Where Are Big Web1 Companies Today

Verizon is buying Yahoo for $4.8 billion, acquiring its core Internet assets including search, email, finance, news, sports, Tumblr and Flickr, after buying AOL for $4.4 billion last year. The article traces what happened to other early Internet brands, many of which were bought and shut down by Yahoo, AOL or other owners. CompuServe was shut down by AOL in 2009, Prodigy Classic in 1999, and Yahoo shut down AltaVista in 2013 and GeoCities in 2009. AOL bought Netscape for $4.2 billion in 1998 and stopped supporting it in 2008, and it sold ICQ to Digital Sky Technologies in 2010 for $188 million.