Thursday, October 04, 2007

The End of Free is free again

Actually, The End of Free was always free, but the original domain TheEndofFree.com has been picked up by a domain squatter so I moved it to theendoffree.blogspot.com for archival purposes. For the better part of 4 years, this blog chronicled the move to paid services by early web companies. Anil Dash and I were just talking about when Evan Williams started this blog that it was one of the first inside industry blogs on the planet. I thought there might be some fun things to see in the history of the site. It turns out that there are like this link to MySpace back when it was an online storage site. The archives start way back in March 2001 and ran through April 2005 with a lot of links to 404'd pages (guess the web isn't as permanent as it could be). I don't know if this will be enough to get the contributors posting again but in the meanwhile enjoy the past.