Still Webby After All These Years
June 10th, 2009
So I’m cleaning off my bookshelf last night trying to decide which business books to jettison and which ones to keep.
I came across my copy of Jaclyn Easton’s StrikingItRich.com and wondered: Of the “23 incredibly successful Web sites you’ve probably never heard of,” how many of them are still around? After all, the book was published back in the paleozoic era of the Web (that would be 1999).
Here’s how it breaks down:
Clearly Alive: Ask the Builder, Cassette House, Coastal Tool and Supply, Discount Games, FragranceNet, Gamesville, Horsenet, iPrint, The Knot, Long Island Hot Tubs, Motorcycle Online, The Mountain Zone, Reel.com, Ridout Plastics, Tradeshop, U.S. Wings.
Evidently Dead: Expert Market, International Golf Outlet, Ken Crane’s Laserdiscs, Korea Link, Practical Online Weight Loss Clinic, Product Partners.
Evidently Bought Out: Weirton Steel.
Not too bad: 17 out of 23 still clickin’ a decade later. Somewhat ironically, though, it looks like the StrikingItRich.com URL wasn’t locked down by either the author or the publisher.