Mourning the Web

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Some people want to bury Web advertising. Andreas Ramos figured why stop there?

Ramos, a cheeky Web designer from Palo Alto, Calif., says the Web itself is dead and posted an obituary on his Web site (www. andreas.com): “Web, age 5, of Silicon Valley. Born Aug. 9, 1995, Mountain View, Calif., and died penniless in an empty dot-com loft, abandoned by his former friends. Cause of death: lack of second-round funding.”

He then held a funeral for “Web” in his backyard—an event inspired by a round of excess pizza eating and beer drinking.



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