Talk:Webland

Stupid spam article, now redirect
Someone hyping their own site claimed:


 * Webland was a term used frequently during the dot com boom of the late 90's to describe what was essentially a fantasy world where teenagers were becoming millionaires by the dozen and intelligent business people were taking advice from new graduates.

OK, a) I don't remember it being frequently used, but if that's the claim OK I forwarded it to the WWW article. If it was a frequently used term, the next bit doesn;t make any sense at all:


 * Webland is copyrighted and trademarked by Marshall Capital corporation for use by their incubator Webland Inc.

OK, first up, words cannot be copyrighted, so that claim is obviously nuts. Secondly, if it was popularly used as a generic term, it can;t be trademarked within the field it was being used generically in. (Marshall Capital Corporation was another spam article created by the same user).

I decided to redirect on the theory that the person was right that it was used frequently to refer to the dot com bubble. If he's wrong then it technically should be deleted. Just thought a long vote on this nonsense would waste everyone's time wading through red tape.

DreamGuy 21:50, 17 September 2005 (UTC)