Tripod

Tripod
URL	http://www.tripod.lycos.com/
Status	Offline
Archiving status	Partially saved (check Angelfire's page)
Archiving type	DPoS
IRC channel	#angelonfire (on hackint)

Tripod was a web hosting service. It allowed users to use a subdomain or their own custom domain. It is not clear if Lycos was turning a profit during Tripod's last years. Like the other Lycos-owned web hosting service, Angelfire, it featured a lot of user-generated content of early WWW history.

After the incidents of Lycos Europe in early 2009, it seemed that the website is at risk of being shutdown. The shutdown was eventually announced in early March 2026. On 2026-04-24, Tripod became inaccessible.

Shutdown

On 2026-03-06, the following announcement appeared on the homepage of Lycos, which implied that both Tripod and Angelfire would be shut down by 2026-04-05:

To our users of Angelfire and Tripod. We apologize for the service interruptions. Unfortunately we will be shutting down in the next 30 days. Please move your hosting to another host as soon as possible.

While the above message was removed from the Lycos homepage shortly after, it could still be found in its source code. On 2026-04-03, the announcement reappeared.

User-generated websites of Tripod remained accessible for the following weeks, unlike those of Angelfire, which gave either 403 or 502 errors. The latter error was also possible for Tripod, but did not happen generally. On 2026-04-24, seven weeks after the original announcement, Tripod ceased to be accessible. By 2026-04-27, another message appeared on the Lycos homepage:

Lycos services are experieincing a temporary outage. To our loyal users of Lycos Mail , Tripod and Angelfire we apologize and appreciate your patience while we work to restore service as soon as possible.

However, since at least 2026-04-29, Tripod is no longer mentioned. There were still some traces of Tripod on other pages of Lycos' website, including the support portal and product overview, which no longer exist as of 2026-05-28. The domain tripod.com still redirected to tripod.lycos.com until at least 2026-05-12.

Discovery & Downloading

A copy of Tripod's sitemap can be downloaded here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1otmsqQ4SlZpxYYDXfyujHiltKFnuuWlF/view?usp=sharing It consists of 255 .xml files, and roughly 4,000,000 URLs. However, most of these do not return code 200.

Through basic subdomain scanning using Knockpy python knockpy.py tripod.com we can locate approximately 30,000 subdomains with around 17,500 returning code 200.

After we single out all active subdomains we can use a command like this to create a WARC of each domain.

parallel -a domains.txt --jobs 10 wget -e robots=off -m --page-requisites --warc-file="{/}" {}

Finally, we'd just have to combine all the WARC files using something like MegaWARC or MegaWARC Factory.

How to help if you have lists of URLs

For other ArchiveTeam projects that can use this kind of help, see Projects requiring URL lists.

This project requires lists of URLs for content on the target website. If you have a source of URLs, please:

1. Use the PCRE regular expression (lycos|tripod|angelfire)\.com for filtering.
   • Enable case-insensitive matching (e.g. grep's -i) to catch URLs with capitalization.
   • If using grep or similar, enable text matching (-a or --text) to catch URLs in files with apparent binary data.
   • Example command (GNU grep): grep -Pahoi '(lycos|tripod|angelfire)\.com' FILENAME FILENAME...
2. If the output exceeds a few megabytes, compress it, preferably using zstd -10.
3. Give the file a descriptive name and upload it to https://transfer.archivete.am/.
4. Share the resulting URL in the project IRC channel.
   • If you wish your list to remain private, please get in touch with a channel op (e.g. arkiver or JustAnotherArchivist). Items generated from your list will still be processed publicly, but they will be mixed in with all other items and channel logs will not associate them with you.

External links

• Tripod^{[IA•Wcite•.today]}