New Economy Wistfully Recalled As Tiny Dot-Com Promotional Object Found In Drawer
[A friend of mine, one of those former dot.com millionaires on paper, sent this to me with the Subject: “Read it and weep”. -Thomas]
New Economy Wistfully Recalled As Tiny Dot-Com Promotional Object Found In Drawer
SAN FRANCISCO—The “New Economy”—the Internet-driven business landscape once predicted to make “bricks and mortar” retailers obsolete—was wistfully recalled Monday, when a small dot-com promotional item was discovered in the junk drawer of former dot-commer Eric Noyce.
Noyce, 28, an associate vice-president of business development for Pets.com from August 1998 to December 2000, came across a small gadget emblazoned with “antHead.com” while searching for a corkscrew to open a $3 bottle of wine.
“Holy shit, check this out,” said the minimum-wage-earning Noyce as he examined the slick-looking promotional doohickey. “antHead.com. I think I remember getting this. It was in a goodie bag I got at some launch party. antHead, antHead… What did they do again?”
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