“While TheStandard.com ceased operations in September 2001, IDG.net is working to archive its content. Please check back on Monday, December 5th 2001.”
A message posted on the website of the late, lamented Industry Standard, showing that former parent company International Data Group is as handy with a calendar as it is with the Web, TheStandard.com, 5 December 2001
“The market for e-books has simply not developed the way we hoped, and given the overall economic climate, we can’t jeopardize our thriving print business by carrying a money-losing operation indefinitely into the future.”
Larry Kirshbaum, chairman of Time Warner Trade Publishing, on closing iPublish.com, a venture that redefined publishing as we know it only by being unprofitable, News.com, 4 December 2001
“We need to give IT an image makeover to make it more attractive to women.”
British cabinet member Patricia Hewitt, on fixing the computer-industry gender gap with a visit to the Gap and Supercuts, Wired News, 1 December 2001
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