Favorite relic from defunct company or product, dot-com or other:

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

I've got a mug from Webvan, the online grocery delivery company. Kind of a funky inverted cone shape.

I've also got one from "Nuromax", a drug called doxacurium. Sorry if any of you work for the company that produced Nuromax (Burroughs-Wellcome?), but I remember it as a drug that was looking for a use. One that it never really found. I don't know if anyone is still making it, I know that I haven't seen a vial of it in about a decade.

The Nuromax mug is cool though, it's got a logo of a male torso, showing the muscles and beating heart under the skin, with an EKG trace along the bottom, presumably symbolizing the lack of effects of Nuromax on the cardiovascular system. I don't use the drug, but I still use that mug a lot.

What are your favorite relics?

[theivoryqueen]

1. Hands down, Yard Darts

those were like mini javelins with really good balance.

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

2. That's cool, but I'm really looking for relics SYMBOLIZING, or containing

iconography of the defunct company or product, rather than the product itself...

[Philostopher]

3. Before WOXY went off the air ...

We bought a wall clock with the station logo. The station's dead, probably for good, but there will be plenty who remember it -- swag is just one way of remembering... about the only way, apparently. *sigh*

[Sticky]

4. I collect antiques

so I have plenty of useless relics lying around. One of my favs is a 3D Kodak poster from 1891. Just looking at it takes you back to an era when photography was the new art form.

[Loonman]

5. Lotus software coffee mugs

Which mysteriously made their way to my kitchen.

[Joe_VB]

6. Global Crossing

A cap, lapel pin, and post-it note pad. I received all of this when I hired on at Global Crossing. Worst career move of my entire life.
They went BK 10 months later.

[GregW]

13. I worked for a dotcom in that era ...

Frontier Global Crossing was a big vendor/partner for us. We used your Toyama datacenter in Sunnyvale.

[Champion Jack]

7. I have an Enron hand squeezer thing

it's made out of skinned foam in the shape of a small cube.
You're supposed to squeeze it to exercise your hand.
I got it at N.A.B. in Vegas a few years ago along with all the other swag. I can't find it now (just moved) but I think it has something to do with high speed cable...

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

9. ENRON! Nice! It should drop money from the retirement funds of

the Enron worker out of it when you squeeze.

[Richardo]

10. I have a t-shirt (never worn!) from the opening day at "Enron Field"

...in Houston. How proud we were that day :eyes:

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

12. You should be able to silk screen that into something useful or cute,

perhaps?

[TrogL]

8. Digital coffee mug

"Thanks a billion for helping us obtain $1 billion in Alpha AX sales in its first year".

Compaq bought them out a year later.

[Richardo]

11. I have lots of stuff from railroads I've worked for that no longer exist..

...Denver & Rio Grande Western and Southern Pacific. Model locomotives, shirts, coffee cups, beer mugs, mouse pads, ashtrays.

[KinkyDem]

14. I own more swag from more "Fucked Companies" ...

than I care to think about.

THe one I still have and use on a regualr basis is a black army field jacket with our old logo on it. I have yet to attach the RAM chips to the epolettes but I'll do it some day.

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

16. RAM chips. Epaulettes. (shudders)

:scared:

[pagerbear]

15. Isaac Mizrahi mug

I temped for his company for a coupla months in '97 and somehow the mug fell into my bag one day.

[FarmerOak]

17. I have coasters with the trial name for Viagra.

Mycoxaflopin

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

18. I guess that name went on the scrap heap of history, along with

"Hardonix" and "Boneril".