Quote:F***edCompany, the once-feared online message board where frustrated Internet workers went to lash out at their bosses during the dot-com collapse, is for sale.
The site, which contains profanity in the name, went on sale a week ago, said James Martin, the man in charge of selling the site. Martin, who operates a media merger and acquisition company, declined to say how much he's asking for the site or how much interest he's received...
Following the collapse of the so-called Internet revolution in 2001, legions of disgruntled technology workers took to the Web site to mock their employers. In recent years, as the tech sector has bounced back, F***edCompany's influence has fallen off sharply...
full article:
http://news.com.com/2061-10802_3-6172279.html?part=rss&tag=2547-1_3-0-20&subj=news
Psst...Jezebel...the sale to TechCrunch was an April Fool's joke. FC is for sale though so the first post in this thread is not an April Fool's joke.
Pud posted an April Fool's message on his blog today
Quote:This past weekend I took part in what was supposed to be a simple April Fools gag. But through a series of coincidental circumstances and odd timing, it came together into what some are calling the best tech April fools joke of 2007.
I don't know if it was the best, but it certainly had to be the most elaborate.
Here's the story...
full post:
http://www.pud.com/2007/04/april-fools.html
I'll admit I also thought the sale to TechCrunch was real :-[
Update: Pud's Fucked really is fucked!
From FC's front page:
Quote:F.uckedcompany is temporarily f.ucked
The site hasn't been updated since June.
[quote author=mandy link=topic=8981.msg66084#msg66084 date=1194262353]
Update: Pud's boinked really is boinked!
From FC's front page:
Quote:F.uckedcompany is temporarily f.ucked
The site hasn't been updated since June.
[/quote]
(and I'm sure many people who were there during the dot com crash have the same sentiment)