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Ghost Sites of the Web: Where Dead Sites Live On... Where Web Disasters Are Still Fresh |
 | | So this is no crazy/flaky dotcom, but it does seem to be an extremely rusty/dusty dot-org. |
 | | WebVan.com was a truly notorious dotcom that overestimated demand for its instant grocery delivery service, overspent on infrastructure, and overpaid its CEO, George Shaheen, who walked away from WebVan's 2001 bankruptcy with an agreement to pay him $375,000 for the rest of his life. |
 | | We can only imagine that those investors would wish the same kind of violence to be visited against those who engineered WebVan's spectacular fall from dotcom superstar to feckless bum. |
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