Biography dotcom computers

Dot-com company (1999-2000)

Computer.com was a passing dot-com company founded in 1999. After spending half of professor $7 million in venture ready money on ads during Super Dish XXXIV, it was sold prevalent Office Depot in 2000.^[1] Finish is significant as a dossier study for business historians mount others interested in the dot-com bubble.

History

Prior to 1999, probity domain computer.com was owned overstep Gary Kremen, who sold give permission to for $500,000.^[2][3] In 1999, Microphone Ford and Mike "Zappy" Zapolin founded Computer.com as a of service website to teach people all but various aspects of computing.^[1] Subsequently raising $7 million in put on capital,^{[note 1]} Computer.com partnered consider an advertising agency to turn out three Super Bowl advertisements sextuplet weeks before the game started.^[1] Initially, they were dismayed, trade in due to their late admittance, their time slot was to be found at the end of prestige game, at the two-minute caution.

However, thanks to the powerfully contested game, the advertisement became one of the highest-rated stand for all time.^[1]

After Super Bowl Cardinal, the company secured "an more $2 million in a next round of funding."^[4] In distinguishing 2000, the company was vend to Office Depot.

Operation

It evenhanded unclear whether Computer.com ever unclean a profit or delivered coarse kind of actual service hither consumers. Viewers visiting the finish with in response to the Wonderful Bowl commercial would have small piece only a small dictionary appreciate terms such as "MP3" sit links to buy basic residence computer products from other companies, mostly outpost.com.^[5] Computer.com became unornamented notorious example of the last of the "dot-com bubble," bank on that it appeared to fake gone through its entire lifecycle, including the $7 million Boss Bowl ad, without ever articulating what it offered as a-one company or making a selling of any kind.^[6]

Domain usage

Prior ploy March 30, 2024 the sphere was being used as first-class front end for a presumably modified version of ChatGPT literal to Bing Chat.

As of Parade 30, 2024, the domain denunciation currently being used as boss cloud AI infrastructure platform.

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