What an awful term, mothballed. By definition, it means that something is just being put away for a short while. But in reality, it usually means something is dead.
Well, I received a similar email that Valleywag references. It looks like last week’s sale of Wired News was the final straw.
Jeff Veen wrote a nice look back at HotWired, which has met a pretty slow death under Lycos’ watch. And, Jeff also wrote a goodbye to Webmonkey two years ago, the first time it died.
Webmonkey was a fun site to learn from and a great place to write for. I’ll miss it from both perspectives.
[…] For those who don’t know the backstory, Webmonkey was mothballed almost two years ago. Before that, it was revived from a previous death. This time looks for real because Wired owns the site and did some work to re-architect it. […]