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Angelfire

Website hosting service

Field	Value
name	Angelfire
url	[www.angelfire.lycos.com](http://www.angelfire.lycos.com)
commercial	No
type	Paid web hosting service
owner	Lycos
screenshot	Angelfire Homepage.png
screenshot_size	250px
caption	A screenshot of Angelfire
launch_date

Angelfire is an Internet 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 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 Free webpages are no longer available to new registrants and have been replaced by paid services.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. which, in turn, was subsequently purchased by the search engine company Lycos on August 11, 1998, for US$133million.

References

Jolly, Jennifer. "TECH NOW: How to make your own website for free".
"About Angelfire". Angelfire.
(1997-10-20). "WhoWhere? to Acquire Angelfire Communications". Angelfire.
(1998-08-11). "Lycos buys WhoWhere?". [[CNN]].
Leadem, Rose. (2016-08-04). "15 Internet Relics We Miss (and Some We Don't)".

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