April 15, 2005

Creating an Archive of Failed Dot-Coms

By KATHERINE S. MANGAN

A business professor at the U. of Maryland collects documents from technology companies that didn't make it

When future historians look back on the dot-com era, they may be surprised to come across records of companies like Tagarama.com, which was dreamed up as a way for passing motorists to connect with one another later by plugging license-plate numbers into a matchmaking Web site.

The company, dreamed up by an entrepreneur in Grass Valley, Calif., has disappeared from the

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