 Angelfire homepage | |
Type of site | Paid web hosting service |
|---|---|
| Dissolved | 2026 |
| Owner | Lycos |
| URL | angelfire.lycos.com |
| Commercial | No |
| Launched | 1996 |
Angelfire was an Internet service that offered website services. It is owned by Lycos, which also owns Tripod.com. Angelfire operated separately from Tripod.com and included features such as blog building and a photo gallery builder.
History
[edit]Angelfire was founded in 1996 and was originally a combination website building and medical transcription service.[1][2] Eventually, the site dropped the transcription service and focused solely on website hosting, offering only paid memberships.[2] The site was bought by Mountain View, California–based WhoWhere on October 20, 1997,[3] which, in turn, was subsequently purchased by the search engine company Lycos on August 11, 1998, for US$133 million.[4][5]
On March 6, 2026, Lycos announced the cessation of all its operations within 30 days. Lycos ended its operation without offering any advanced notice to its paying customers. This means that access to the coding and data of these now former sites is lost, making it difficult to copy and move these sites to new providers.
References
[edit]- ^ Jolly, Jennifer. "TECH NOW: How to make your own website for free". USA TODAY. Retrieved 2023-02-04.
- ^ a b "About Angelfire". Angelfire. Retrieved November 22, 2023.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: deprecated archival service (link) - ^ "WhoWhere? to Acquire Angelfire Communications". Angelfire. 1997-10-20. Archived from the original on 1997-12-11.
- ^ "Lycos buys WhoWhere?". CNN. 1998-08-11. Retrieved 2021-12-01.
- ^ Leadem, Rose (2016-08-04). "15 Internet Relics We Miss (and Some We Don't)". Entrepreneur. Retrieved 2023-02-04.