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And Hulu was originally launched as someone's personal homepage. https://web.archive.org/web/19991023065011/https://www.hulu.com/ https://web.archive.org/web/1
by astura 7y ago
And Hulu was originally launched as someone's personal homepage.
https://web.archive.org/web/19991023065011/https://www.hulu.com/ https://web.archive.org/web/19991023065011/https://www.hulu....
Wonder how much they sold the domain for.
- cm2187 7y agoAnd OVH as a scrappy web hosting company stored in a closet [1]... wait, it still is. [1] https://web.archive.org/web/19991127081047/http://ovh.fr/ https://web.archive.org/web/19991127081047/http://ovh.fr/
- ehsankia 7y agoAnd steam.com still refuses to sell the domain even if they haven't had a server for years now: https://web.archive.org/web/20161022104434/http://www.steam.com/ https://web.archive.org/web/20161022104434/http://www.steam....
- Vinnl 7y agoI recently came across https://gail.com/ https://gail.com/
- ehsankia 7y agoAt least, that was a birthday present and it's her first name. The whole gmail typo stuff is hilarious though, that's for sharing.
- overcast 7y agoSo foolish. Not even putting crappy ads on there, yet paying to renew it yearly. What could the logic possibly be? Valve probably wouldn't even entertain it at this point.