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> They could be replaced by Google tomorrow if people just stopped using them and went elsewhere for the same information and services. Because people won't "j
by w1ntermute 10y ago
> They could be replaced by Google tomorrow if people just stopped using them and went elsewhere for the same information and services.
Because people won't "just stop using them." Yahoo's current users aren't the early adopter type. They don't like change, or trying new things.
- gaius 10y agoTo be fair, they WERE early adopters, that's how they ended up on Yahoo in the first place. It's the GMail crowd who showed up late, when everyone was getting webmail.
- rdl 10y agoI was an active Internet user before/during Yahoo!'s rise -- it was NEVER the choice of technical early-adopters. (Flickr kinda was, as an acquisition, in a narrow space) It was always the kinda-dowdy boring brand for non-technical people. Even at the very beginning it wasn't even the go-to link list for smart/knowledgeable people. Yahoo! Mail was for people who were too unresourced to have their own mail accounts or maintain university/work/etc. accounts.
- gaius 10y ago... But who had dial-up. Seriously, same with AOL. 99% of people had never even heard of the Internet until the late-90s. As much as we disparage them now, they really were ahead of the crowd back then.
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