The ONElist File
I am told that viruses, like Ebola, can flair up for awhile, infecting a
large population for a period of time, and then go dormant, infecting no one
for years on end. There was a strange disease, perhaps a virus, going
around in the late 1990s. It caused people to do weird and unnatural things,
like start Internet companies. I believe this is a mutation of the virus that
afflicted so many in the 1970s, the disco bug. As with disco, one day we
will look back on this era in cringing wonderment. Somebody ought to work
on a vaccine. At least our clothes were better this time.
Despite my best efforts, I somehow caught the malaise in August 1997 and
was compelled to start ONElist. This is my attempt to document that time,
from inception until acquisition by Yahoo in September 2000. It actually
was an incredible adventure, and hopefully this compendium will provide a
glimpse of it, through emails, press releases, and insider commentary. This
is not a "dot bomb" story; far from it. ONElist was more successful than anyone
could have guessed.
I have just started working on The ONElist File. Really. Most of the
internal and other company documents that I have are here and linked by the
Index and Table of Contents.
However, I've only just started writing the story that links all of this together.
Beware the ugly formatting, broken links, misspelled words, smelly aardvarks,
etc. You have been warned.
Apologies to John Walker for the blatant rip-off of
The Autodesk File. His work is much better than this.
Click here to begin
Click here for the Table of Contents
Click here for the Index
Changed/Updated: August 23, 2001
Mark Fletcher / markf (at) wingedpig.com
