Angelfire is an
Internet
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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
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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 Free webpages are no longer available to new registrants and have been replaced by paid services.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.
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
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Mountain V ...
–based WhoWhere on October 20, 1997, which, in turn, was subsequently purchased by the search engine
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company Lycos on August 11, 1998, for US$133million.
See also
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References
External links
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About Angelfire / History of site page
{{Lycos
Internet properties established in 1996
Web hosting
Web 1.0