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.
hi kuya yuga..i stumbled upon this..coz i was trying to check my rebelde friends sa google..mis u =)
aowww me encantan rbd son los mejores los amo todos los videos k an echo me an encantado polk son bn lindos me encantaria conoserlos en personalidad seria lo maximo k ubiera tenido en mi vida pero no los puedo ber en personalidad bueno algun dia sera los kiero rbd son los maximo… tkm rbd
i was in rebelde too. i recall the following members scrappydog d3viL dbench yuga icezorg who else?
hey miguel te kierro muchooo
O Q MAIS ME ENCANTA É A MIA A ROBERTA O DIEGO O SANTOS O TEO O GIOVANNI O MIGUEL MAS TODOS SAO O MAXIMO ADORO ELES MAS OS 6 DA BANDA AINDA NÃO MANDARAM O NOVO DVD DELES EU TENHO TODOS MAS NAO TENHO O NOVO EU PRECISO DO NOVO ADORO TODOS OS VIDEOS E QUERIA QUE A NOVELA DELES PASSASSE NA REDE GLOBO SERIA MUITO MAIS SUCESSO E QUERO ASSISTIR O FILME ESTOU LOUCA PRA VER O FILME
Los amo mucho rbd y me encanta mucho poncho. quisiera conocerlos personalmente
bueno mira los quieres atodos
aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah a mi me gustan sus cansiones son beyas unas cansiones son tristes y unas son emosionantes.yo bivo en mckenney,tx y quiero que bengan para mckinney,tx los quiero mucho.adios
REBELDE los ciero MUCHO,y MAS A ANAHI y a DULCE MARIA.TE CIERO MUCHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO.YO TENGO TODOS TOS CD’s
miguel, roko, santos y teo me encantan son los mas lindos
en la novela los quiero me muero por verlos de cerca bay
hola como lesba en la musica chavos
YO LO CHURO COMO SI FUERA MI ERMANOS
I LOVE YOU,RBD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
jo amo multo rbd i the romaina se acabo ls rbd re quero rbd
diganme su msg para ablar con ustedes dulce christopher mayte alfonso y cristian los quiero mucho!♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥
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los quiero dulce alfonso maite christopher y cristian