----- GHOST SITES #43 [January 29, 2000] ----- by Steve Baldwin (steve_baldwin@hotmail.com) Thanks to every one of you who continues to send me tips (via the Ghost-O-Meter) about dead and defunct Web sites. Ghost Sites' skeleton crew of downsized site researchers continue to file your contributions, and our February issue will feature the best of your cyber-necrotic choices. This issue, we're going to let you sample our growing collection of dead e-commerce sites that passed into oblivion in the year 2000 - we call it "The E-Failure Museum" - a collection of screen capture files documenting the home pages of 120 commercial Web sites. More than 100 of these ventures expired in the latter half of 2000, victims to adverse financial conditions. Some still struggle on, but many of these failed sites have already disappeared from public view. This collection is a modest attempt to memorialize their passing. The 136 JPEG screen shots included in this collection were recorded between October of 1996 and December of 2000. Viewing them is not for the faint of heart - the files are listed in alphabetical order: http://www.disobey.com/ghostsites/ss/24_7_com.jpg http://www.disobey.com/ghostsites/ss/360hiphop.jpg http://www.disobey.com/ghostsites/ss/affinia.jpg http://www.disobey.com/ghostsites/ss/aka.jpg http://www.disobey.com/ghostsites/ss/angry_man.jpg http://www.disobey.com/ghostsites/ss/apb_news.jpg http://www.disobey.com/ghostsites/ss/auctions1.jpg http://www.disobey.com/ghostsites/ss/baby_gear.jpg http://www.disobey.com/ghostsites/ss/bargain_clothing.jpg http://www.disobey.com/ghostsites/ss/bike.jpg http://www.disobey.com/ghostsites/ss/bbq_2.jpg http://www.disobey.com/ghostsites/ss/big_words.jpg http://www.disobey.com/ghostsites/ss/black_families.jpg http://www.disobey.com/ghostsites/ss/blaze.jpg http://www.disobey.com/ghostsites/ss/boo.jpg http://www.disobey.com/ghostsites/ss/car_order.jpg http://www.disobey.com/ghostsites/ss/carpet_com.jpg http://www.disobey.com/ghostsites/ss/channel_space.jpg http://www.disobey.com/ghostsites/ss/click_mango.jpg http://www.disobey.com/ghostsites/ss/couch.jpg http://www.disobey.com/ghostsites/ss/cyber_park.jpg http://www.disobey.com/ghostsites/ss/cyborganic_1.jpg http://www.disobey.com/ghostsites/ss/cyborganic_2.jpg http://www.disobey.com/ghostsites/ss/deepcanyon.jpg http://www.disobey.com/ghostsites/ss/den.jpg http://www.disobey.com/ghostsites/ss/dream_shop.jpg http://www.disobey.com/ghostsites/ss/ebody.jpg http://www.disobey.com/ghostsites/ss/elingo.jpg http://www.disobey.com/ghostsites/ss/eseated_com.jpg http://www.disobey.com/ghostsites/ss/esociety.jpg http://www.disobey.com/ghostsites/ss/eve_com.jpg http://www.disobey.com/ghostsites/ss/ezcd.jpg http://www.disobey.com/ghostsites/ss/freeride.jpg http://www.disobey.com/ghostsites/ss/furniture.jpg http://www.disobey.com/ghostsites/ss/garden_com.jpg http://www.disobey.com/ghostsites/ss/gazelle_com.jpg http://www.disobey.com/ghostsites/ss/gazoontite_com.jpg http://www.disobey.com/ghostsites/ss/gift_emporia.jpg http://www.disobey.com/ghostsites/ss/gear.jpg http://www.disobey.com/ghostsites/ss/great_coffee.jpg http://www.disobey.com/ghostsites/ss/health_shop.jpg http://www.disobey.com/ghostsites/ss/heavens_gate.jpg http://www.disobey.com/ghostsites/ss/hollywood_tickets.jpg http://www.disobey.com/ghostsites/ss/home_warehouse_com.jpg http://www.disobey.com/ghostsites/ss/hotoffice.jpg http://www.disobey.com/ghostsites/ss/hsupply.jpg http://www.disobey.com/ghostsites/ss/ibelieve.jpg http://www.disobey.com/ghostsites/ss/icanbuy.jpg http://www.disobey.com/ghostsites/ss/icast.jpg http://www.disobey.com/ghostsites/ss/ichoose.jpg http://www.disobey.com/ghostsites/ss/iguide.jpg http://www.disobey.com/ghostsites/ss/iguide2.jpg http://www.disobey.com/ghostsites/ss/industrial_vortex.jpg http://www.disobey.com/ghostsites/ss/internet_filezone.jpg http://www.disobey.com/ghostsites/ss/is_that_a_fact.jpg http://www.disobey.com/ghostsites/ss/iturf_comp_intro.jpg http://www.disobey.com/ghostsites/ss/iturf.jpg http://www.disobey.com/ghostsites/ss/ivendor.jpg http://www.disobey.com/ghostsites/ss/kablink.jpg http://www.disobey.com/ghostsites/ss/kibu_com.jpg http://www.disobey.com/ghostsites/ss/life_jacket.jpg http://www.disobey.com/ghostsites/ss/living_com.jpg http://www.disobey.com/ghostsites/ss/mambo.jpg http://www.disobey.com/ghostsites/ss/miadora.jpg http://www.disobey.com/ghostsites/ss/mortgage.jpg http://www.disobey.com/ghostsites/ss/mothernature.jpg http://www.disobey.com/ghostsites/ss/mungo_park.jpg http://www.disobey.com/ghostsites/ss/my_talk.jpg http://www.disobey.com/ghostsites/ss/netizen_tv.jpg http://www.disobey.com/ghostsites/ss/number_nine.jpg http://www.disobey.com/ghostsites/ss/omni_magazine.jpg http://www.disobey.com/ghostsites/ss/oneprice_cds.jpg http://www.disobey.com/ghostsites/ss/pandesic.jpg http://www.disobey.com/ghostsites/ss/pathfinder.jpg http://www.disobey.com/ghostsites/ss/pathfinder_2.jpg http://www.disobey.com/ghostsites/ss/petstore_com.jpg http://www.disobey.com/ghostsites/ss/phys.jpg http://www.disobey.com/ghostsites/ss/pixelon.jpg http://www.disobey.com/ghostsites/ss/planetID.jpg http://www.disobey.com/ghostsites/ss/politically_black.jpg http://www.disobey.com/ghostsites/ss/powerdime.jpg http://www.disobey.com/ghostsites/ss/pseudo_home.jpg http://www.disobey.com/ghostsites/ss/pseudo_biztech.jpg http://www.disobey.com/ghostsites/ss/pseudo_chat.jpg http://www.disobey.com/ghostsites/ss/puertabella_com.jpg http://www.disobey.com/ghostsites/ss/pupule_com.jpg http://www.disobey.com/ghostsites/ss/push_concepts.jpg http://www.disobey.com/ghostsites/ss/red_connect.jpg http://www.disobey.com/ghostsites/ss/red_gorilla.jpg http://www.disobey.com/ghostsites/ss/red_rocket.jpg http://www.disobey.com/ghostsites/ss/riffage.jpg http://www.disobey.com/ghostsites/ss/savi_shopper.jpg http://www.disobey.com/ghostsites/ss/shopaudiovideo.jpg http://www.disobey.com/ghostsites/ss/six_degrees.jpg http://www.disobey.com/ghostsites/ss/snaki.jpg http://www.disobey.com/ghostsites/ss/sock_puppet.jpg http://www.disobey.com/ghostsites/ss/sock_puppet2.jpg http://www.disobey.com/ghostsites/ss/soldout_com.jpg http://www.disobey.com/ghostsites/ss/soulpurpose.jpg http://www.disobey.com/ghostsites/ss/stim.jpg http://www.disobey.com/ghostsites/ss/stockback.jpg http://www.disobey.com/ghostsites/ss/stock_power.jpg http://www.disobey.com/ghostsites/ss/streamline.jpg http://www.disobey.com/ghostsites/ss/strobe.jpg http://www.disobey.com/ghostsites/ss/subrights.jpg http://www.disobey.com/ghostsites/ss/swoon.jpg http://www.disobey.com/ghostsites/ss/the_man.jpg http://www.disobey.com/ghostsites/ss/the_convergence.jpg http://www.disobey.com/ghostsites/ss/the_site.jpg http://www.disobey.com/ghostsites/ss/the_spot.jpg http://www.disobey.com/ghostsites/ss/thing_world.jpg http://www.disobey.com/ghostsites/ss/thirsty.jpg http://www.disobey.com/ghostsites/ss/timedance.jpg http://www.disobey.com/ghostsites/ss/total_new_york.jpg http://www.disobey.com/ghostsites/ss/total_new_york_2.jpg http://www.disobey.com/ghostsites/ss/trade_interiors.jpg http://www.disobey.com/ghostsites/ss/tshirt_guy.jpg http://www.disobey.com/ghostsites/ss/tutornet.jpg http://www.disobey.com/ghostsites/ss/ubo.jpg http://www.disobey.com/ghostsites/ss/urban_fetch_farewell_sale.jpg http://www.disobey.com/ghostsites/ss/urbandesign.jpg http://www.disobey.com/ghostsites/ss/value_america.jpg http://www.disobey.com/ghostsites/ss/violet.jpg http://www.disobey.com/ghostsites/ss/volume2.jpg http://www.disobey.com/ghostsites/ss/vroom_com.jpg http://www.disobey.com/ghostsites/ss/whiplash.jpg http://www.disobey.com/ghostsites/ss/womans_consumer_com.jpg http://www.disobey.com/ghostsites/ss/xenote.jpg http://www.disobey.com/ghostsites/ss/ypn_1.jpg http://www.disobey.com/ghostsites/ss/ypn_2.jpg http://www.disobey.com/ghostsites/ss/zatso_net.jpg http://www.disobey.com/ghostsites/ss/zebra_mart.jpg http://www.disobey.com/ghostsites/ss/ziplink.jpg http://www.disobey.com/ghostsites/ss/zoomsd_2.jpg ------------------------------------------------------------------------ The website edition includes images, a nice design, and all the latest news about Ghost Sites. 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