July 2, 1998

In 3MR:

The Missing Ingredient in the Portal Wars: Caffeine

While most people know about CNET's Snap! making a deal with NBC, a much less heralded deal was made between CNET and Peet's Coffee. CNET had registered the domain name coffee.com a while back, but no one knew why. While the company had been supplying employees with Starbucks coffee, one day the switch was made to Peet's. It ends up that CNET traded the domain name to Peet's for an undisclosed amount of free coffee supplies for employees. And who says CNET doesn't care about the welfare of its workers, the happy little buzzing bees? Now they can stay up even later working on projects...