5 Great Websites Destroyed By The Man

Over the last 15 years of Internet fun we've seen some great sites born, raped, pillaged, and souls sold. Some of our favorite websites were eventually turned into money-grabbing fluff. Who does it? The man! Here are 5 great websites completely destroyed by the man.

5. Classmates.com - Once a great tool for stalking ex-girlfriends or finding out who got fat from high school. Why? Because it was free. Now they'd like you to pay $15 a month to get messages from the slow kid you were nice to on the bus.

4. Hotmail.com - Long ago it was hot, just like its name. Everyone had an account at one time or another. Then came the spam... from hotmail itself. Bill Gates took away the goodness and made it the Edsel of free email.

3. Geocities.com - A great premise and pooped out many a lame (yet entertaining) website before Yahoo bought it and stamped their seal of crapproval on it. Who didn't have a geocities site at one time. Question is, when is the last time you look, it's probably still there.

2. Cnet.com - Free software for you until the cows come home. How do you managed to keep all the freeness flowing? How about charging people who submit it? That will really encourage them. Nice work.

1. Suck.com - One of the first, and easily the best, humor website on the web. Destroyed even before the dot com bubble could implode when it merged with the satanish company Feed Media. We miss you suck.