Failed early internet businesses seem awfully familiar.
> I basically think all the ideas of the 90s that everybody had about how this stuff was going to work, I think they were all right, they were all correct. I think they were just early — @pmarca
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2004 attempt to build Tinder. Short phone calls instead of texting on a mobile app.https://twitter.com/backus/status/1056685682695884800 …
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John Backus @backus"Online SpeedMatching" — 2004 attempt to build Tinder. Review profiles, view pictures, have a brief phone conversation, vote yes or no for followup contact. There are so many awkward early 2000s internet products that, in retrospect, had a smartphone app sized hole. pic.twitter.com/IltUAmL8ktShow this thread2 replies 4 retweets 40 likesShow this thread -
Kozmo (1998 - 2001) – wide-ranging local delivery in under an hour. Seems a lot like Postmates today, minus the mobile apppic.twitter.com/irqfiyaXI7
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my mom used “homerun” for at least a year before it shut down - pre peapod (which now feels like it’s been around forever) and instacart
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wow I didn't realize how long Peapod has been around. My parents used it too. According to their Wikipedia, the company has been around since 1989?? Talk about cockroach businesses... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peapod
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whoaaaa. i remember seeing the trucks in the late 90s/early 2000s, but i can’t imagine how that business model looks in 1989???
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Replying to @clarabellum
According to Wikipedia they were doing online deliveries in 93. Incredible lol
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No clue what they were doing in 89 tho
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