Whatever Happened To . . . ?

If you're an "old-school" web designer like me, you're likely to remember when the Web had a handful of popular search engines. It was hard to imagine that any one of them would dominate the market. Why, I can recall when Google was just an infant, taking on the big boys like excite.com. By the way, whatever happened to the founders of excite.com?

An article on bbc.com provides an interesting glimpse into the wild and wacky dotcom "boom and bust" years by looking at the fortunes (and misfortunes) of Joe Kraus, one of the inventors of the excite.com search engine. It is a fascinating glimpse into how the "Web was won" . . . check it out!