An Undignified End to an Internet Pioneer I was one of Wingspan Bank’s first customers when they opened their online banking system as a division of Bank One back in 1997 or so. Wingspan closed its doors and merged with Bank One probably about 6 years ago now, with (if I remember correctly) only 77,000 customers — obviously, the world had changed a lot, and online banking no longer required a dedicated “online bank.” Even after Wingspan closed, I kept my Wingspan-turned-Bank One account, although there wasn’t much money in it and I didn’t really use it for much of anything. Finally, last week, I decided to close the account — easy, I figured, since Bank One had merged with…