The bust, whole: no town firm for the crash to take

L81-9 · Directory and press record, 2000–02

Tested negative: the 2000–02 crash cannot have taken a New Carlisle dot-com firm in any record searched, because no such firm appears in the record before, during or after the crash window. The test had two legs. First, the directory leg: the same firm-registry and discovery instruments used for the second-wave tests were read for any internet, software, e-commerce or web-services firm seated in the town or township at any date — a firm must exist in a directory before its death can appear in one — and none appears at any date. Second, the press leg: discovery joining the town’s name to the crash vocabulary of 2000–02 (“dot-com,” “closes,” “failed,” “bankruptcy,” “acquired,” “fire sale”) returned no town firm failure, shutdown or distressed acquisition. The dot-com obituaries that discovery does return are the national canon — Pets.com (shut down November 2000), Boo.com (liquidators, May 2000), Exodus Communications (Chapter 11 in late 2001, purchased by Cable & Wireless), Fandom, Inc. (1999–2001), Netpliance (exited the appliance market by 2002) — every one seated on the coasts or in major metros, none with any stated tie to this ground.

The honest size of this row follows from the earlier rows: a bust story needs a boom firm. Legs 81-6 and 81-7 found no municipal-software firm and no firm in any second-wave class; the banked specialty record found no homegrown dot-com winner. With no town firm in the boom record, the bust record for the town is empty not because the crash spared it, but because — on all evidence reachable — there was nothing here of that kind for the crash to take. If a town web firm existed below directory visibility and died below press visibility, its settler is the same as before: a dated directory listing, incorporation or dissolution filing, or Tribune item naming it. None was found.

Sources:

1. Directory / discovery instruments as in L81-7 — no town-seated internet firm at any date; therefore no 2000–02 death entry possible in those instruments.
2. Web discovery (“New Carlisle Indiana” + dot-com / closes / failed / bankruptcy / acquired, 2000–02 frame) — no town firm returned.
3. National bust canon returned by the same discovery, for contrast only: Pets.com shutdown Nov. 2000; Boo.com liquidation May 2000 (Law.com / Accountancy Age); Exodus Communications Chapter 11, 2001 (Wikipedia summary of the record); Fandom, Inc. 1999–2001 (Fanlore); Netpliance exit by 2002 (Startup Obituary). None tied to this ground.