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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/info.html Death-warrant is here]
* Feb 28th - [http://members.lycos.co.uk/*]'''Lycos member pages''' (Tripod)   
 
* 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 ==


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


== Who's Working On It? ==
=== 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.
Teaspoon - is harvesting the sites listed in the UK directory.  
 
Please help: wget -i <pick a file>


* [http://ermsays.net/lycos-de.txt Germany] is huge
=== Tripod hosting ===
* [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)


=== IQ ===
[[User:Teaspoon|Teaspoon]] has over thirty thousand of the thirty-two thousand hosted sites in the Lycos UK directory. Non-UK sites are gone. Most ex-directory sites are gone. (Estimated to be a further seven thousand, based on Google-sampling)
[[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.

Revision as of 00:57, 4 March 2009

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

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 over thirty thousand of the thirty-two thousand hosted sites in the Lycos UK directory. Non-UK sites are gone. Most ex-directory sites are gone. (Estimated to be a further seven thousand, based on Google-sampling)

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