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The Best of the Worst Ideas of the Dot.Com Bubble
May 4, 2006 /
What were they thinking?
The Internet spawned so many weird gizmos and bad business ideas that mocking dot-com duds became something of a sport in the post-bubble era. But some ideas still stand out for pure silliness. These are products and services that attracted lots of publicity — and, in some cases, millions of dollars in funding — before folding.
In the earlier days of the Web, "nobody seemed to care if there was a real business there," said Alan Meckler, chief executive of Jupitermedia Corp. and Internet industry pundit.
By KATHERINE MEYER
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