All that's left are the memories.
Thousands of web pages were written on the dotcomguy phenomenon. At least I think that thousands of pages were written. Few traces of them seem to be left. I admit that I lost interest in the phenomenon sometime into the first month of the year-long ordeal (it started in January of 2000), but some of the articles about the "experiment" and its corporate sponsors were fun to read and thought provoking. Again, very little seems to be left today. A Google search tell us that as of the present about 4300 pages at least mention him. I don't think I'll take the time to find out just how many of these were actually were about him, as opposed to simply mentioning him. My guess is that lots more was available a year ago, but that nobody seems too sorry to forget the entire episode.
The official site (apparently there really is such a thing) gives us nothing more than an e-mail address for inviting our hero to give speeches. Another site bills itself as a fan club site. It still has logs of chats conducted with the guy himself, and if anyone is truly bored he or she might succeed in actually devoting five minutes to reading some random questions asked of the guy before losing interest.
Some of the history is still there. CNN has a page that reports the ending of dotcomguy's year. Wired News also reported the news but couldn't resist poking fun along the way. One still available page gives a middle of the year report without being overly sarcastic. At about the same time Salon.com published an article claiming that half a year was enough punishment already. It is fascinating, however, that an experiment that apparently received 10,000,000 hits on its first day was almost totally neglected before it was formally concluded.
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