I almost totally forgot about my “What happened to” series. I only remebered it after seeing some search keywords that ended up in my blog. See, there are still people who are wondering what happened to these sites/projects.
Anyway, I’m not sure if some of you remembered or knew about Rebelde.com but it was one of the “most controversial” sites during the forums era in the Philippines (circa 2000). Rebelde.com is a new forum and free email service launched in 2000 and owned by some Fil-Am family based in Las Vegas. They literally had hundreds and hundreds of Tagalog domain names used as free emails powered by Outblaze.
It was the only Filipino-targetted forum which offer to pay from Php1.00 to Php10.00 per post to all members That got it to become the talk fo the town. The management tried to buy into PinoyExchange.com but after they were rejected, they reckon they’re better off using the supposed fund to kick-start a new forum and what better way to pump-up membership than to promote pay-per-post. A lot of people were skeptical and there was a huge fight debate amongst the members of both forums.
Anyway, 2 years into the project, and hundreds of thousands of payouts later, the project was canned. The forums were doing well, the shopping service was bringing in sales from OFWs but the emails from Outblaze sucked (though it got Edsamail into some stiff competition). Later on, the forum DB got corrupted and was never restored back.
The plan was scrapped since it was not going the way it should be, which I didn’t understand in the first place even if I was one of the assigned mods in the forum and their “contact person” in the Philippines. It was a classic Bubble 1.0 disaster.
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I think you know the reasons why this site went down hehehe.
In the corporate world if the site project doesn’t help in promoting its company or sell their products and services they will shutdown. I think that was one of those many reasons. And for the record if rebelde.com didn’t exist I won’t be able to meet master yuga and other great forumers. Astig di ba?
have you considered our suggestion ? you know the BLeaf thing? heheheh
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Ah, the good old Rebelde days. Yup, if not for Rebelde and Grabeh.com, I wouldn’t have met yuga too.
what happened to Blueleafmedia.net?
blueleafmedia.net was formed by 6 good-looking individuals from different field of IT…
hehehehe
you should not mentioned that sylver hehehhe. I hope hindi mapasama dyan sa what happened to. .. series ang grabeh.com. I think I need to update the site
Don’t even start with me on that! :p
Hmmm…. more on this would be good…
mi nombre es roberta y quien eres yu?
mi nombre es roberta y quien eres tu
y de donde eres?
hey mi nombre es
hey mi nombre es roberta y ustedes como se yaman y quiero que pongan mas fotos ?
de ustedes y yo soy su fan numero 1
hi i am njomza
i luv rebelde way
hola mi nomber es damaris yo i mi a miga queremos las ropa de ti
hola que eres tu
“I LOVE REBELDE”
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Los qiero a todos los rebeldes
Los adoro a todos
Pueden esqrivir de regreso
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robreta
me gusta toda tu ropa y me gutaria que compartierastu ropa cu migo
me gusta toda tu ropa y me gutaria que compartierastu ropa con migo
Mia Roberta Miguel Lupita Diego y Giovanni buena suerte, good luck.
Hola rebelde nos encanta su musica vamos al concierto de Tucson pero cuesta mucho,mia que bonita ropa tienes,miguel tu eres el mas guapo los vimos en disneyworld.