She's dead, Jim

[vin_petrol]

She's gone. Finally, almost 10 years after she went live, Ananova is no more.

http://www.ananova.com now redirects you to the Orange news site.

Another icon of the insane dot.com era passes...

Comments

[steer.livejournal.com]

Not here it doesn't. Maybe the DNS is working its way around.

[vin_petrol]

Ooh, you're right. She's still visible "out there". Toybox can still see her. Perhaps a DNS update is making its way around...

Or someone, somewhere hasn't quite done things 100% properly ;-)

[steer.livejournal.com]

DNS updates can take around 24 hours to propagate properly.

It's a bugger really. That's distributed systems for you.

[rich-r.livejournal.com]

That's a shame, I did at one time rely on Ananova for my daily news updates.

I guess you could change the redirection to http://www.lazertits.com - a site I'm sure you'll appreciate.

[nigelmouse.livejournal.com]

Many years ago I used ananova for my tailored news updates as well.

Working for the company that bought it and having star wars rendered heads speaking messages via MMS seemed just like the kind of silly stuff I wanted to be involved in when I grew up :) It's a shame that kind of crazy isn't seen as a priority any more :(

I'm still getting the Ananova page here, I've saved an image of it for posterity while it still works :)

Bye Bye Ananova.