Lycos Europe

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

• Feb 28th - [1]Lycos member pages (Tripod)
• Feb 25th - Lycos iQ (Question/Answer community)
• Feb 15th - Email and SMS services
• Feb 15th - Fotomania(Photo community)
• Feb 15th - Love @ Lycos (Dating)

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

• Jubii email
• Jubii TV - videos
• 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).

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)