Dot Com to Dot Bomb Blog

In 1992, Prodigy had 1.1 million users and was owned by Sears and IBM. CompuServ had 1 million users and was owned by H&R Block. Genie had 200,000 users and was owned by General Electric. AOL had 150,000 users and Dephi has 100,000. During the internet in 1993, Microsoft owns CompuServ and Spry Inc. owns the Air Series. The Second Internation world Wide Web Conference was happening. In 1995, Bruce Jacobson and Rob Glaser visit Cole and Weber and launched RealAudio. The NFL was on the Web and made "The chat before the spat" and FreeZone was launched and were funded by SPRY and EDS. Freezone had 450,000 registers users during it's peak. In 1996, Spry, Inc was bought by CompuServ and Freezone was bought by Thomson Target Media. StarWave launched s Super Bowl Website, and companies like Yahoo!, Amazon.com, and USWeb came on the web. In 1998, AOL buys CompuServ, InfoSpace goes public, and Burn Rate is Written. During the Dotcom Boom InfoSpace was worth more than Boeing. In 1999, Yahoo acquires Broadcast.com for 5.7 billion dollars, Luminant Worldwide does an eight company simultaneous roll up IPO, and the Internet Bubble is published. In 2000, Dot.com advertisement dominates the Superbowl, Loudeye Technoligies IPO comes in, and Marchfirst and Pets.com goes bust. The Stock Market goes down. In 2001, Exodus Communications declares bankruptcy, DrKoop.com goes bust, FreeZone closes it's virtual doors, Luminant Worldwide declares bankruptcy, and a whole lot of other companies go bust. Martin Tobias was out at LoudEye.