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Posted by Greg on December 1, 2001, at 11:27:50
Excite filed Chapter 11 bankruptcy and officially went out of business as of midnight last night. If you use an Excite e-mail, trash it. Also, if you use the @home cable service it shouldn't be working either as it uses the Excite browser. I contacted @home and they say the service may be down for as long as a week, but that they will credit your bill 2 days for each day of service that you lose.
I'm using AOL, I hate AOL.
Greg
Posted by Greg on December 1, 2001, at 12:41:33
In reply to About Excite, posted by Greg on December 1, 2001, at 11:27:50
It appears that the Excite home page and e-mail addresses are still working for now. But the Excite links to @home are definitely down.
I apologize for the misinformation and promise to do a better job with my homework in the future... :(
Greg
Posted by akc on December 1, 2001, at 16:18:22
In reply to Re: About Excite, posted by Greg on December 1, 2001, at 12:41:33
Yes -- we are grading you ..........NOT!!!!!
Thanks for the info. I think it is a little confusing on what is happening with Excite, so anything you find out is helpful.
akc
> It appears that the Excite home page and e-mail addresses are still working for now. But the Excite links to @home are definitely down.
>
> I apologize for the misinformation and promise to do a better job with my homework in the future... :(
>
> Greg
Posted by Cam W. on December 1, 2001, at 22:41:19
In reply to About Excite, posted by Greg on December 1, 2001, at 11:27:50
Posted by Greg on December 3, 2001, at 9:10:06
In reply to Re: About Excite » Greg, posted by akc on December 1, 2001, at 16:18:22
akc,
Wellll, the info that I'm getting IF (notice the disclaimer) it is correct, is that the Chapter 11 filing and resulant shutdown of the @home site was in essence to force a bidding war over the cable modem technology. AT&T currently leases the technology for 300+ million and the owner of it (unknown) thinks it's worth at least twice that. There are four or five other companies interested in leasing it. Somehow they got a judge to OK the shutdown of the site cutting off service to over 3.7 million customers (I think). I still can't figure out the logic in that one. I've attached a link to a CNN article that will give you some info about it and if I can dig up anymore I'll let you know.
http://money.cnn.com/2001/12/01/technology/wires/excite_re/
Greg
P.S. I'll try to get my grade up by mid-terms... :)
> Yes -- we are grading you ..........NOT!!!!!
>
> Thanks for the info. I think it is a little confusing on what is happening with Excite, so anything you find out is helpful.
>
> akc
>
> > It appears that the Excite home page and e-mail addresses are still working for now. But the Excite links to @home are definitely down.
> >
> > I apologize for the misinformation and promise to do a better job with my homework in the future... :(
> >
> > Greg
Posted by akc on December 3, 2001, at 10:22:16
In reply to Re: About Excite » akc, posted by Greg on December 3, 2001, at 9:10:06
If you figure out the logic question, you will get an automatic A+ and graduate with honors.
Posted by Greg on December 4, 2001, at 9:45:11
In reply to Re: About Excite » Greg, posted by akc on December 3, 2001, at 10:22:16
We got our service back in two days instead of a week. Apparently they figured out that giving 3.7 million people one week's worth of free service wasn't exactly what you would call cost effective...
Even I could figure out the logic in that one.
> If you figure out the logic question, you will get an automatic A+ and graduate with honors.
Posted by akc on December 4, 2001, at 20:21:04
In reply to Re: About Excite » akc, posted by Greg on December 4, 2001, at 9:45:11
A+++++++
Gold Star
Gold Star
Gold StarClap, Clap, Clap.
Posted by akc on December 5, 2001, at 11:03:05
In reply to About Excite, posted by Greg on December 1, 2001, at 11:27:50
For Greg and others:
It appears that Excite still will be shutting down according to this story at USA Today (by the end of February). At least this time you have time to plan.
http://www.usatoday.com/life/cyber/tech/2001/12/05/excite-out-of-business.htm
akc
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