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>Yahoo! Groups lasted 19 years.

>I co-admin a large group that had to find a new home when it was killed off. We went to a third party (groups.io) that accepts money in exchange for services.

Irony / wheel coming full circle, sort of:

Follow the links about M&A and founders in the links below.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yahoo!_Groups

->

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/EGroups

->

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/ONElist

->

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Fletcher_(businessman)

->

https://groups.io/

->

https://wingedpig.com/about/

Edit: okay, I didn't see this post by ryanwhitney before I first posted this.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35073095

I saw it only after.

Anyway, I knew about this history because I had a Yahoo! Groups account before it was that, i.e. was either eGroups or OneList, had been following Mark Fletcher, and had a groups.io account too, and had read his blog from long back.




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