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In November 2000, Hasbro released Monopoly: The .com Edition. The board game came just in time for Christmas—and the dot-com bubble bursting. By the end of that year, the Nasdaq had lost more than half its peak value.

Not to jinx the current boom in Silicon Valley, but now seemed like a good time to revisit this special edition of Monopoly. “Are you ready to to log on and hyperlink your way to overnight fame and fortune in the exciting world of e-commerce?” asked the instruction booklet (pdf), which detailed all the ways in which The .Com Edition differed from the original. For example…

The money was denominated in millions of dollars, so the smallest bill was seven figures.

Properties on the board were popular websites like Geocities, Ask Jeeves, and iVillage. The equivalent of Boardwalk and Park Place were Yahoo and Excite@Home.

Instead of railroads, there were AT&T, Sprint, MCI Worldcom, and Nokia.

The tokens included a surfboard—you know, for surfing the World Wide Web.

Startups were the surest path to riches.

Banner ads were considered lucrative…

…and so was playing the stock market.

But storage was expensive…

…and connecting to the internet was fraught.

Life on the web could be distracting…

…but web browsers looked pretty much the same as today.

Photos by Gloria Dawson

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It’s safe to say that if you use a pay-phone these days, you went wrong somewhere in life. They still have uses mind you, handy if you need to seek shelter from the rain or if you’re 15, live at home and want to make out with your girlfriend.

There’s a good argument that the phone booths of old be turned into free wi-fi hotspots, how good would that be? But until that happens, artist Benedetto Bufalino and designer Benoit Deseille have an entirely new concept for the humble box of steel – turning it into a fish tank. A touch of nature in the urban jungle as it were.

Their unique art installation has proved wildly popular with locals and tourists during its tour all over Europe. Who knows, you might even be lucky enough to see it replacing that abandoned phone booth on your local street corner one day.

Via Benedetto Bufalino 

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I don’t like sports, but the Bearcats are my new favorite team.

I love how it gets more elaborate each time. These boys are thinking this through.

This comic took me seven months to write and draw, I hope it takes you just as long to read.

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