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The Spot
The Spot was the first episodic fiction website to meet with success and an innovator due to its use of paid advertising to underwrite the cost of bandwidth. Begun in 1995 The Spot was an online soap opera which told the story of several teens living together in Santa Monica, California. The Spot won one of the first Webby awards and its success lead to the creation of American Cybercast, the first online network. But it was all downhill from there. The advertising revenue brought in by The Spot and a few other online shows wasn’t enough to sustain the network and by 1997 American Cybercast had fallen into bankruptcy. The Spot was briefly revived in 2004, but has once again gone dark.
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