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Weirder is what happened to its successor theinquirer.net? It was bought and then erased. Who does that? Was it a copyright thing? Otherwise theregister hit th
by gandalfian 4y ago
Weirder is what happened to its successor theinquirer.net? It was bought and then erased. Who does that? Was it a copyright thing?
Otherwise theregister hit that brief window between professional magazine publishing and every teenager with a phone becoming a tech blogger, the brief window when website publishing was cheap but not yet overcrowded.
- dylan604 4y agoif someone's website was "stealing" traffic from your website, then purchasing the offending site and shutting it down would be business move to eliminate competition.
- adrianwaj 4y agoI think you may be right. TheInquirer's shutdown screen in 2019 mentioned that it started in 2006, when really it started in 2001. So whoever shut it down was either ignorant of how/when it began or they wanted to mislead about the early days. See here: https://web.archive.org/web/20200331234933/https://www.theinquirer.net/ https://web.archive.org/web/20200331234933/https://www.thein... https://i.imgur.com/hqh9aTe.jpg https://i.imgur.com/hqh9aTe.jpg (shutdown screen) https://web.archive.org/web/20010405023100/http://www.theinquirer.net:80/ https://web.archive.org/web/20010405023100/http://www.theinq... (2001)