let's play some monopoly: the dot com edition
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ᴅᴏᴡɴ10⸻ · 22d
Incredible just how many of these names and brands are gone
Tío Diego 🗯‼️ · 22d
Seeing the Lycos logo like a ghost of the past.
Peter Butler · 22d
Yahoo and Excite@Home as Boardwalk and Park Place lol In 1999 (my last year there), Excite@Home's goal was "50% reach" -- they thought half the people in the world would use Excite 🥴
Mark LaCroix 💾 · 22d
About dot com memories: I wrote things for that around 2002(?) My favorite was an illustrated guide to make a double-gatefold CD sleeve from a piece of 8.5x11" paper, which I invented because I was putting short films on VideoCD-Rs but couldn't afford jewel cases. I found it in my digital archive:
Steve "Spike" Spiker · 22d
Lol Sun
Jim Perrin · 22d
I'm not normally a board game person, but holy damn. now I have to find this and acquire a copy.....
Nathan Hartman · 22d
You be the battleship. I'll play as the dog.
Andy Baio · 22d
it probably won't surprise you that I own a shrinkwrapped copy
Marc Deschamps · 22d
Who could forget the iconic early Internet sound of “email just in?”
Eric Chu · 22d
I guess the big company I work at didn't pay up to be put on this set. HAHA.
jell · 22d
*draws the Oracle logo tucked into the jail bars*
Transient Sun · 22d
i don't understand the effect of the linux card, does that raise the rent on other players or on the holder of the card
Phenry Ewing · 22d
oh no… I landed on Bubble Pop and the bank is foreclosing on Linux
Phil Salvador · 22d
Excite@Home is Park Place!!! Jesus
anna · 22d
realaudio error in your favor
Archagon · 22d
I have this! Such a great artifact of the dot com boom.
John Harris · 22d
1. Let's play spot the defunct company 2. All of this is pre-Google 3. Oh frog, Yahoo is Boardwalk