Yahoo
Yahoo Inc and styled as Yahoo!
was founded in January 1994 and incorporated in March 1995.
Globally known for its web portal and its famous Yahoo!
From 1997 till 1997 Yahoo remained among the top 3 most visited sites.
AltaVista used to process 2.5 million searches a day.
In 2003, Overture Services a search engine for online advertising, purchased AltaVista.
Overture was in turn purchased by Yahoo in 2003.
GeoCities began its journey as a Web Hosting service in December 1995.
However, this was acquired by Yahoo in 1999 and finallyshut downin October 2009.
Lycos
There are Internet users who swear by Lycos for good search results.
Angelfire
If you were a wannabe blogger in 1990s, Angelfire was the place to go.
This is an internet service that offers free space for the websites.
Originally launched in 1996 it actually began as a medium for Web site building and medical transcription service.
In 2008 Angelfire included blogs and photo gallery building features and it started working separately from Tripod.
Hence this site isstill in operationproviding the Web Hosting service and is owned by Lycos.
Tripod
AOL
In 1990, when you installed Win95, you were greeted by the AOL icon.
America Online was a dial up ISP.
In 2000 AOL merged with Time Warner and since then things went wrong with AOL.
Mainly because the Dialup was replaced by broadband internet access which was largely delivered by cable companies.
Despite efforts by AOL they could not get into the broadband game.
Then in 2006 America Online became AOL Inc.
The release of iPhone also made things worst for AOL.
AOL dial up still churns the maximum revenue and that is the main thing which gives AOL its recognition.
It was launched in 1994 by Mosaic Communications and the net net app was Mosaic Netscape.
This act of Netscape was liked by millions of users.
In 1979 CompuServe was the first service which offered electronic mail capabilities and technical support to personal computer users.
After being acquired by AOL CompuServe finally wasshut downin June 2009.
Ask Jeeves was a language based search engine.
Excite
Launched in December 1995 this was a collection of different websites and services.
Technically Excite isstill in operationas a web portal and it also offers Excite Tickets Portal and Excite Education Portal.
In 1990 it was the second largest online service provider.
During 1994 to 1996 the company shifted from dial up ISP to regular ISP however it succumbed to AOL.
In 2000 Prodigy became the exclusive provider to SBCs 77 million high-speed Internet customers.
As of March 2015 there is no content in the Prodigy site!!
Maybe one day Facebook will meet a similar fate!
source: www.techworm.net
