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[ivy set] #129 - Dot Gone
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SilentlyBroken
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 		[ivy set] #129 - Dot Gone
Signed by Kurt.

The text reads:

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Internet Fever

...gripped Earth during the last few years of the twentieth century. The dot.com bubble, as it came to be called, finally burst on March 11th 2000. The NASDAQ crashed and brought to an abrupt end a period of extraordinary financial irrational exuberance. It wasn't the first time investors had gotten so carried away (who could forget the tulip bulb craze of the 1630s or the South Sea Bubble of 1711?) and it certainly wont be the last...

The dot.com boom spawned thousands of new companies flush with venture capital financing. Many of these companies burned brightly and then slipped quietly into obsolescence for a fraction of their former value. You might even have shopped at some of them before their virtual doors shut forever.

Can you identify these four dot.gone companies?


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Magine Hall

Magine Hall was built by Peter Alten in 64 AC as a second home in the then-new Magine Park. Today the hall is open to the public, but with the exception of its attractive gardens, visitor numbers have been dwindling.

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PostPosted: Thu Apr 06, 2006 2:30 pm
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BrianEnigmaModerator
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 		That last one is obviously
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the pets.com sock puppet
, but I can't see the other logos well enough to make them out.
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SilentlyBroken
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 		Yes, I did distort them rather well Laughing oops.

PostPosted: Thu Apr 06, 2006 3:09 pm
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Magma
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 		The first and second are:

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Urbanfetch.com and Beenz.com


Just number 3 to go.

PostPosted: Thu Apr 06, 2006 4:41 pm
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Rob_Riv
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BriEnigma wrote:
That last one is obviously
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the pets.com sock puppet
, but I can't see the other logos well enough to make them out.


Obviously. Confused
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jojojojo
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Location: Where the puffins fly, and the sheep roam.
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YAY! Sock puppet! Smile


EDIT: Spoiler tagtastic
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Magma
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 		Confirmed:

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Urbanfetch

Beenz

Boo

Pets


PostPosted: Thu Apr 06, 2006 7:48 pm
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vealster
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 		number 4 is a great website

FOR ME TO POOP ON!!!!!!! Very Happy

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mwp
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 		http://www.disobey.com/ghostsites/mef.shtml is a good site

See ya!

Martin

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dbeman
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 		Before I enter my solutions:


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Do I use just the company name, or must it be followed by ".com"?


PostPosted: Fri Aug 25, 2006 11:32 am
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Mindez
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Just the website name. ie. if one of the answers were pizza.com, the answer would be pizza.


I'm hungry o-O;
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hobyrne
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What is the background of this card? It looks like a head on a pike!

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smittenburrito
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 		october 06... woah. i just got into PC and i know the cube was found and everything, i just like puzzles. anyway, on the wikipedia page for pet.com, they do say this:
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After the company folded, Hakan and Associates purchased the rights to the puppet. In 2002 Hakan licensed it to an American automotive loan company called 1-800-BAR-NONE, a mortgage and refinancing firm which took advantage of the Federal Reserve's drop in interest rates in the wake of the dot-com bust (of which Pets.com was a part). The puppet's new slogan: "Everybody deserves a second chance." Advertisements for 1-800-BAR-NONE featuring the puppet are still seen on American television as of August 2007.


it says the phone number is 1800BARNONE (bar none being the title of [s1]#27). probably nothing to do with anything, since its just a refinancing phone number, but maybe intentional.

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