Lycos exists!
30 minutes back, I saw a Lycos press release! My heart skipped a beat. I used to use it, umm.. may be in 1998…. I must have had 2 email id’s and had joined few Lycos communities. Those day, Lycos, Excite were a rage!
I never forgot the lycos spelling, so naturally, i typed it out lycos.com and what I see? May be a game site? Never mind, it ranks 1,668 in Alexa bar. Haha…. a Dog as a logo, what on earth?
Anyway, I read the current description of Lycos in the release ” a leading Internet portal and e-commerce destination in Korea with a growing presence throughout the Asian markets. Lycos, Inc. operates search and technology web sites that foster online communities, including the new Lycos Cinema video platform, combining community with high- quality broadband video content. Other Lycos products and sites include Lycos.com, Hotbot.com, Tripod.com, Angelfire.com, Gamesville.com, Lycos Mail, WhoWhere.com and The Lycos 50(TM). Lycos was acquired by Korean Daum Communications Corp. in October 2004 and has its U.S. headquarters in Waltham, Massachusetts.”
I remember only hotbot, tripod and angelfire. All others must be a new addition.
Hotbot logo has not changed.
I am not sure if angelfire logo has changed, but the site looks very East Asian or you can say a webserver company. The colors… that’s what I meant by East Asian.
Tripod definitely looks like an webserver company, may be it is.
AHHHHHH! the Lycos Mail looks very Angelfire type.
I checked the Wayback machine (click Here) I don’t seeing this format then. This is Dec 12, 1998.
I checked 1999 end… Look here, yeah, more like it.
This is how I last saw it ( Look here ) . So, I must have quit Lycos in 2000. If you scroll down, you will see the netscape logo too.
Anyway. I am not going to use it currently, but, if some one uses it, can send me an feed back.
