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“It once ran the whole fun part of the internet, and it never asked for a flashlight”
“All the groups went quiet at once, and the reply-all era ended with them.”
Yahoo! Groups was a free system of electronic mailing lists that, before February 2020, stood among the world's largest collections of online discussion boards. Members subscribed to groups, read discussions online, shared photos, files and bookmarks, kept group calendars, ran polls, and got email notifications of new topics. Some groups were quiet announcement boards moderated from above; others were rowdy open foru
The end came in two gentle pulls of the plug: on February 1, 2020, Yahoo! removed online access to discussions and everything else except basic membership management, reducing the groups to plain mailing lists. On October 13, 2020, it announced the full shutdown, which took effect on December 15, 2020. What's left behind is a mailing-list generation's worth of clubhouses that now exist only in inboxes and memory.
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“It once ran the whole fun part of the internet, and it never asked for a flashlight”
“Your money arrived; eventually, so did the merger.”
“Checked out every source, never returned late, still missed by every paper it helped write.”