Party like it’s 1999
With all the recent purchases and the Web 2.0 conference, I’ve read a lot about how 2005 is shaping up to be the second coming of 1999.
I was skeptical, but I just had the largest 1999 moment since, well, early 2000. It begins by me admitting that I was reading an article in Wired Magazine, but ends when I tell you they served me a banner ad for Tripod.
Then again, if AOL just paid $25 million for Weblogs, Inc., Lycos’s purchase of Tripod, which at the time was the 8th largest site on the Net, for $58 million was a total bargain.
Can you believe Tripod was the 8th largest site on the Net in 1998? And how did Bo Peabody put out a book last Christmas without me knowing?