1985 – 2013retired
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“Be kind, rewind — the whole world did, and then the world moved on”
“Half-launched, fully loved: the friend who left before the party really started.”
Yahoo 360° was a social networking and personal communication portal where you could build a personal website, share photos from Yahoo! Photos, keep a blog and lists, and see which friends were online right now. Its 'friends updates' section quietly summarized everyone's latest blog posts, photos, and list changes — a proto-feed before feeds were a thing. It was warm, personal, and genuinely useful to the people who
The strange part: it never had an official launch, and Yahoo! prematurely stopped developing it in 2008. A kindred spirit, Yahoo! 360° Plus Vietnam, lasted until June 2012 before giving way to Yahoo! Blog, which itself was shut down on January 17, 2013. At least the goodbye was gracious — users could back everything up to a PC, WordPress, Blogger, or Zing Blog before the lights went out.
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“Be kind, rewind — the whole world did, and then the world moved on”
“It told friends where you were, back when that felt like a gift instead of a leak.”
“Glass and steel, held call until it didn't, and taught us all how to FaceTime.”