Millions of software developers begin mining suck.com for product ideas

With all the Web 2.0 talk and the online office applications, sometimes it's nice to take a look at what we thought the future might hold, 9 years ago.

Like this piece from suck.com on Wordprocessor.com, "HotMail meets Microsoft Word." Interesting how closely this resembles the recent offerings from 37signals, Writely, and Zoho.

The upside? This gives me hope that maybe, decades from now, some of the cockamamie ideas that I've started here will actually be developed by much smarter and capable people than I.

(I tried to do as much "hoax busting" as I could. This appears legitimate, according to the Wayback Machine.)

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