Died in 2001

8 projects

Infoseek One of the first big web search engines, Netscape's default for a year, bought by Disney and buried inside Go.com 1995–2001 Search Engines & Directories eToys.com Worth more than Toys R Us, for about a year 1997–2001 E-commerce & Retail Sega Dreamcast The console that killed its own company 1998–2001 Consoles & Handhelds Kozmo.com A video in an hour, free, by bicycle 1998–2001 E-commerce & Retail Napster Every song in the world, free, right now 1999–2001 File Sharing Webvan Right idea, twenty years early, at a billion dollars a mistake 1999–2001 E-commerce & Retail Microsoft Comic Chat The IRC client that drew your conversation as a comic strip, shipped with Internet Explorer 3 in 1996 and open-sourced thirty years later 1996–2001 Messengers Prodigy The IBM and Sears online service with the blue screens and the ads at the bottom, two million subscribers before the web, sold and sold again 1988–2001 Online Services