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{{Infobox project
| title = Lycos Europe
| url = http://lycos.co.uk/
| project_status = "unprofitable services" are {{offline}}, rest is {{online}}
| archiving_status = {{unknown}}
}}
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[[Image:Lycos-signoff.png|right|300px|Ciao]]
Lycos Europe have "decided to discontinue all unprofitable activities". This means a substantial chunk of their user-content sphere, including:
Lycos Europe have "decided to discontinue all unprofitable activities". This means a substantial chunk of their user-content sphere, including:


* '''[http://www.lycos.co.uk/emailsms/ Email and SMS services]''' -  see [http://mail.lycos.co.uk/]
* Feb 28th - '''Lycos member pages''' (Tripod) [http://members.lycos.co.uk/*]
* Lycos Europe '''member pages''' (Tripod) - http://members.lycos.co.uk/* - Attempts to register now return the following dismal message: [http://www.lycos.co.uk/stopregistration.html]
* Feb 25th - '''[http://iq.lycos.co.uk Lycos iQ]''' (Question/Answer community)
* '''[http://fotomania.lycos.de Fotomania]''' - Photo community (in some locales)
* Feb 15th - '''[http://www.lycos.co.uk/emailsms/ Email and SMS services]'''
* Feb 15th - '''[http://fotomania.lycos.de Fotomania]'''(Photo community)
* Feb 15th - '''[http://love.lycos.co.uk Love @ Lycos]''' (Dating)
 
* Jubii.com holdings (apart from the original Danish portal, which seems to have been bought. [http://translate.google.com/translate?prev=hp&hl=en&u=http://www.business.dk/article/20090107/medier/90107112/&sl=auto&tl=en]) specifically:
* Jubii.com holdings (apart from the original Danish portal, which seems to have been bought. [http://translate.google.com/translate?prev=hp&hl=en&u=http://www.business.dk/article/20090107/medier/90107112/&sl=auto&tl=en]) specifically:
::*'''[http://www.jubii.com/ Jubii email]'''
::*'''[http://www.jubii.com/ Jubii email]'''
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::*'''[http://vdownload.jubii.com/ VDownload]''' servers - file storage
::*'''[http://vdownload.jubii.com/ VDownload]''' servers - file storage


".co.uk" used above for convenience, but the same goes for hosted content across seven or eight countries: UK (.co.uk), France (.fr), Germany (.de), Netherlands (.nl), Spain (.es), Italy (.it), Denmark (.dk), Switzerland (.ch) (?) or Austria (.at).
Lycos Europe had portals in seven different countries, ".co.uk" is used above for convenience, but user content has been retired across all of the following: UK (.co.uk), France (.fr), Germany (.de), Netherlands (.nl), Spain (.es), Italy (.it), and Denmark (.dk).


Though perhaps they are keeping:
== Backup Tools ==


* [http://iq.lycos.co.uk Lycos iQ] (Question/Answer community)
* Email: Lycos are providing a software tool that communicates with their mail servers and downloads your stuff. Requires Outlook. [http://f012.mail.lycos.co.uk/app/settings/webdav/list.jsp]
* [http://love.lycos.co.uk Love @ Lycos] (Dating)


* Hosted sites and user content - [[wget]], if you can figure out where to point it.


This is AOL Hometown all over again, but now we have a few weeks to work with.
== Vital Signs ==


'''Tripod''' pages should be first priority: small files, high uniqueness. Then '''Jubii hosted files''', if we can find them. Then '''Fotomania''' and '''Jubii TV'''.
Still not quite dead...


Not much we can do for the emails. [[Introduction |But a bit]].
=== IQ ===
[[User:Tom Morris|Tom Morris]] has completed Lycos iQ UK. Once the site has gone down for good, I'll prepare the archives for public release.


== Backup Tools ==
=== Tripod hosting ===
 
* Email: Lycos are providing a software tool that communicates with their mail servers and downloads your stuff. Requires Outlook. [http://f012.mail.lycos.co.uk/app/settings/webdav/list.jsp]
 
* Jubii TV - Cunning use of [[wget]] will probably work.
 
* Hosted sites - wget, if you can figure out where to point it.
 
== Vital Signs ==


On death row. Deadline: February 14 2009.
[[User:Teaspoon|Teaspoon]] has all the non-dynamic hosted sites in the directories of Lycos UK, ES, IT, NL, and DK, and about two-thirds of FR. Ran out of time for the German sites.


== Who's Working On It? ==
{{Navigation box}}


Teaspoon - is spidering the directories and search engines for Tripod urls.
[[Category:Corporations]]

Latest revision as of 23:45, 25 June 2015

Lycos Europe
URL http://lycos.co.uk/
Status "unprofitable services" are Offline, rest is Online!
Archiving status Unknown
Archiving type Unknown
IRC channel #archiveteam-bs (on hackint)
Ciao

Lycos Europe have "decided to discontinue all unprofitable activities". This means a substantial chunk of their user-content sphere, including:

  • Jubii.com holdings (apart from the original Danish portal, which seems to have been bought. [2]) specifically:

Lycos Europe had portals in seven different countries, ".co.uk" is used above for convenience, but user content has been retired across all of the following: UK (.co.uk), France (.fr), Germany (.de), Netherlands (.nl), Spain (.es), Italy (.it), and Denmark (.dk).

Backup Tools

  • Email: Lycos are providing a software tool that communicates with their mail servers and downloads your stuff. Requires Outlook. [3]
  • Hosted sites and user content - wget, if you can figure out where to point it.

Vital Signs

Still not quite dead...

IQ

Tom Morris has completed Lycos iQ UK. Once the site has gone down for good, I'll prepare the archives for public release.

Tripod hosting

Teaspoon has all the non-dynamic hosted sites in the directories of Lycos UK, ES, IT, NL, and DK, and about two-thirds of FR. Ran out of time for the German sites.