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I worked for Tripod.com back in the day, which eventually sold to Lycos for about $60M, just a few months before Yahoo bought Geocities for $3.6B. Needless to
by dewitt 13y ago
I worked for Tripod.com back in the day, which eventually sold to Lycos for about $60M, just a few months before Yahoo bought Geocities for $3.6B.
Needless to say, maybe we should have held out a bit longer. The late 90's were a strange time indeed.
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- n3rdy 13y agoWhat exactly did you have on this website? Once is happenstance, twice is a coincidence, three times is an act of war. :O!
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