and five members of berkeley's computer systems research group started it in 1991 to sell commercially what the university had been giving
5 Apr 2001 Great Plains Software — fargo, north dakota is where a billion dollar accounting software company came from, which almost nobody outside the midwest believed until microsoft
6 Apr 2001 Indrema — indrema was a linux console announced in march 2000 and buried thirteen months later without a single unit reaching a shelf. the l600 was going to cos
8 Apr 2001 Grendel — jamie zawinski put grendel on the internet on 8 september 1998 with a line that doubled as an epitaph: nobody is actively maintaining it, but there it
9 Apr 2001 NBCi — NBCi was an old tv network's attempt to be a web portal in 1999, stitched together from snap.com plus xoom.com plus a webmail buy and IPO'd at $76 a s
11 Apr 2001 Kozmo.com — kozmo promised free one-hour delivery of videos and pints of ice cream, by bike messenger, in eleven american cities. the unit economics never worked.
11 Apr 2001 WTLS — the final specification runs to 106 pages. five days after approving it the wap forum approved a fifteen page document telling everyone to use ordinar
12 Apr 2001 marchFIRST — in december 1999 a chicago consultancy called whittman-hart agreed to buy a california web shop called usweb/cks in a stock deal worth 5.7 billion dol
13 Apr 2001 Themestream — ten cents landed in your account every time a stranger opened a page you had written. that was the whole offer, and by 2001 more than forty thousand p
15 Apr 2001 WebRing — webring was the discovery layer of the early web. sage weil wrote the original cgi as a high-school project in 1994 and incorporated it as a company i
15 Apr 2001 eCircles — a private, invite-only site where families and friend groups kept photo albums and a shared calendar in one closed space, years before facebook made a
18 Apr 2001 Winstar Communications — winstar sold bandwidth to office buildings over millimeter wave radio instead of over fiber, which in practice meant a small dish on your roof pointed
25 Apr 2001 Stormix — february 1999, in a tower in vancouver, a web host spun out a linux company and spent two years turning debian into something you could buy off a shel
27 Apr 2001 Quokka Sports — a company founded to cover a yacht race by sending home the instrument readings, which turned into the argument that any sports event is a data stream
Apr 2001 My Netscape Network — dan libby wrote a format in march 1999 so that outside websites could push their headlines into a box on netscape's portal page, called it rdf site su
1 May 2001 Daily Radar — daily radar was the imagine media dot-com era entertainment portal, launched october 1999, killed on 1 may 2001. it tried to be an ign peer for male-s
7 May 2001 Bibliofind — in march 2001 bibliofind said somebody had been inside its servers since october and had taken about 98,000 credit card numbers. two months later the
7 May 2001 The Santa Cruz Operation — caldera systems bought a unix business in may 2001 and got the seller's name thrown in with it, which is why the company that spent nine years suing i
15 May 2001 Eazel — eazel was founded in august 1999 by andy hertzfeld, who had written large parts of the original macintosh system software, on the theory that linux wo
16 May 2001 CyberRebate — joel granik incorporated cyberrebate on may 16, 1998 with joseph lichter plus athan vadiakas as cofounders. the company listed consumer goods at three
18 May 2001 SDMI — the record industry built a standards body in 1999 to produce music that would refuse to play unless it was licensed, and put over two hundred compani
29 May 2001 One.Tel — jodee rich and brad keeling started one.tel in sydney in 1995 with about five million dollars and turned it into australia's fourth telephone company
May 2001 Magellan Internet Guide — magellan was a human-edited web directory with star-rated reviews, launched in august 1995 by the mckinley group out of berkeley. it had editorial sta
May 2001 Microsoft PhotoDraw — photodraw was microsoft's attempt at a small-business image editor that sat between photoshop and illustrator. it shipped in june 1999 inside office 2
May 2001 Microsoft Binder — binder was a windows app that let you stitch a word document, an excel sheet and a powerpoint deck into one .obd file with a tab for each. it shipped
31 May 2001 Micron Electronics — micron electronics was the pc company micron technology assembled around zeos in 1995 and stopped wanting by 2001. it sold desktops over the phone out
2001 Microsoft GIF Animator — microsoft gif animator was a 523 kb freeware program from 1996 that stacked still images into one gif89a file and let you set how many times it looped
Jun 2001 Mplayer.com — mplayer was the leading dial-up multiplayer service in north america between 1996 and 2001. mpath interactive launched it as a paid offering in late 1
1 Jun 2001 PSINet — psinet was one of the first companies to sell access to the public internet for money. it grew from a kitchen-table operation in northern virginia int
1 Jun 2001 3Com Audrey — the audrey was 3com's $499 kitchen internet appliance from the ergo brand, a touchscreen tablet with qnx underneath and five pastel color options desi
Jun 2001 Feed Magazine — feed magazine was one of the first webzines that took original writing on the web seriously. stefanie syman and steven berlin johnson launched it in m
Jun 2001 PeopleSound — peoplesound was a london music site that let you stream and download tracks from mostly unsigned artists, and for a short window in 1999 and 2000 it w
1 Jun 2001 SoundJam MP — soundjam mp was the best mp3 player on the mac at the turn of the century, the app that took ninety percent of that small market. apple bought it quie
Jun 2001 X.com — x.com launched on 7 december 1999 in palo alto as an online bank that also sold mutual funds and would move money to another person if you typed their
Jun 2001 PC Player — a german pc games magazine started in december 1992 by two editors who wanted to write about games for adults, and inside eighteen months it was selli
Jun 2001 Wall of Sound — paul allen's starwave built a music magazine inside a seattle office tower and staffed it with people who had written for print. wall of sound ran rev
6 Jun 2001 BitMagic — amsterdam, june 1998: michiel frackers and francisco van jole set up a company to push two or three minutes of animated entertainment onto your deskto
8 Jun 2001 Suck.com — suck.com was the first web zine that ran on a daily schedule, and the first that took the internet seriously enough to make fun of it well. joey anuff
Jun 2001 Automatic Media — automatic media was what happened when two of the best-known webzines on the english-language web stopped being able to pay for themselves separately.
15 Jun 2001 Farmclub.com — jimmy iovine and doug morris announced it on 9 november 1999: a record label wired to a website, with a television show on top. unsigned bands uploade
18 Jun 2001 Women's WIRE — two women who met on the well built the first commercial online service aimed at women, launched it in october 1993 with five hundred members, and cha
21 Jun 2001 Yupi — yupi was one of the big spanish-language web portals of the late 1990s, run out of miami beach with offices across latin america and spain. founded in
26 Jun 2001 HomeGrocer.com — terry drayton and three co-founders started homegrocer in 1997 in bellevue washington with peach-decorated refrigerated trucks and a same-day grocery
28 Jun 2001 Plymouth — 973,000 cars in the 1973 model year, 108,546 in 2000. chrysler launched the brand in 1928 to take the cheap end of the market off chevrolet and ford,
30 Jun 2001 Connectix Virtual Game Station — connectix put a playstation inside a macintosh for forty-nine dollars in january 1999, and sony sued three weeks later. the ninth circuit ruled in feb
Jul 2001 FamilyPC — familypc was the disney and ziff davis joint-venture monthly that ran from august 1994 to july 2001, aimed at american households buying their first h
Jul 2001 iBazar — ibazar was the european person-to-person online auction site that beat ebay to the french market by three years and led the peer-to-peer auction categ
2001 Mahir "I Kiss You" — mahir cagri's homepage was one of the first things the whole internet forwarded to itself for a laugh. a man from izmir put up a cheerful, broken-engl
Jul 2001 The Beast — microsoft hid a game inside the credits of an a.i. trailer and waited for someone to notice a therapist who did not exist. about a hundred people foun
Jul 2001 Ready2shop.com — ready2shop.com was a british fashion advice site founded in november 1999 by trinny woodall and susannah constantine, backed by j.h. whitney and atlas
1 Jul 2001 Informix Corporation — $250 million of sales that were never made is what ended it. roger sippl put $200,000 of his own money into relational database systems in 1980 and sh
Jul 2001 Yupi.com — $150 million went into a spanish language portal in miami beach between 1996 and 1999, and something like $50 million came back out in 2001 when a mic
2 Jul 2001 Zing.com — fifty three million dollars of venture money bought four million members and no way to charge any of them. kleiner perkins and alloy led the rounds, m
3 Jul 2001 Power Mac G4 Cube — apple announced the cube on july 19 2000 and suspended production on july 3 2001. somewhere around 150,000 units shipped against an internal projectio
9 Jul 2001 Webvan — webvan was supposed to deliver your groceries to your front door inside a 30-minute window. it raised hundreds of millions in venture capital, IPO'd i
12 Jul 2001 Psion Series 5 — psion shipped the series 5 in 1997 with a slide-out keyboard better than any pda before or since. it ran epoc32, the os that would later become symbia
12 Jul 2001 HomeRuns.com — homeruns began in 1996 as an experiment by hannaford bros, a supermarket chain that wanted to know whether people would order groceries through a web
16 Jul 2001 Micrografx — paul and george grayson founded micrografx in richardson, texas in 1982 and shipped in*a*vision for windows 1.0 in 1986, which made it one of the very
21 Jul 2001 FreeDiskSpace.com — three hundred megabytes was an absurd amount of room in 1999, enough that the site listed warez in its own keywords to explain who it was really for.
Aug 2001 InternetCash.com — internetcash was a new york prepaid-card company that launched in april 1999 under charles doherty and yiannis tsiounis. shoppers bought a card in sto
1 Aug 2001 SportBrain — thirty-six thousand people bought a ninety-nine dollar pedometer that phoned a website every night, and when the company ran out of money they wrote i
Aug 2001 dotDoomed.com — eighty thousand ratings in six months, all of them answering one question: is this company doomed or is it doing well. dotdoomed.com kept an alphabeti
14 Aug 2001 Dynamix — ninety-seven people lost their jobs in eugene, oregon on 14 august 2001, less than five months after they shipped tribes 2. dynamix had spent seventee
16 Aug 2001 The Industry Standard — the magazine that got fat on the dot-com boom and died when it ended. the industry standard launched in 1998 as a weekly print magazine about the inte
20 Aug 2001 ListBot — submit it! built a free mailing list host, linkexchange absorbed it in june 1998, and microsoft owned it by november of the same year. by january 2000
22 Aug 2001 Trojan Room coffee pot — the trojan room coffee pot was the world's first webcam. two cambridge researchers, quentin stafford-fraser and paul jardetzky, pointed a frame-grabbe
Aug 2001 FrontPage Express — frontpage express was the free wysiwyg html editor microsoft shipped with internet explorer 4 and 5. it was a cut-down version of frontpage 97, bundle
26 Aug 2001 Beenz.com — beenz tried to be money for the web before money for the web was a thing anyone had figured out. it raised about $100m, signed up 15 country offices,
26 Aug 2001 Flooz.com — flooz wanted to be a parallel currency for the web. you bought credits with a card or received them as a corporate gift voucher, then you spent the ba
27 Aug 2001 Chromatis Networks — four and a half billion dollars in lucent stock, paid in june 2000 for a two-year-old company that had yet to sell its product, and fifteen months lat
29 Aug 2001 BlueLight.com — a big-box retailer decided to give away internet access so people would shop at its stores, then discovered that free dial-up brings you everyone exce
30 Aug 2001 Corel Linux — michael cowpland stood at a comdex booth in november 1999 and said that dos had its ten years, windows had its ten years, and linux was next. the prod
31 Aug 2001 Grand Royal — three rappers from new york ran a record label for nine years and a magazine for four of them, and the magazine is the part that got into the dictiona
Sep 2001 Wingspan Bank — bank one built an internet-only bank in 1999 and pointed the advertising at itself: if your bank could start over, this is what it would be. it spent
Sep 2001 Rhythms NetConnections — catherine hapka left us west in 1997 to build a company that sold dsl to businesses, and for two years it worked. microsoft and the investment arm of
Sep 2001 Orientation.com — thirty-two country doors, from albania to uganda, under a logo that read think globally, search locally. it began in 1996 as asia's web directory and
6 Sep 2001 Great Bridge — norfolk, virginia is not where you expect the first commercial postgresql to come from, but that is where a newspaper conglomerate put fifteen months
13 Sep 2001 Sony eVilla — the sony evilla was a kitchen internet appliance with a vertical crt and a beos-derived operating system, priced at $499 plus $21.95 a month for the b
14 Sep 2001 Netfolio — james o'shaughnessy wrote what works on wall street, sold his mutual fund family in 2000, and put the proceeds behind an idea he called the personal f
21 Sep 2001 El Sitio — el sitio was the argentine answer to the late-nineties latin american portal race. roberto vivo-chaneton and roberto cibrian-campoy founded it in 1997
21 Sep 2001 biztravel.com — in the week after 11 september 2001, bookings fell by as much as seventy percent and a travel company in philadelphia closed the site it had bought tw
26 Sep 2001 e-Stamp.com — e-stamp shipped postage to a PC over a phone line in 1999. it was the first company the USPS approved for internet postage, and it shipped a usb hardw
26 Sep 2001 Exodus Communications — two engineers started a company in 1994 on the idea that other people's servers belonged in a building with better power and better bandwidth than any
28 Sep 2001 Contentville — cbs took thirty-five percent of contentville and paid for it in advertising inventory rather than cash, forty million dollars of airtime over three ye
Sep 2001 Hotline — hotline was what mac users used to share files between 1997 and 2001, before napster made the same thing easier on every other platform. a 17-year-old
1 Oct 2001 Excite@Home — excite@home was the company that made cable broadband real in the us before cable broadband was a thing. then it paid $6.7 billion for the excite port
1 Oct 2001 Excite — excite was one of the half-dozen us portals you saw on every late-90s magazine cover. six stanford undergrads built it. by 1997 it was the sixth-most-
Oct 2001 PictureTel — two mit students and their professor started it in august 1984 to sell the first commercial codec that could push moving pictures down a dial-up isdn
Oct 2001 LineOne — lineone was the internet arriving free inside a sunday newspaper. bt built it in 1997 with two newspaper groups behind it and pushed the setup softwar
Oct 2001 Headbone Zone — susan lammers left microsoft after eight years, put her own money into a children's cd-rom studio in seattle, and ended up building a website that mat
Oct 2001 Brill's Content — brill's content launched in june 1998 as a monthly magazine that covered the american press the way the american press covered everybody else. steven
1 Oct 2001 Microsoft BackOffice Server — by late 1994 microsoft had a server operating system and a growing pile of server products that ran on top of it, and no single thing to sell a compan
Oct 2001 Silicon Alley Reporter — jason calacanis started silicon alley reporter in 1996 as a small magazine about a few blocks of manhattan that had decided they were an industry. at
1 Oct 2001 Mademoiselle — sylvia plath spent a month of 1953 as a guest editor here and turned it into the opening of the bell jar, which is more literary afterlife than most m
3 Oct 2001 first-e — first-e opened in september 1999 as europe's first internet-only bank, run out of dublin by an irish incubator called enba, trading on a banking licen
9 Oct 2001 MobileStar — mobilestar built the first serious public wi-fi network in america and signed starbucks in january 2001, which meant paying for a wired t1 line into e
11 Oct 2001 Polaroid Corporation — polaroid was edwin land's 1937 cambridge optics company that built the instant camera as a consumer product after his daughter asked in 1944 why she c
11 Oct 2001 Bert is Evil — bert is evil went up on 30 march 1997, a page of manufactured photographic evidence that the sesame street character had been present at the worst eve
19 Oct 2001 Open Market — in may 1996 a cambridge software company sold shares to the public, more than doubled on the first day and closed with a market capitalization of 1.2
24 Oct 2001 NetRadio.com — netradio.com was the first internet-only radio network. it launched in october 1995 from eden prairie minnesota with realaudio streams and grew to 125
25 Oct 2001 DriveSpace — microsoft shipped doublespace with ms-dos 6.0 in march 1993, and it doubled the space on a hard disk by compressing everything into one hidden file th
25 Oct 2001 3D Maze — 3d maze is what your monitor did when you walked away from it. a randomly generated brick corridor with a camera moving through it on its own, and a t
25 Oct 2001 Cardfile — the address book that shipped inside windows for sixteen years, built on the idea of a wooden box of index cards. you typed a name on the index line a
25 Oct 2001 Lernout & Hauspie — ypres, a small town in west flanders better known for a war, spent the nineties building the company that was going to own the human voice. lernout &
30 Oct 2001 Neo Geo Pocket Color — neo geo pocket color was snk's 16-bit color handheld with a microswitched mini-joystick that arcade purists actually liked. it launched in japan in ma
Oct 2001 Inside.com — inside.com was a media-industry trade journalism subscription site from kurt andersen and michael hirschorn. it launched in may 2000 on $35 million of
Nov 2001 Cyberian Outpost — the connecticut e-tailer that sold computer hardware in eleven languages to a hundred and forty countries before the bubble burst. the 1999 super bowl
Nov 2001 8848.com — 8848 opened on 18 may 1999 and was the first online store in china with real inventory behind it, named for the height of everest in meters. by early
1 Nov 2001 Sportal — sportal was a british company that built and ran the official websites of europe's biggest football clubs, founded by rob hersov in the late nineties
1 Nov 2001 Zip.net — zip.net was brazil's first free webmail and then, for about three years, one of the country's largest portals. marcos de moraes launched zipmail in au
Nov 2001 bleem! — bleem! was a playstation emulator sold in a box on a shelf while the playstation was still the console everybody owned. it read your own discs and ran
Nov 2001 Myth: The Fallen Lords — bungie.net was built to run the multiplayer for a 1997 game about dwarves rolling satchel charges down hills, and it is now the backend for destiny. m
6 Nov 2001 Mr. Showbiz — mr. showbiz went live on 1 may 1995, built in seattle by starwave, the company paul allen founded to find out what media on the internet was going to
7 Nov 2001 Sabena — a recapitalization was signed in july 2001 and the money never moved. that is the whole ending. belgium's flag carrier had spent six years under swiss
8 Nov 2001 HeadHunter.NET — 184,153 job listings and 340,463 resumes, counted on the homepage in january 2000, which was the entire pitch: a board big enough that you did not nee
13 Nov 2001 BeOS — beos was the cult operating system from be inc., the company started by ex-apple executive jean-louis gassée in 1990. it shipped first on the bebox in
13 Nov 2001 Be Inc. — palm paid about eleven million dollars for what was left of be in august 2001, and the shareholders voted the company out of existence that november.
20 Nov 2001 SafeWeb — safeweb was a box on a web page. you typed an address into it and the site fetched that page for you over ssl, so anyone watching your line saw one en
Nov 2001 Segfault — segfault was a parody of slashdot running slashdot's own machinery. readers submitted the stories and editors picked them. the front page filled with
Dec 2001 DrKoop.com — drkoop.com was a dot-com health portal fronted by c. everett koop, the bowtie us surgeon general from the eighties. it launched as personal medical re
Dec 2001 PhotoPoint — photopoint was one of the first places you could put your photographs on the internet for free, and by the end it held more than ten million of them f
Dec 2001 Saturn Communications — the kapiti coast, north of wellington, is where somebody first put a wire into new zealand houses that did not belong to telecom. kiwi cable started t
1 Dec 2001 TWA — carl icahn took control of twa in 1985 and took it private three years later, leaving the airline roughly $540 million deeper in debt. the carrier tha
Dec 2001 Enciklopedio Kalblanda — stefano kalb registered mebsuta.com on 11 january 1996 and spent the next five years writing an encyclopedia in esperanto, by himself, one article at
Dec 2001 iPublish — thirteen million dollars bought time warner an e-book imprint and about eighteen months of it. the writers did the reading for free: you rated other p
1 Dec 2001 iName — two men bought twelve hundred domain names in the mid nineties and had to find a way to pay the renewal fees, so they gave away email addresses on the
2 Dec 2001 Enron — andrew fastow ran the off-balance-sheet partnerships that held enron's debt, and he ran some of them for his own account. the company booked nearly $1
4 Dec 2001 RealJukebox — realjukebox was realnetworks' mp3 ripper and organizer, released in may 1999 for windows. by november 1999 a security researcher caught it sending uni
5 Dec 2001 MediaBrowser — mark c. brown's company sold one idea, which was internet explorer with somebody else's artwork wrapped around it. nintendo liked that idea enough to
7 Dec 2001 OmniSky — omnisky put a radio on the back of a palm v and charged thirty nine ninety five a month for as much data as you could pull through it. that was 2000,
7 Dec 2001 Netcentives — $72 million came in at the october 1999 ipo and the stock touched eighty dollars a share. two years later the same stock was sixty-nine cents and the
7 Dec 2001 Asiaweek — four editors in twenty-six years, and the last of them signed the closing notice herself. asiaweek was time inc's english-language newsweekly for asia
14 Dec 2001 Demirbank — halit cıngıllıoğlu ran a bank his family had founded in istanbul in 1953 with money from iron merchants, and by 2000 it had 198 branches and stood fif
18 Dec 2001 AdCritic.com — two hundred thousand people registered to watch advertising nobody was paying them to watch, which sounds like a business and was not one. every view
19 Dec 2001 Egghead.com — victor alhadeff opened the first egghead software store in bellevue washington in 1984 with backing from paul allen. by 1989 the chain had 206 stores
2001 CueCat — the cat-shaped barcode reader. dotcom-era brain product. you would get one free with your wired or forbes magazine. you scanned a barcode in a print a
2001 Microsoft Comic Chat — microsoft comic chat was an irc client that turned your text conversation into a comic strip with cartoon avatars. david kurlander's team at microsoft
2001 The Palace — the graphical chat platform from 1995. you joined a "palace," which was a set of 2D rooms with painted backgrounds. you saw yourself and other users a
2001 Bullfrog Productions — bullfrog productions invented the god game with populous in 1989 and ran a six-year streak of management sims and strategy titles that nobody has matc
31 Dec 2001 Bildschirmtext (BTX) — bildschirmtext was the german national videotex service. the federal post minister christian schwarz-schilling pressed a button at the ifa fair in wes
2001 GeoWorks Ensemble — geoworks ensemble was berkeley softworks' bet that the millions of 286 boxes on desks in 1990 deserved a real gui without buying a new pc. it ran on d
2001 Attic Entertainment Software — attic was three equal partners in albstadt, a small town in swabia, who spent the nineties turning germany's own tabletop role playing system into com
31 Dec 2001 Secret Service — secret service put the first cover disk and then the first cover cd into polish kiosks, and it ran the first manga coverage the country had ever seen
31 Dec 2001 Windows 95 — a million copies moved in four days, and microsoft had paid for the moment in advance: a rolling stones song, the empire state building lit in four co
31 Dec 2001 MS-DOS — twenty five thousand dollars bought microsoft an operating system somebody else had written, and the ibm contract stacked on top of it did the rest. f
2001 Mythos Games — a publisher that stopped writing checks in april 2001 is what killed mythos games, and the project it stopped paying for was a 3d remake of x-com by t

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2000 Microsoft ActiMates — actimates was a line of interactive plush dolls released by microsoft kids starting september 1997. the first character was barney. arthur and his sis
2000 MPMan F10 — the mpman f10 was the first mass-market portable mp3 player. saehan information systems shipped it in march 1998 in south korea, six months before the
2000 LANtastic — artisoft shipped lantastic out of tucson arizona in 1987 as the first peer-to-peer pc network anyone could run without a dedicated server. by 1990 it
2000 Computer.com — computer.com was the dot-com that exists in business-school slides as the company that spent half of its $7 million in venture capital on super bowl x
2000 UUCP — uucp was how unix machines talked to each other before the internet reached most of them. unix-to-unix copy, written at bell labs in 1979, moved mail
2000 MBone — mbone was the internet's first real attempt at broadcasting to many people at once. built in 1992 as an experimental overlay of tunnels stitched acros
2000 Olé — spain had a search engine before it had google, and a catalan research foundation built it with public money and then sold it to the employee who had
2000 GauchoNet — gonzalo arzuaga was a business student in buenos aires who spent the summer of 1996 in a university computer lab typing argentine websites into a list
Jan 2000 Human Entertainment — human spent its first years building famicom games that shipped with nintendo's name on the box and bandai's name on the box, then put its own name on
2000 AOLpress — it started as navipress in february 1994, from a small company in goleta, california, and it did the thing the web was originally designed to do: you
Jan 2000 Windows Neptune — neptune was supposed to be the version where home windows finally stopped being built on dos. one build, 5111, went out to developers in december 1999
2000 EIES — murray turoff built the electronic information exchange system at the new jersey institute of technology with national science foundation funding, and
2000 Gooey — gooey was a small windows download that watched which page your browser was on and put you in a room with everybody else who was on it. forty six thou
2000 Qmodem — john friel iii wrote it in turbo pascal in 1984 and sold it as shareware, and it took the dos terminal slot away from pc-talk by being faster. for a d
2000 X-Stream Network — two canadian brothers worked out that a british isp did not need to charge a subscription, because the phone company was already billing the customer
2000 Global Village Communication — global village started in mountain view in june 1989 and spent a decade making modems for one computer company's customers. the teleport sat on the de
2000 Society for Preventing Parents from Naming Their Children Jennifer — a mailing list with five jennifers on it produced one line of complaint in 1996, and jennifer farwell went and built the website. the society for prev
2000 CareerMosaic — an advertising agency that had spent decades buying help wanted space in american newspapers looked at the web in 1994 and put the listings there inst
2000 ePods — a twenty two year old chief executive in belltown, funded by the company that sold the george foreman grill. what they were building was a two pound w
Jan 2000 L0pht Heavy Industries — on 19 may 1998 seven men gave evidence to a senate committee under their handles and told it they could take the whole internet down in half an hour.
2000 SingleTrac — twisted metal came out for the playstation in 1995 with warhawk beside it, both from a salt lake city studio founded the year before by engineers out
5 Jan 2000 General Instrument — motorola closed the largest acquisition in its history on 5 january 2000 and the name on the cable box changed. general instrument had been going sinc
7 Jan 2000 Visio Corporation — seven january 2000, a stock swap worth roughly one and a half billion dollars, the biggest check redmond had ever written to that date. what it bought
7 Jan 2000 Caldera, Inc. — ray noorda lost the netware market to microsoft and then spent part of what was left of his fortune buying dr-dos off novell for four hundred thousand
10 Jan 2000 Cygnus Solutions — making free software affordable was the slogan and it was also the whole business plan. three people started the company on 13 november 1989 and booke
21 Jan 2000 Gettingit.com — r.u. sirius got the editor-in-chief job by showing his interviewer a web site featuring an interview with charles manson's webmaster. the money behind
4 Feb 2000 MindSpring — the atlanta dial-up isp charles brewer founded in february 1994. ran on a customer-service obsession that was unusual for the era, with named technici
5 Feb 2000 ZAZ — a software company in porto alegre put a large part of brazil online, and for three years zaz was the second biggest thing on the brazilian web. telef
11 Feb 2000 Cavedog Entertainment — cavedog entertainment was set up in 1995 inside humongous entertainment as the adult-games division for chris taylor's real-time strategy project. tot
17 Feb 2000 Microsoft Personal Web Server — personal web server was the free web server microsoft put in the add-ons folder of the windows 98 cd and in the nt 4.0 option pack. it let a desktop a
22 Feb 2000 iCraveTV — icravetv was a canadian web service that grabbed over-the-air broadcast tv signals from the toronto market and pushed them back out as live realvideo
2000 Lycos' TOP 5% — nineteen categories and a badge you could not award yourself. lycos' top 5% came out of point communications in 1995 and spent five years telling the
Mar 2000 JavaStation — no hard drive, no removable media of any kind, and an operating system that could only run java. the javastation-1 arrived in november 1996 at 699 dol
Mar 2000 Confinity — at a restaurant in woodside, california in july 1999, a venture capitalist held a palmpilot up to another palmpilot across the table and beamed 4.5 mi
3 Mar 2000 Amezou — in april 1999 the busiest bulletin board in japan belonged to one anonymous person who had started it as a page of links two years earlier. amezou mad
8 Mar 2000 Tradex Technologies — in december 1999 ariba agreed to buy tradex for about 1.9 billion dollars in stock. by the time the deal closed on 8 march 2000 those same 19 million
20 Mar 2000 StockGeneration — sg ltd sold shares in eleven companies that did not exist, from a website registered in dominica under a gambling license. one of the eleven was adver
30 Mar 2000 InterSpace Cyber Society — at five in the afternoon on 30 march 2000, ntt switched off the free 3d world it had been running since july 1997. the client was a native windows app
1 Apr 2000 989 Studios — 989 studios was sony's american first-party game studio brand on the original playstation. it shipped twisted metal 3 and 4. it also held the syphon f
1 Apr 2000 Microsoft Vizact — vizact was microsoft's bet on a non-developer interactivity tool inside the office 2000 family. it was announced may 26 1999 and shipped in september
Apr 2000 The Panda Project — boca raton, 1992. stanford crane took over don estridge's old offices and built a workstation around a 256-bit backplane and a connector that put 1,10
Apr 2000 Stac Electronics — five caltech graduate students opened a consulting shop in pasadena in 1983 and turned it into a chip company designing compression silicon for tape d
9 Apr 2000 Falcon 4.0 — microprose shipped falcon 4.0 on december 11 1998 after six years of development at the alameda spectrum holobyte studio. it was the most ambitious ci
14 Apr 2000 Interleaf — in 1985 a document system cost about sixty thousand dollars and arrived as furniture, sun workstations and a laser printer bought from interleaf as on
Apr 2000 Sega Saturn — the saturn won japan and lost everywhere else. 9.26 million units total, more than half of them in japan. its dual-cpu design made every port a nightm
May 2000 Island of Kesmai — two university of virginia classmates wrote a six-player dungeon game in the summer of 1980 and spent five years turning it into something an online s
May 2000 Amiga Format — future publishing launched amiga format in august 1989 with a floppy taped to the cover, and for about three years it was the biggest amiga magazine a
3 May 2000 Datapoint Corporation — phil ray and gus roche incorporated computer terminal corporation in san antonio in july 1968 to build a quieter replacement for the teletype. two of
4 May 2000 Good Times Virus Hoax — good times was an email that warned you about an email. it showed up in november 1994, described a virus that could not exist, and asked you to forwar
5 May 2000 Red Rocket — four in the afternoon, eastern time, on 5 may 2000. that is when viacom switched off its online toy store and pointed redrocket.com at a notice page s
17 May 2000 Digital Entertainment Network — DEN was supposed to be the MTV of the internet. niche-channel streaming video aimed at young men, funded by microsoft and intel and NBC, with a $75 mi
18 May 2000 Boo.com — the dot-com era's most expensive flameout. ernst malmsten and kajsa leander raised $135 million between 1998 and 2000 to build an online fashion retai
20 May 2000 Life magazine — the american photojournalism weekly of record. henry luce launched it on 23 november 1936 and by the 1950s it was reaching roughly a quarter of the un
22 May 2000 Toysmart — toysmart was a us-only online toy store that ran out of money during the 2000 dot-com crash and tried to sell its customer database to pay its credito
24 May 2000 Looking Glass Studios — looking glass studios was started as blue sky productions in 1990 in salem new hampshire by paul neurath and ned lerner, merged with lerner research i
29 May 2000 Aliens Online — aliens online charged ten dollars a month to put you inside the hive. the marines got classes and motion trackers, the aliens got the whole map on rad
Jun 2000 Pixelon — pixelon was a 1998 startup that promised dvd-quality streaming over a 56k modem. the founder "michael fenne" was actually david kim stanley, a convict
Jun 2000 Epidemic Marketing — a denver company that installed a plug-in called epinabler into your mail program and paid you a commission when somebody clicked the ad it stapled to
Jun 2000 John Labovitz's e-zine-list — 4,392 zines, each one checked and listed with its contact details, is where the e-zine-list stopped. john labovitz started it in the summer of 1993 to
19 Jun 2000 Reel.com — a video store owner's recommendation cards, rebuilt as a website, with a shop bolted on because nobody pays for advice. it worked well enough that hol
30 Jun 2000 Nintendo Satellaview — the satellaview was a modem-shaped peripheral that clipped under the super famicom and pulled games down from a satellite radio broadcaster. it ran in
Jun 2000 Verant Interactive — verant interactive was the studio that actually shipped everquest. it spun out of 989 studios in 1998 with john smedley, brad mcquaid, russell shanks
Jul 2000 Altern.org — valentin lacambre gave away web space in france for eight years with no advertising, no contract and no questions about who you were. in 1998 somebody
Jul 2000 SavvySearch — a graduate student at colorado state university named daniel dreilinger put savvysearch on the web in march 1995, built on one idea: rather than crawl
2 Jul 2000 PlanetAll — planetall was a 1996 web service for keeping your address book and your school directory in the same place. members got reminders when someone they kn
3 Jul 2000 Addicted to Noise — michael goldberg left rolling stone and put a music magazine on the web in december 1994, before almost anyone had worked out what a music magazine on
24 Jul 2000 Spyglass Mosaic — a company in illinois licensed the mosaic name from ncsa, rewrote the browser properly, and sold it to anybody who wanted one. microsoft was one of th
24 Jul 2000 Spyglass, Inc. — microsoft paid eight million dollars in january 1997 to make a contract go away. the contract was the 1995 license for spyglass mosaic, written as a r
31 Jul 2000 Clickmango.com — clickmango raised its funding in eight days in the autumn of 1999, on a plan to sell vitamins and health products to british households over the web.
31 Jul 2000 Pandesic — intel and sap started pandesic in august 1997 to sell smaller companies a complete e-commerce operation in one package, the software bundled with the
Aug 2000 eGroups — the mailing-list service that turned into yahoo groups. scott hassan started it in 1997 as findmail, an archive for email lists, and it grew into the
Aug 2000 Word.com — word was one of the first webzines that treated the browser as an art material. it launched in june 1995 out of new york, published something new almo
Aug 2000 Fred the Webmate — fred opened every conversation by telling you he had just been let go by a big new media company. he was a shockwave character pacing around a small c
3 Aug 2000 RelayOne — 400 items a month is what a national postal service will tolerate before it stops. relayone was royal mail's attempt at the join between email and pap
11 Aug 2000 Value America — value america wanted to be the store that sold everything, wiring you straight to the manufacturer so nothing ever sat in a warehouse. it went public
15 Aug 2000 Living.com — living.com was an austin-based home-furnishings dot-com that raised over a hundred million dollars and lasted thirteen months. amazon signed a five-ye
17 Aug 2000 Quantex — quantex sold pcs by mail order out of somerset, new jersey from 1984 and spent the nineties winning build-quality awards against companies with far bi
31 Aug 2000 Quack.com — pittsburgh in 1998 produced a company whose entire product was a phone number. you dialed it, you spoke, and quack.com read you stock quotes and movie
31 Aug 2000 Auction Universe — the parent company of the los angeles times built an auction site in 1997 and pointed it at ebay. auction universe ran city-by-city auction pages for
Sep 2000 Miadora — fifty-one million dollars in roughly eighteen months, against an average order over eight hundred. miadora sold fine jewelry online out of san mateo a
Sep 2000 Efdex — tim carron-brown had the idea in the mid-nineties: put the whole food and drink trade onto one electronic exchange with prices updating by the minute,
7 Sep 2000 APBnews.com — apbnews.com launched in august 1998 with venture money and a real newsroom, covering crime and criminal justice for the web at a point when nobody els
14 Sep 2000 QBasic — qbasic arrived in june 1991 with ms-dos 5.0 as the replacement for gw-basic, a full-screen editor with an interpreter behind it and a help system that
14 Sep 2000 Windows CD Player — the small gray applet under accessories that played whatever audio cd was in the drive. it had no idea what the disc was, so you typed the artist and
14 Sep 2000 MacsBug — a machine-level debugger apple gave away for nothing, which thousands of people who could not read assembly installed anyway. the classic mac os had n
14 Sep 2000 Quick View — right click a file in windows 95, pick quick view, and a window opened with the contents in it. no application, no wait, no license for whatever wrote
14 Sep 2000 Windows File Manager — 22 may 1990 put winfile.exe in windows 3.0, two panes over a row of drive letters, and it stayed shipping long past the point microsoft had a replacem
18 Sep 2000 Pseudo.com — pseudo.com was the first serious attempt at internet television, founded in new york by josh harris in 1993, six years before broadband was something
21 Sep 2000 Aureal Vortex — the pc sound chip line that pushed 3d positional audio in late-90s games. aureal semiconductor bought crystal river engineering in may 1996 for the he
30 Sep 2000 NETCOM On-Line Communication Services — netcom was a bay area dial-up isp that ran shell accounts and the netcruiser dialer through the early-1990s commercial-internet boom. it was bought by
Sep 2000 SegaSoft — a 50-50 joint venture between sega and csk, set up in 1995 to sell pc games to americans by a company whose whole identity was arcade hardware. the ga
Oct 2000 Pop.com — pop.com was a $50 million spielberg-katzenberg-grazer-howard short-video venture funded by paul allen, announced in october 1999, and dissolved twelve
Oct 2000 Urbanfetch — ross stevens launched urbanfetch in 1999 as the manhattan rival to kozmo.com with the same promise: any low-value impulse item delivered by bike messe
Oct 2000 Productopia — twenty two million dollars bought editorial advice across 634 product categories and a san francisco office that was empty by the first week of octobe
Oct 2000 Gazoontite — thirty-one million dollars of venture capital went into a company that sold pillowcases and air filters to people who could not breathe. the web site
2 Oct 2000 Kibu.com — a teen-girl web portal funded by jim clark and kleiner perkins to $22 million. it went online in may 2000 and laid off all 65 staff on 2 october, 46 d
3 Oct 2000 Accolade — two atari programmers who had already helped start activision founded accolade in 1984 and spent fifteen years publishing test drive and hardball, plu
5 Oct 2000 Priceline WebHouse Club — webhouse club was jay walker's bet that priceline's name-your-price model would work for anything, including groceries and gasoline. it launched in no
9 Oct 2000 Freei — freei was a free dial-up internet provider out of federal way, washington, that dialed you a local number and paid for it with a strip of advertising
11 Oct 2000 Boxman — boxman was europe's answer to buying music online, founded in sweden in 1997 and run out of london, selling cds into eight countries at a moment when
13 Oct 2000 Scour — scour was a multimedia search engine and, through scour exchange, one of the earliest peer-to-peer file-sharing networks, built by five ucla computer
20 Oct 2000 Eve.com — eve.com sold luxury beauty products on the early american web. mariam naficy and varsha rao founded it in 1998, sold it to bill gross's idealab for $1
20 Oct 2000 MyLackey.com — two former echange executives started mylackey in seattle in april 1999 to run errands for people who worked too many hours. contractors in branded sh
20 Oct 2000 Zatso — on friday 20 october 2000 zatso stopped making newscasts, two weeks after cutting its staff to thirty-eight. the service let you choose which local tv
25 Oct 2000 RemoteAccess — andrew milner started remoteaccess in australia in 1989 as a clone of quickbbs, and it turned into the most heavily extended shareware in the bbs worl
30 Oct 2000 Multics — in april 1969 bell labs walked out of the multics project and took nothing with it except the idea. what the deserters wrote instead, on a discarded p
31 Oct 2000 Heat.net — heat.net was segasoft's attempt to build the online layer for pc gaming before sega ever shipped a console online service. it launched in 1997 as a fr
31 Oct 2000 Lotus cc:Mail — cc:mail started in the mid '80s at a silicon valley startup called concentric systems, founded by robert plummer with hubert lipski and michael palmer
Nov 2000 iCanBuy — parents put money into an account, chose which stores their kid could spend it at, and set a limit for each one. that was icanbuy, opened in march 199
2 Nov 2000 Urban Box Office — ubo raised more than forty million dollars in 1999 to build a network of websites for what its own pitch deck called the urban mindset, took several f
6 Nov 2000 Furniture.com — furniture.com was a framingham massachusetts online furniture retailer backed by cmgi and a venture syndicate. it raised twenty-seven million dollars
6 Nov 2000 CATS — on a friday in november 1977 the toronto stock exchange switched on a computer that matched orders and set prices without a human in the middle, start
7 Nov 2000 MotherNature.com — mothernature.com was a concord massachusetts online retailer of vitamins and supplements. it went live in 1996 and ipo'd in december 1999 at the tail
9 Nov 2000 Pets.com — the online pet supply store that became the face of the dot-com bust. amazon owned a majority stake. a sock puppet with a microphone did super bowl ad
10 Nov 2000 PageNet — pagenet was the largest paging company in the world, more than ten million pagers in service and about a billion dollars a year in revenue, and it spe
10 Nov 2000 Daewoo Motors — kim woo-choong started with a textile trading office in 1967 and built korea's second largest conglomerate out of it, and when the group went down in
14 Nov 2000 JavaScript Style Sheets — in august 1996 netscape sent the w3c a stylesheet language made of javascript, where you styled a heading by assigning to document.tags.h1.fontsize in
15 Nov 2000 Diamond Multimedia — diamond multimedia was the brand on a generation of mid-90s pc hardware. monster 3d voodoo graphics boards. stealth and viper svga cards. monster soun
15 Nov 2000 Garden.com — garden.com was an austin-based online gardening retailer started by cliff sharples and his wife lisa with their wharton classmate jamie o'neill in 199
15 Nov 2000 Virgin Webplayer — ten thousand of them went out free to people who agreed to be monitored. the webplayer was a 200mhz pc in a flat white shell that could dial exactly o
22 Nov 2000 Streamline.com — streamline.com was founded in 1993 by tim demello in westwood, massachusetts as a subscription grocery delivery service for boston suburbs. the model
27 Nov 2000 TechWeek — sunnyvale, california, where metro states media printed a free biweekly for a hundred thousand silicon valley desks. the last issue went out on 27 nov
29 Nov 2000 Visitalk.com — phoenix, arizona, september 1998. a company that wanted to be the phone book for internet calls, handing out permanent twelve-digit numbers and routin
30 Nov 2000 MetaCreations — kai krause built interfaces that looked like nothing else in software, dark curved panels with unlabeled dials you turned to find out what they did, a
Dec 2000 1stUp.com — in 1998 a san francisco company worked out that if you wrapped the browser in an advertising frame you could give dial-up internet away and bill the a
4 Dec 2000 germany.net — michaela merz and stephan hess started it in frankfurt in 1994 with an offer nobody else in germany made: no access fee, only the phone call. the catc
5 Dec 2000 Petopia.com — the second pets.com. petopia raised one hundred fourteen million dollars from petco and tcv and the usual venture row, launched in august 1999, hit tw
6 Dec 2000 Chemdex — david perry founded chemdex in september 1997 to move the catalog of laboratory chemicals and equipment onto the web and take a fee on every purchase
7 Dec 2000 Cobalt Networks — mountain view, 1996: a few engineers out of apple's hardware group built a small blue linux server for people who did not want to spend a weekend inst
8 Dec 2000 Riffage.com — riffage.com was a 1999 attempt to sell music straight from bands to fans over the web, built by ken wirt, the diamond multimedia executive behind the
15 Dec 2000 3dfx Interactive — 3dfx invented the consumer 3d accelerator as a category and then handed the category to nvidia inside five years. voodoo cards and the glide api were
19 Dec 2000 Stan Lee Media — on 15 december 2000 the company suspended operations and laid off nearly all of its roughly 140 staff, and four days later it was done. it had been wo
19 Dec 2000 HotOffice — on 19 december 2000 a lawyer in palm beach county opened the case that ended hotoffice, four years after it was unveiled at comdex as the world's firs
30 Dec 2000 SixDegrees.com — sixdegrees.com was the first social network in the modern sense. andrew weinreich launched it in 1997 with the explicit goal of building a web product
2000 Adobe PageMill — adobe pagemill was the first wysiwyg html editor a normal person could use. it launched in late 1995 for mac, shipped 30,000 copies in the first month
2000 Gopher protocol — the menu-based content protocol from the university of minnesota. you saw a numbered list of items, you typed the number, you got the next list. or a
2000 Microsoft Bookshelf — bookshelf was the english-reference companion to encarta. one CD held the american heritage dictionary, a roget thesaurus, bartlett's familiar quotati
2000 Mygale — one of the very first free web hosting services in france, started in 1995 by a student named Valentin Lacambre. it predated multimania and got eaten
2000 PointCast Network — pointcast was the first product that tried to push the internet at you instead of waiting for you to fetch it. for a year in 1996 it was the future of
2000 Microsoft Liquid Motion — liquid motion was a microsoft authoring tool for web animations that compiled to java applets. it shipped in 1998 on top of technology microsoft picke
2000 Game.com — game.com was tiger electronics' attempt to ship a full cartridge handheld with a touchscreen and a stylus, plus a 14.4k modem in the box. it launched
2000 Marvel CyberComics — marvel started putting comics into shockwave in the summer of 1996 and handed them to america online as part of a promotional deal, so for the first y
2000 FidoNet (the dial-up era) — a worldwide mail network built out of bulletin boards and long-distance phone calls, started by tom jennings in 1984. every night each machine dialed

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