Pets.com was a dot-com company launched in 1998 that sold pet supplies online, becoming infamous for its sock puppet mascot that sang "If You Leave…
Super Bowl XXXIV in January 2000 featured 14-19 dot-com companies spending an average of $2.2 million per 30-second commercial, representing 20% of all advertising time…
The dot-com bubble burst began on March 10, 2000, when the NASDAQ Composite peaked at 5,048 points before falling 78% by October 2002, wiping out…
Kozmo.com was an on-demand delivery service launched in 1998 that promised free one-hour delivery of virtually anything to urban customers, from single candy bars to…
Flooz.com and Beenz.com were competing alternative currency systems launched in the late 1990s that allowed users to earn and spend digital tokens for online purchases….
HomeGrocer.com was a grocery delivery service that operated in multiple West Coast cities from 1997 to 2001, competing directly with Webvan by building automated warehouses…
Excite@Home was a merger between web portal Excite and cable internet service @Home that aimed to combine content and high-speed internet access, creating an integrated…
TheGlobe.com was a social networking and web hosting service that went public in November 1998 with the largest first-day stock price gain in NASDAQ history,…