Fucked Company
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Fucked Company was a website created by Philip J. "Pud" Kaplan as a "dot-com dead pool" that chronicled troubled and failing companies in a unique and abrasive style after the dot com bust in 2000.[1][2] The web site also sold rumor listings to subscribers. The site's name is a parody of Fast Company, a magazine that began covering technology companies during the Internet dot-com boom.
March 31, 2007, Michael Arrington announced that TechCrunch had acquired FuckedCompany.com in an April Fool's day joke press release.[3]
As of August 2007, the site ceased posting new content and later converted its main page to the simple message:[4]
Fuckedcompany is... fucked.
R.I.P. 2000-2007. If you're just now seeing this website for the first time, ask someone who was in the internet business during "round 1" to tell you all about it.
References [edit]
- ^ Festa, Paul (2002-08-26). "Dot-com dead pool brakes for Ford". CNet News. Retrieved 8 August 2012.
- ^ Rowan, David (Sunday, 17 September 2000). "The dead list". The Guardian. Retrieved 8 August 2012.
- ^ http://techcrunch.com/2007/03/31/techcrunch-has-acquired-fuckedcompanycom/ TechCrunch acquires FuckedCompany.com
- ^ "Fucked Company Start Page". Fucked Company. 2007-08-19. Archived from the original on 2007-08-19. Retrieved 8 August 2012.
External links [edit]
- Archive of Fucked Company Official website
- Wolverton, Troy (11 September 2000). "Dot-com doom site up for auction on eBay". CNet News. Retrieved 8 August 2012.
