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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}}
}}
__NOTOC__
[[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/info.html Death-warrant is here]
* Feb 28th - '''Lycos member pages''' (Tripod) [http://members.lycos.co.uk/*]
 
* Feb 25th - '''[http://iq.lycos.co.uk Lycos iQ]''' (Question/Answer community)
* 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] - Deadline 28th Feb
* Feb 15th - '''[http://www.lycos.co.uk/emailsms/ Email and SMS services]'''
* [http://iq.lycos.co.uk Lycos iQ] (Question/Answer community) - Deadline 25th Feb
* Feb 15th - '''[http://fotomania.lycos.de Fotomania]'''(Photo community)
* '''[http://www.lycos.co.uk/emailsms/ Email and SMS services]''' -  see [http://mail.lycos.co.uk/] - Dead as of 15th Feb
* Feb 15th - '''[http://love.lycos.co.uk Love @ Lycos]''' (Dating)
* '''[http://fotomania.lycos.de Fotomania]''' - Photo community (in some locales) - Dead as of 15th Feb
* [http://love.lycos.co.uk Love @ Lycos] (Dating) - Dead as of 15th Feb


* 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:
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::*'''[http://vdownload.jubii.com/ VDownload]''' servers - file storage
::*'''[http://vdownload.jubii.com/ VDownload]''' servers - file storage


 
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).
".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).
 
 
This is AOL Hometown all over again, but now we have a few weeks to work with.
 
'''Tripod''' pages should be first priority: small files, high uniqueness. Then '''Jubii hosted files''', if we can find them. Then '''Fotomania''' and '''Jubii TV'''.
 
Not much we can do for the emails. [[Introduction |But a bit]].


== Backup Tools ==
== Backup Tools ==
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* 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]
* 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 and user content - [[wget]], if you can figure out where to point it.


* Hosted sites - wget, if you can figure out where to point it.
== Vital Signs ==


== Vital Signs ==
Still not quite dead...


On death row. Deadline: February 28th 2009.
=== 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.


== Who's Working On It? ==
=== Tripod hosting ===


Teaspoon - is harvesting the sites listed in the UK directory.  
[[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.


Please help: wget -i <pick a file>
{{Navigation box}}


* [http://ermsays.net/lycos-de.txt Germany] is huge
[[Category:Corporations]]
* [http://ermsays.net/lycos-nl.txt Netherlands] is huge
* [http://ermsays.net/lycos-es.txt Spain]
* [http://ermsays.net/lycos-it.txt Italy]
* [http://ermsays.net/lycos-fr.txt France] is really huge
* [http://ermsays.net/lycos-uk.txt UK]
* [http://ermsays.net/lycos-dk.txt Denmark] is tiny, and archived (but the more copies the safer)

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.