During the dot-com bubble of the late 1990s a widely-held concept was Internet time: the idea that, with the instantaneous communications enabled by the Web, in the IT world time moved a little quicker.
While time still does seem to move a little more quickly in the IT world, we don’t hear the phrase Internet time much anymore. We also don’t hear about these 10 once high-profile Canadian technology brands anymore that, whether through acquisition, merger or old-fashioned bankruptcy, are no longer with us.
Meet these 10 tech companies of yesterday in this CDN slideshow.
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Author: Jeff Jedras
A veteran technology and business journalist, Jeff Jedras began his career in technology journalism in the late 1990s, covering the booming (and later busting) Ottawa technology sector for Silicon Valley North and the Ottawa Business Journal, as well as everything from municipal politics to real estate.He later covered the technology scene in Vancouver before joining IT World Canada in Toronto in 2005, covering enterprise IT for ComputerWorld Canada. He would go on to cover the channel as an assistant editor with CDN.His writing has appeared in the Vancouver Sun, the Ottawa Citizen and a wide range of industry trade publications.
