Remember when having a “.com” after your name was basically a golden ticket? The 90s internet boom was like the digital version of the gold rush – everyone thought they’d strike it rich, and most ended up with nothing but a cool website and a whole lot of debt.
We’re talking about companies that seemed MASSIVE at the time but vanished faster than your browser history. Think sock puppets selling pet supplies, million-dollar marketing campaigns for websites that made zero sense, and startup ideas so bizarre they’d make today’s tech entrepreneurs laugh.
These commercials are like a time capsule of internet innocence – before we knew what “viral” really meant, and when having a website was basically magic.
