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I'm personally shocked Yahoo is still a company.

I personally don't know anyone daft enough to use their services up here in Canada - even in the US (where I have personally seen the 'average Joe's' tech knowledge - especially in central and southern states - shockingly much less than that in Canada) it seemed folks avoided it, except the lowest-of-the-low in terms of tech knowledge.

They have, for the years since AOL was known universally as the worst tech company, seemingly fought for that title.

EDIT: Surprised at the downvotes. I'd love to know why.

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> since AOL was known universally as the worst tech company

When it started to fail, it was lamented, but technically? It was exploitive and full of dumb subscribers, but the tech was fine.

> except the lowest-of-the-low in terms of tech knowledge.

Used yahoo for decades, since I was around when it started. Still do, for one email address.

but the tech was fine.

Yep, AOLserver was one of the first “app servers” and it was well regarded. The other PG built his company around it.

Plenty of folks use Yahoo, especially for secondary accounts. Also, when the iPhone launched, the only outside email provider that had 'push' privileges was Yahoo. I remember having a Google > Yahoo email forwarding setup just so I could get my gmail forwarded to me in real-time.

This is a bit off topic from usual discussion but a few years ago a game I play launched, probably around early 2015 or 2016. The dev hosted the game on Yahoo servers, and their incompetency almost killed the game. Their services that dealt with game hosting were constantly going down, grinding to a halt, or just being unwillingly to resolve issues. At the time Yahoo was on its way out of that sector and planning on axing that service. I'm not sure if its closed down yet or not, but thankfully the dev moved over to aws, no problems since then.

What "Yahoo servers" are you referring to? As far as I'm aware, Yahoo never provided cloud compute services -- the only Yahoo game hosting I'm aware of was for their own in-browser games.

I don't know, I just have a vague memory of it. All I know is he used Yahoo in some form to help host his game. Whether it was the code itself or just some services, they were awful.

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