Businesses that claim not to have a Web site

 

Noble Clay Back Bay Brewing Company Transserve Radio station KROQ

[1998-08-01]
pottery workshop and showroom
Route 131, Martinsville (Tenants Harbor), Maine, USA
800-851-4957

The folks at Noble Clay are cheerful, humorous, and not among the first to take up new technology. When I visited the showroom in the summer of 1998, a hand-lettered sign www.nowedonthaveawebsite.com was featured prominently above the doorway. That sign is out of sight now (2001-03-06), and Noble Clay does indeed have a Web site. At Noble Clay they make handcrafted and hand-decorated bespoke and made-to-order porcelain ceramic goods with things written on them, in slip. Wedding presents, baby presents, and corporate gifts make up a big part of their output. One of my favorite items is a mirror whose frame reads, He who so shall, so shall he who. That would make a killer .sig.

Note added 1999-12-13: Inc. Magazine recently ran a small item about Noble Clay and their nouveau-Luddite non-domain-name. Co-owner Trish Inman explains, "We cannot be bigger, because it is so important to us that every piece of pottery goes through our own hands." Thanks to Bob Jordan <BobJordan at mail dot smsu.edu> for the pointer.


[1998-11-12]
Brew pub
755 Boylston St., Boston, Massachusetts, USA 02116: 617-424-8300
Patti Kelleher <patricia dot kelleher at retg dot com> writes that this brewpub sells t-shirts with the logo: www.wedonthaveawebsite.com. It appears we've pinned down the instigator of the meme. On 29 September the domain name was reserved and a placeholder Web page erected. I've established contact with the owner of this variant name, but he has not returned my calls.


[1998-11-12]
Transport & service company
95447 Bayreuth, Berlin, Germany: +49172 8600498

Jan Meyer <jmeyer at fh-potsdam dot de> writes:

Two weeks ago I met a friend of mine, [who] has a transport company. He gave me his card. Under the address field was a similar expression like you described: http://www.westilldonthaveawebsite.com.

(This domain name is still not registered as of 1999-11-19.)


[1999-11-19]
Los Angeles, CA

Charles G. Hill <chaz at doubt dot com> points out this example on his Chaz Awards page, on which this very site receives the coveted (?), first annual (?) Best backhanded tribute to Douglas R. Hofstadter award. Thanks. I think.

Fans of Los Angeles radio station KROQ, which has no Web site, have put up a Web site at www.kroqhasnowebsite.com.

Adding one final twist to the irony, KROQ has now gone and put up a site, so the above-mentioned self-referential fan site now reads simply, "Actually, it turns out that they do."

 

 

 

 

• Noble Clay
• Back Bay Brewing Company
• Transserve
• Radio station KROQ

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