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You only paid if you wanted to contact people. ITV bought it and, even at the time it was obvious, had no idea what to do with it. It seemed like a lot of tho
by mprev 7y ago
You only paid if you wanted to contact people.
ITV bought it and, even at the time it was obvious, had no idea what to do with it.
It seemed like a lot of those early 2000s British tech businesses, like Jungle.com, where there could’ve been something really huge but the lack of investment culture meant they got outpaced by better funded rivals from overseas.
- rusk 7y agoRemember that one for “uniformed” people (soldiers, police, nurses etc.) or those that are interested in them? Now that was a chin scratcher
- goatinaboat 7y agoThat one actually was a dating site wasn’t it? Makes sense I guess, if you wanted a partner who also worked shifts.
- rusk 7y agoOr if you wanted a database of people who wear uniforms ...
- goatinaboat 7y agoIndeed. It’s obvious now, of course, but all these companies start from the database they want to sell and work backwards from there to build a product to gather it.
- rusk 7y agoI think knowing what we know now about various rogue states it’s fair to imagine this may have been something yet more insidious ... if you had called it at the time you would have been handed a tinfoil hat!
- ansible 7y agoThe early 2000s Brit tech scene seemed like such an interesting place, but that was based mostly on what I was reading from Need to Know (ntk.net).