Lycos to Drop Lycos Mail, Tripod

Lycos to Drop Lycos Mail, Tripod

Author JoeDigital

Lycos (latin for spider), is one of the wordwide web’s oldest search engines, rivaling Yahoo as one of the original search monsters. From there, it grew into a free email site, and provided website urls to anyone interested in setting up their own web page, using theiur Tripod services. In February, LYcos email and Tripod will be discontinued.

Lycos, which is still a major search engine and internet directory, is feeling the crunch of tough economic times, and cutting corners by cutting back on free services, it seems. To many, this is almost like the end of an era, as we watch the commercial push to populate webspace give way to the larger and more commercialized world of web 2.0. Just as Netscape gave way to fresher Mozilla packages, so do the old school websites and email providers fall to wayside as it becomes easier for such services to be provided on an as-needed basis by site who capitalize on the earnings potential of keyword oriented click-thru campaigns, and on-page advertising.

Remember, if you have any old data at these Lycos services, you only have a few weeks to remove it, or you’ll risk losing it forever.

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