Kinda fun. Yahoo netrospective.

[Ensign Steve]

I guess yahoo is celebrating their 10th birthday, so they are having a little netrospective (http://birthday.yahoo.com/netrospective/) (apparently the net came into existence when yahoo incorporated). Anyway, it's a little bit fun and nostalgic. Check out this really old-looking yahoo page. (http://promo.yahoo.com/birthday10/incorporation/) There are no ads, and the source is straight HTML. Even the numbers are typed in, they're not queries. It's weird as hell!

[beyelzu]

I love the yahoo centric view that the site takes.

Offering the first free web-based email, Hotmail launches with a fizzle in '96. But word of mouth turns fizzle to sizzle, and potential competitors take note. Free email with huge storage like Yahoo! Mail continues to provide an alternative to "snail mail."


although it does mention google elsewhere it does not mention gmail.

[viscousmemories]

Well that was a lot of fun. I got lost in that for a long time. I was a big Yahoo! fan back in the early days of the web (I'm pretty sure I've had my Yahoo! e-mail account, which is my primary e-mail address, since about '97, and I even used to use Yahoo! Bill Pay in '99) but when someone told me about Google I switched to that for my search needs and never looked back.

That retrospective was not only pretty Yahoo!centric, but also pretty heavily favored the more commercial offerings on the 'net with not as much focus on the free goodness. There's some there, though. Mention of creativecommons and such. Anyway it was cool and brought back a lot of memories of the earlier days of the 'net. Thanks JD. :)

[Dingfod]

Check out this really old-looking yahoo page. (http://promo.yahoo.com/birthday10/incorporation/)I remember when it looked like that.

I've had my Yahoo email account, warren2002, since 1998.

[viscousmemories]

I don't really remember that, but I'm sure I would if my memory was intact. Hell I remember surfing the net with Lynx, the text-based web browser for Unix, before the graphical web browser arrived on the scene. And I had to walk 5 miles uphill (both ways) to get to the computer.

[Dingfod]

I remember when the intarweb thang was a string between two tin cans. And we liked it that way.

[Seven of Nine]

I remember when the intarweb thang was a string between two tin cans. And we liked it that way.

or we walked are doors an' hollered real loud, dint we, Clem?