#Dot Com Bust

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funbug
Trends 2000–2001

Funbug.com

A turn-of-the-millennium site where you played games for a shot at cash, with a $10,000 drawing every Wednesday afternoon and winnings that landed on a funCard MasterCard. It was live by early 2000, folded in the dot-com bust of 2001, and is remembered now mostly as the $3.9 million failure Nick Woodman had before he built GoPro.

Video thumbnail — If You Leave Me Now (Pets.com Super Bowl Commercial, HQ)
Trends 1998–2000

Pets.com Sock Puppet

The floppy-eared sock puppet with the wristwatch collar became more famous than the store he was selling — a Macy's parade balloon and a Super Bowl ad for a company that lasted nine months past its IPO. He remains the face of the entire dot-com bust.