If anyone is right for making a movie about the rise and fall (and all the greed in-between) of ‘urban dot coms’ in the late 90s, its our good friend, John Lee. Enter First Generation Urban, an interesting looking effort by Lee about the excesses and ultimately the spectacular failure of Urban Box Office (ubo.com).

Around 1999 when I started wasting all my time on the Internet, I came across a site called Urbanexpose.com. It was based in New York and primarily concerned with mocking organisations that ranged from self-proclaimed ‘urban’ dot com’s to media moguls, magazines and media companies.