Trip down memory lane reading about the series of missteps by Yahoo. GeoCities was once cool, and I had my starter website there like millions of people back in the day. Many of these site were an eye-sore with loud, clashing colors, animated font and other travesties. Those were the disco years of the internet when compared to the modern design aesthetic. Yahoo lives on while other relics of the time have long since passed.
Even with it's relevance declining every day, it is still good to see Yahoo around much like it is good to see a pay phone now and again that you could point out to the young and uninformed, explain that there was a time before cell-phones and if you got stuck somewhere with a car trouble, you used one of these to get help. Such relics of times past serve an useful purpose but knowing Yahoo it may not be long before they kill themselves entirely instead of hacking bits and pieces off all the time - might actually be a good thing too. Once its over people will stop agonizing, archiving and get on with their lives
In fact, Yahoo’s bad reputation may be thanks, in part, to the fact that it had such a good eye for acquisitions 15 or 20 years ago. It kept buying things that people really cared about, cool companies that could have had more interesting futures if their founders hadn’t sold them to a megacorporation that would eventually pull them from public view.
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