The Ghost of eCommerce Past - Kozmo.com
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Written By Reprise Media | July 5, 2005 | Share This
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Kozmo.com was an urban delivery service that went belly-up during the dot com bust. Steve Baldwin of GhostSites discovered some forgotten treasures on the servers of the ad agency that managed Kozmo’s campaigns.
An old urinal ad, a bus banner, and a messenger uniform are among the finds at Kozmo.com: Surreal Echoes of the 1990’s.
A sidebar points to the Museum of E-Failure, an image gallery containing over 1200 screenshots from Web properties that went offline between 1998 and 2004. Wherever possible, web elegies are included that provide further details (a lot of them juicy) on how and why the closing took place.
Continuing on the Kozmo tip, here’s an old Computerworld interview with company CTO Chris Siragusa that talks about What It’s Like to Work in IT at Kozmo.com.
Best quote:
“One of my programmers and I were talking about what we would do after Kozmo, and neither of us could think of a single job we’d want to do after this. We have such a great time here that we said we’d just keep working here.”
OK, so maybe that was the most depressing quote, but don’t cry for him Argentina. Siragusa is up to his old tricks as the founder of MaxDelivery.com, a more scaled back version of the original Kozmo universe that offers “only basic items that people often forget to buy.” Sounds like a good idea, guys.
Corante.com has more.
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