How many people remember Lycos.com

[JJChicken]

How many people remember back in the good ol' 1990s the search provided Lycos.com? I got my first e-mail with them and just recently visited their webpage. Do you still use the site?

 

[SpunkyJones]

I haven't used them in a long time, I thought they were gone.

 

[shafeen]

are they alive??............i thought they got bankrupt or something

 

[JJChicken]

Originally posted by: shafeen
are they alive??............i thought they got bankrupt or something

Nope, strong and well, and their wiki suggests that they are still reasonably popular. I checked out their email system recently, but gmail > lycos any day of the week.

 

[Vette73]

no, but www.excite.com is still my main page

 

[ponyo]

Originally posted by: shafeen
are they alive??............i thought they got bankrupt or something

They got bought out by Telefonica and then later Daum in Korea. I owned stock in Lycos during the dotcom bubble. One of the few stocks I got out with a nice profit before the bubble popped.

 

[JJChicken]

Originally posted by: Marlin1975
no, but www.excite.com is still my main page

wow that brings back memories. reminds me of the days of tripod.com and angelfire and how most websites were on those sites. good times

 

[ultimatebob]

Originally posted by: Marlin1975
no, but www.excite.com is still my main page

Dude... You should switch to myway.com, it has the exact same content as Excite (they're owned by the same company) but with less ads.

I wish that iGoogle would finally get some decent TV listings, so I could finally stop using that site!

 

[shafeen]

Originally posted by: Barack Obama

Originally posted by: shafeen
are they alive??............i thought they got bankrupt or something

Nope, strong and well, and their wiki suggests that they are still reasonably popular. I checked out their email system recently, but gmail > lycos any day of the week.

ok......gmail rocks anyways

 

[JJChicken]

Originally posted by: ultimatebob

Originally posted by: Marlin1975
no, but www.excite.com is still my main page

Dude... You should switch to myway.com, it has the exact same content as Excite (they're owned by the same company) but with less ads.

I wish that iGoogle would finally get some decent TV listings, so I could finally stop using that site!

Maybe he has adblocker

 

[MooMooCow]

Man, I thought that was a hosting site...... Or was it angelfire? Man, it's been a while.

 

[rh71]

doubled

 

[rh71]

I also remember altavista. In fact, I typed in http://babelfish.altavista.com just the other day.

 

[QTPie]

Originally posted by: SpunkyJones
I haven't used them in a long time, I thought they were gone.

I second that!

 

[JJChicken]

Originally posted by: rh71
I also remember altavista. In fact, I typed in http://babelfish.altavista.com just the other day.

It redirected to Yahoo lol. Altavista RIP

One wonders how soon yahoo will face the same fate.

 

[KB]

Webcrawler forever! I remember searching all the 5 major search engines to find a topic. Now its only one.

 

[Crono]

I remember Lycos. I used to use HotBot, then Yahoo, now the Googles.

 

[nick1985]

dogpile

 

[mugs]

I never really used Lycos. Before Google I used Yahoo, Webcrawler (when it was owned by AOL, but it was actually one of the best search engines :Q ), maybe a little Altavista (and I still use their Babelfish translator whenever I need something translated).

 

[txrandom]

Hearing all these makes me feel old...and I'm only in college.

 

[ViviTheMage]

LOL ANGELFIRE

man, half of the sites must have been hosted on their...

 

[LS8]

I remember those Lycos commercials where the dog would go find whatever you were searching for.

 

[sao123]

so many dead search engines... its hard to keep count


lycos
excite
infoseek
go
altavista
alltheweb
magellan

 

[mundane]

I used Lycos when I was on NetZero

 

[Chryso]

I remember when some college students decided to catalog the internet. They called it Yahoo.

Anybody remember using Archie and Gopher?