Why Is An Internet Access Company Getting Into The Flower Busine...

Courtesy Techdirt  Fri, 05/02/2008 - 05:45

If you lived through the first dot com bubble, you probably remember the story of Zapata. This was the former fish-oil company that suddenly decided it wanted to become an internet powerhouse.

It put out an unsolicited bid for Excite.com and later announced that it was willing to pay millions for totally random web-based startups to build into its own Zap.com portal.

It was a laughingstock of the dot com bubble -- highlighting a non-internet company's rather hamfisted attempt to...

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