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For Sale: Lycos.com
prostoalex writes "Terra Lycos is planning to sell Lycos.com. The price, quoted by News.com.com.com, is in the $200 mln range, while the original acquisition amounted to $12.5 bln. Lycos is currently re-inventing itself as a portal for the new generation with the link to Playboy affiliate placed right on the front page (click on "Adults 18+ only")."
You won't catch me that easily goatse boy
I'll just wait until they fail to renew the domain and just pay the 35 bucks.
That means Tripod might not be around anymore. WTF are the phishers supposed to use now?
*sigh*
Oh well, there's always geocities...
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Hell, I'll give at least $50. It's a bit high for an opening offer given the current lack of reputation, but I think it's fair.
Give a man a fish, he'll eat for a day, but teach a man to phish...
A campy, old-school web portal for sale! I hope they accept COD. It'd look great mounted on the wall above my wet bar with all the vintage neon beer signs. Maybe when I can afford it, I'll get an Altavista to put up next to it. That would rock.
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...$200 billion going in, $12.5 billion going out...
What are you smoking?
Sorry... 90s era accounting. Can I restate those numbers to be in the millions instead?
Horray! Its been 6 hours of reloading slashdot and finally we get a non-linux story.
Sure, Sun's Java Desktop System was insightful.
And Fedora Core 2 Test 3 was um, interesting.
The Linux Desktop Summit 2004 article was informative (wish I got some maple syrup and a t-shirt)
And the conspiricy theorys in the Turbolinux Licenses Windows Media 9 article were something to wrap my tinfoil hat around
But thank god, slashdot has returned to normal. A sexy search engine story to wet my apatite. Wait, is it how great Google is for running on Linux?! (/me reads TFA). Ok, were safe. Hopefully in a few hours a fud-filled gmail article will come up, or even better cmdrtaco will post this one again for double the pleasure, double the fun.
but seriously, about the maple syrup, hook me up.
Im dreaming ofa big bndwdth, That can resist the
Lycos is currently re-inventing itself as a portal for the new generation with the link to Playboy affiliate placed right on the front page (click on "Adults 18+ only").
While I'm familiar with many a washed-out pop musician turning to Playboy to boost an aching career, I'd never imagine this trend to extend to websites...
Maybe SCO should buy it. Both companies have a similar client base and future.
None whatsoever.
Si tacuisses philosophus mansisses. If you had kept quiet, you would have remained a philosopher.
Anybody want a peanut?
Assume I was drunk when I posted this.
Sounds like Lindows. $63,000 in sales in 2002. $6,700,000 spent in 2002. More than $100 spent for every dollar brought in! At least you know what happened to the money you spent on mp3.com stock.
This is why you use OGG.
Lindows Steals Copyrighted Art and Promotes Porn
I guess the beancounters over at Lycos are still partying like it's 1999.
Can someone go over and tell them about the dot-com bust please?
$200m indeed -- bah!
If this is true, what does this mean for lycos.com?
Nothing is so smiple that it can't get screwed up.
In other news this evening, the Lycos dog was killed when someone typed in the words "1986 Chevrolet Caprice Front Bumper" into the search field and hit the "Go Get It" button. Services will be held at the fire hydrant outside of Arlington National Cemetary at noon.
If carrots got you drunk, rabbits would be fucked up. - Comedian Mitch Hedberg R.I.P. 03/30/68-2/24/05
All those smiling people can't be wrong!
Come get some.
Who let Dr Evil in????
Professor Karmadillo Songs of Science
Big dog: Wwwooof!
Imperious nerd: Fetch me a business model!
Big dog: Wwwooof! [Whooshing noise as faithful LYCOS rushes off into the jungles of cyberspace (oooooh!) to fetch his master a business model.]
[Dead air]
Imperious nerd: Lycos? LYCOS?