I kinda thought the old Egghead stores morphed into Newegg, but .....
"The company was founded by
Fred Chang, a U.S. immigrant from Taiwan, in 2001"
"The company has no relation to the
Egghead Software chain that was active from 1984 to 2001."
"The company was founded by Victor D. Alhadeff in 1984, as a single store in
Bellevue, Washington."
"In January 1998, the company reported a loss and announced it would close all 80 of its remaining stores, lay off 600 of its 800 employees, and sell only through its website, Egghead.com."
"In August 2001, the company filed
bankruptcy and worked out a deal to be acquired by
Fry's Electronics. However, the deal fell apart after Fry's accused Egghead of failing to provide financial documents, and in December 2001, the company sold its
domain name to
Amazon."