OT: Does this mean the end of Yahoo and AOL?

[Nancy OShea]

Verizon will sell Yahoo and AOL for $5 billion to private equity firm Apollo Global Management, givi...

[osgood_]

Verizon will sell Yahoo and AOL for $5 billion to private equity firm Apollo Global Management, givi...

By @Nancy OShea

AOL was the first internet provider I signed up to back in the day on a 68k modem. They sent cd discs out to virtually every household in the UK, if my memory serves me correctly (so many years back) - you could use the information provided on that to sign up by some means, which I cant remember. Every dog has its day as they say.......

[Nancy OShea]

Yup.  At one point I must have had 30-40 unused AOL starter discs which I cut up to make Christmas decorations. Long before Google there was Yahoo, the first decent search engine of the era.

[osgood_]

Yup.  At one point I must have had 30-40 unused AOL starter discs which I cut up to make Christmas decorations.

By @Nancy OShea

Too true, there certainly was an abundance of AOL discs lying around.

[B i r n o u]

https://www.ebay.com/b/Aol-Disc/21092/bn_7023222743

[Nancy OShea]

EBAY:  the world marketplace for hoarders. 

[osgood_]

EBAY:  the world marketplace for hoarders. 

By @Nancy OShea

It amazes me just what rubbish you can try and sell and there always seems to be a buyer for it. I can't imagine who would want a redundant AOL cd disc............maybe some old AOL employees who want it for nostalgic reasons.

[B i r n o u]

in fact the very first decent search engine that I found before google was Alta Vista, others was at least directories... in france we called that types... "yellow pages"...