Angelfire
{{short description|Website hosting service}}
{{about|the Internet service}}
{{Infobox website
| name = Angelfire
| url = [http://www.angelfire.lycos.com www.angelfire.lycos.com]
| commercial = No
| type = Paid web hosting service
| owner = Lycos
| screenshot = Angelfire Homepage.png
| screenshot_size = 250px
| caption = A screenshot of Angelfire
| launch_date = {{start date and age|1996}}
}}
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 Free webpages are no longer available to new registrants and have been replaced by paid services.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.{{Cite web |last=Jolly |first=Jennifer |title=TECH NOW: How to make your own website for free |url=https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/columnist/2013/09/22/free-website-build-tumblr-weebly-jimdo-wordpress/2838269/ |access-date=2023-02-04 |website=USA TODAY |language=en-US}}{{cite web|url= https://www.angelfire.lycos.com/aboutaf.tmpl |title= About Angelfire |work= Angelfire |access-date= November 22, 2023 |archive-date= November 22, 2023 |archive-url= https://archive.today/20231122115914/https://www.angelfire.lycos.com/aboutaf.tmpl |url-status=live}} Eventually, the site dropped the transcription service and focused solely on website hosting, offering only paid memberships. The site was bought by Mountain View, California–based WhoWhere on October 20, 1997,{{cite web | url=http://www.angelfire.com/doc/news.html | title=WhoWhere? to Acquire Angelfire Communications | work=Angelfire | date=1997-10-20 | url-status=dead | archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/19971211090307/http://www.angelfire.com/doc/news.html | archivedate=1997-12-11}} which, in turn, was subsequently purchased by the search engine company Lycos on August 11, 1998, for US$133{{nbsp}}million.{{cite news | url=https://money.cnn.com/1998/08/11/deals/lycos/ | title=Lycos buys WhoWhere? | work=CNN | date=1998-08-11 | accessdate=2021-12-01}}{{Cite web |last=Leadem |first=Rose |date=2016-08-04 |title=15 Internet Relics We Miss (and Some We Don't) |url=https://www.entrepreneur.com/science-technology/15-internet-relics-we-miss-and-some-we-dont/280243 |access-date=2023-02-04 |website=Entrepreneur |language=en}}
See also
- {{Portal-inline|Internet}}
References
{{Reflist}}
External links
- {{Official website|http://www.angelfire.lycos.com }}
- [http://www.angelfire.lycos.com/aboutaf.tmpl About Angelfire / History of site page]
{{Lycos}}