Cabel Sasser @cabel.panic.com · 22d

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