Topic: Yahoo Shutting Down Delicious, Buzz, Other Services

[sam]

Yahoo will shut down several of its Web properties, including Delicious, Yahoo Buzz, and AltaVista, according to a Yahoo presentation slide that was posted on Twitter.

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2374446,00.asp

[Rik]

I can't say I'm surprised, Sam.

[Simon]

I haven't used AltaVista for years, but used to have an email address with them. 

[GillE]

I won't notice.

[Rik]

It would be fun to dig up some of those early email addresses, wouldn't it. I had one at bigfoot.com (how apt ), and another at scotlandmail.com.

[Simon]

My first dip into the Internet was with a Bush Internet set top box, so my first email was @bushinternet.com. I think that's dead, but I still get mail to my old Talk21 address. 

[Rik]

I had one of those too, but my first was with BT's monthly subscription service, whose name escapes me right now. £15pm sub, long-distance phone call rates to access, and a data charge per kB. That was in 1984.

[Simon]

Mine was in about 1998!

[Rik]

Stripling.

[Clive]

I'd forgotten all about AltaVista.     My first e-mail address was @delphi.com, probably in 1990. 

[Simon]

I've lost count how many I've had now.  In the glory days of dial up, I used to switch ISPs almost monthly! 

[Rik]

I went through 17.

[Simon]

Clive will remember, a few of us used to follow each other around.  A 'new' ISP would pop up, which would be really good for a while, then word would get round and they would over-subscribe, become sh*t, and we'd bugger off to the next one.   

[chorleydave]

Clive will remember, a few of us used to follow each other around.  A 'new' ISP would pop up, which would be really good for a while, then word would get round and they would over-subscribe, become sh*t, and we'd bugger off to the next one.   

In the days of EZPC, didn't a few of us use Fast24?

[Simon]

Yup, and AlphaPhe?  They only lasted five minutes!