(The Internet teems with the relics of this odd branding strategy; even Phair's apparently moribund Web site displays this legacy).
What is Verizon doing with its relics of Internet Past?
The internet is filled with relics of his recent come-up, captured moments when every person watching sees something beyond their expectations, raises their eyebrows, and mouths that single syllable of astonishment, "Damn".
Will Gordon, a 22-year-old Republican who drove down from Atlanta, said he thought that the "Sore Loserman" sign that he printed from the Internet would simply be a relic or a souvenir by now.
The nearly unlimited space on the internet also allows abolishing paper relics like color figure charges, arbitrary limits on the number of figures, and the relegating of information needed for review to a separate supplement.
With YouTube following suit, it doesn't look like long until the player is a relic of an internet past.
It was only several years ago that analysts and even Michael George, now the company's chief executive, were wondering if the Internet had made QVC a relic.
According to the latest data from web application performance management firm New Relic, Microsoft's Internet Explorer 10 on Windows 8 currently has the fastest response time of any browser on Windows, leading the company – and Microsoft – to conclude that IE10 is currently the fastest browser on Windows.
But in the last fifteen years, despite plenty of forward thinking on such matters as interactivity and Internet distribution, Rundgren became a musical relic, putting out records that were preachy, overly clever, or just plain incoherent.
Like the "world wide web" before it, the Internet of things phrase is a relic from the past.
