They were going places in the mid/late 00s. I found Yahoo
   EXTREMELY useful. They were a HUGE part of Web 2.0 and allowed
   me to make decent money by leveraging their AMAZING tools
   particularly Yahoo Pipes. What a brilliant project that was! But
   from around 2011/12 onwards, they lost their way. Starting
   trying to monetize things that weren't really all that
   monetizable. I suppose it was a last ditch effort but once they
   left the search engine scene and were starting to cap the Pipes,
   AND at the same time Google slapped my profitable, productive
   website back to nowheresville at the same time, I just said,
   "F'it". [not the website below - but a different project I was
   doing] I have to put it on the pile with Gopher, BBS',
   Geocities, and AOL's old message forums, lost during the great
   wipe of... was that 2007? 2009? I forget, and the gradual
   decline of Google Groups. Our collective Internet memory is
   fading. New horizons aboud and I look forward to the future, but
   I watch the past crumble at the same time. I save what I can.
   Little text files here and there. my whole
   [1]http://icopiedyou.com site is my way of preserving at least
   my OWN words... especially from the earlier by-gone era. I see
   similar things happening in the future with The Cloud. Lots of
   information will be lost once the cloud ceases to be "The Thing"
   and yet more backup systems are wiped for whatever the NEXT new
   thing is. Will it be Quantum computers? Some new way of
   resurrecting old ideas? Whatever the case is [mind you, I like
   the cloud, I just wouldn't depend on it to be around for 15-20
   years] - gotta take care of your own data and not depend on
   company'd hanging around forever. Facebook? This? This will go
   away. This message I'm writing, if I don't save it, will be gone
   forever, even as I'm typing it. So, save what matters.

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