"There will come a day, far in the future, when the heady euphoria of the Web Bubble will have faded into legend and legacy code."

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Geez, I miss the Suck.com site, I've been reflecting on this with a few people I've caught up with recently. I don't want to sound like someone who talks about Madchester Acid House Dance Parties in 1987 like the techno scene went downhill from there, but Joey Anuff, Marie, and Carl Steadman. (ironically folklore of site being incubated at hotwired office written at night.. similar to the reddit hostages - aaron - today at conde nast-wired)

I still remember reading posts like this when I was at DDB in new media development in 1996 and I had the one email account in the department. Now people want disposable. (as suck ended up being :)

Random suck.com selection : "There will come a day, far in the future, when the heady euphoria of the Web Bubble will have faded into legend and legacy code. In this future, only the very young and the very old will believe what's said in the ancient "case studies" — that once upon a time, everything was free. The decline and fall of the New Economy will be some distant, archeological event, and the gleaming towers of ecommerce it birthed will become myth, like Atlantis or France."

RU: Any influence from ancient sites like Suck?

ND: Um, well, the embarrassing thing is I think I was in grade school when that was coming out. That’s my biggest problem. I have to go back and read all the people who did this better back when there was more going on. I’m still reading stuff like “Fucked Company,” the little book by Phillip Kaplan.