Angelfire Explained

Angelfire
Url:	www.angelfire.lycos.com
Commercial:	No
Type:	Paid web hosting service
Owner:	Lycos
Screenshot Size:	250px

Angelfire is an Internet service that offers website services. It is owned by Lycos, which also owns Tripod.com. Angelfire operates separately from Tripod.com and includes features such as blog building and a photo gallery builder. Free webpages are no longer available to new registrants and have been replaced by paid services.

History

Angelfire was founded in 1996 and was originally a combination Web site building and medical transcription service.^{[1] [2]} Eventually the site dropped the transcription service and focused solely on website hosting, offering only paid memberships.^[2] The site was bought by Mountain View, California–based WhoWhere on October 20, 1997,^[3] which, in turn, was subsequently purchased by the search engine company Lycos on August 11, 1998, for US$133million.^{[4] [5]}

External links

• • About Angelfire / History of site page

Notes and References

1. Web site: Jolly . Jennifer . TECH NOW: How to make your own website for free . 2023-02-04 . USA TODAY . en-US.
2. Web site: About Angelfire . Angelfire . November 22, 2023 . November 22, 2023 . https://archive.today/20231122115914/https://www.angelfire.lycos.com/aboutaf.tmpl . live.
3. Web site: WhoWhere? to Acquire Angelfire Communications . Angelfire . 1997-10-20 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/19971211090307/http://www.angelfire.com/doc/news.html . 1997-12-11.
4. News: Lycos buys WhoWhere? . . 1998-08-11 . 2021-12-01.
5. Web site: Leadem . Rose . 2016-08-04 . 15 Internet Relics We Miss (and Some We Don't) . 2023-02-04 . Entrepreneur . en.