In retrospect, as at many other dot-coms, the campaign's self-congratulatory buzz and hype masked plenty of serious problems with the business plan.
The idea, which seemed realistic at the time, was to turn Staples.com into a Wall Street darling like so many other dot-com stocks had become.
But a promising business plan alone, she said, will not help save most of these sites from the same fate that befell many other dot-coms.
A European auction Web site similar to eBay, QXL.com P.L.C., reported better-than-expected results in its fourth quarter, somewhat stemming the losses that have plagued it and many other dot-coms.
Who and what stays put in Chugwater, out of stubbornness or inertia, is the dynamic that rules everything in a place that, like so many other dots on the map, might have faded to black but somehow did not.
Like so many other dot-coms, Pseudo was not fast enough on its feet and was swallowed up by the April Nasdaq dive that sparked investor aversion to advertising-driven Web startups.
In the early 1950s, Gurney's was a 20-unit hotel, not unlike many others dotting the South Fork of Long Island.
A confident, quietly subversive R&B record equal parts sound and silence, the 10 tracks of obsession suggest futuristic Massive Attack pared to the bone, with many measures of echoed space and many others dotted with beats, bleeps and burps.
