Jan 18

Tripod and Lycos Mail going to shut down

I had my first web page placed online on Tripod. The then Tripod offer something like 6 MB I think, back then where there weren’t many free things on the internet, it was magical. I never understood the generosity of commercial establishments that time, and I couldn’t understand why would anybody click on the advertisements. But all good things come to an end, Tripod is to be closed. So is Lycos Mail. I remember I had Lycos Mail somewhere.

Lycos To Shutter Lycos Mail, Tripod On February 15

Troubled Internet company Lycos is shutting down its email service and website creation and hosting service Tripod, the company is saying via emails to users that begin with “We regret to inform you that our parent company has decided to discontinue all unprofitable activities.” Both services will be discontinued as of February 15 2009.

Both were early Internet services but have languished under heavy competition from better known and better financed rivals. Tripod has actually been around since 1992, and was bought by Lycos for a reported $58 million in 1998.

A new version of Lycos Mail was released in August 2006, but Comscore says it has less than half a million worldwide users and it’s nowhere near the top ten mail providers, which each have more than ten million users. (Source: TechCrunch)

By the way, my tripod site is still there by the way, with much of the layout already broken since I am using Google Chrome. I opened up the source and look at how I code things. And I actually used div tags and style sheets. That played a part for me in learning HTML. So how do you learn your HTML?

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“Tripod and Lycos Mail going to shut down”
2 comments

  1. I have several websites hosted with Tripod. I have been with them since 1998 and think they are absolutely wonderful and a doddle to use. Will I lose all my content? I’ve had over 200,000 visitors to my story website and have over 100 stories listed there. It will be a collossal task to set up a new site elsewhere.
    Please tell me if Tripod websites will be abolished in Feburary or is it just email?

    Many thanks
    Wendy Tunnard.

    Jan 19

  2. One of the activities that will be discontinued is our E-mail business division. For this reason, we are hereby terminating your account as of 15 February 2009. Currently, we are still working on finding a solution to provide you the service through another provider. If we should succeed to do so, we will inform you within the next 4 weeks. But as this is currently doubtful, we would like to ask you to assume the end of the service.

    Prior to this date, you may continue to log in to your e-mail account and receive and send mail as usual. After this date, however, we will close your account and delete all content and access authorizations stored with Lycos in relation to your e-mail account, in accordance with legal requirements.

    This is the email sent to Lycos Mail users. I assume Tripod users are sent something similar. I think it is likely they would sell it if possible. I hope you don’t have to set up your site again!

    Jan 19

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