HOLY SHIT! THE DUMP LIVES ON! YOUR IMMEDIATE ATTENTION IS REQUIRED!
I am ecstatic, astonished, and frightened to tell you that THE DUMP, the almost ten-year-old guestbook of my past websites, still survives in its entirety--on a Lycos site now owned by Daum Communications of South Korea!
As soon as you read this, you must post an entry in said guestbook.
View My Guestbook
Sign My Guestbook
The history offered by this over 500-page document is astounding. Regis website rivalries, the relationship with the utterly brilliant (and doomed) Julie K, the transition to college, much learning and unlearning, and the many strange personalities that walked and shaped the path alongside many of us. It's all there, lots of it unsavory, all of it sadly relevant.
THE CORPORATE HISTORY OF THE DUMP, IF I REMEMBER CORRECTLY: In 1997, THE DUMP was launched on lpage, a free guestbook service, and linked to the inexplicably popular rb website IMAGINARY SANITATION. Somehow lpage became a part of Lycos/HTMLGear, which was, at the turn of the century, a massively successful search engine valued at $12B. Just before the boom busted, Lycos was sold to Spain's Terra for $5.2B. After the bust, it was sold to South Korea's Daum for $105m. Lycos struggles on--they offer 3GB of email storage!--and THE DUMP struggles with it.
As soon as you read this, you must post an entry in said guestbook.
View My Guestbook
Sign My Guestbook
The history offered by this over 500-page document is astounding. Regis website rivalries, the relationship with the utterly brilliant (and doomed) Julie K, the transition to college, much learning and unlearning, and the many strange personalities that walked and shaped the path alongside many of us. It's all there, lots of it unsavory, all of it sadly relevant.
THE CORPORATE HISTORY OF THE DUMP, IF I REMEMBER CORRECTLY: In 1997, THE DUMP was launched on lpage, a free guestbook service, and linked to the inexplicably popular rb website IMAGINARY SANITATION. Somehow lpage became a part of Lycos/HTMLGear, which was, at the turn of the century, a massively successful search engine valued at $12B. Just before the boom busted, Lycos was sold to Spain's Terra for $5.2B. After the bust, it was sold to South Korea's Daum for $105m. Lycos struggles on--they offer 3GB of email storage!--and THE DUMP struggles with it.
posted by Rob at 12:21 PM
3 Comments:
I forgot to tell you that I saw Julie K last weekend, at Best Buy in Yonkers, accompanied by her Sister K.K. and Brian W. I did sort of half heartedly say Hey Brian! but he didn't hear me as he walked out of the DVD section and towards the door.
Don't worry, Feds. I'm sure Brian couldn't hear you over the enormous part in his hair.
ROFLMAO!!!11
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