Google Circles? Meh. Here's Lycos Circles (2004)

http://info.lycos.com/releases.php?id=1550

by andrewcurioso • 15 years ago

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emp_• 15 years ago

Touchscreen tablets, 1999

zach• 15 years ago

Awesome find!

I'm sure the Appleseed Project evangelist will drop by to mention they were also founded in 2004 in 3, 2, 1...

andrewcurioso3• 15 years ago

Thanks. I used to work for Lycos. The Circles project was before my time but it came up in conversation now and then. So when I heard Google Circles it was the first thing that came to mind.

betolive• 15 years ago

or the never announced Windows Live Circles http://www.freepatentsonline.com/y2009/0132365.html

nshanske• 15 years ago

I was very much involved in the Lycos Circles product and sent Andrew the link yesterday. If I had any hair left, I'd have been pulling it out yesterday. Maybe it's time to add Lycos Circles to my LinkedIn profile

andrewcurioso3• 15 years ago

To be fair, Neal. You did send me the link _after_ I IMed you saying, "Hey, didn't Lycos have a product called Circles?" ;)

methodin• 15 years ago

Did this ever actually launch? I don't recall ever hearing about it although I probably wouldn't have remembered anyway. I also didn't realize lycos was still around!

bayareaguy• 15 years ago

It looks like it did. The internet archive crawled bits of Lycos Circles from 2005 to 2009[1] as well as the original eCircles all the way back to 1998[2]

1- http://waybackmachine.org/*/http://circles.lycos.com

2- http://waybackmachine.org/*/http://ecircles.com

grishick• 15 years ago

This quote sounds funny today: "Unlike other social networking sites, Lycos Circles focuses on helping users to stay connected, share content and manage relationships with people they already know as well as find new people who share their interests."

jedsmith• 15 years ago

Somebody's Monday:

Hm, what's this? A huge traffic spike to ... there? I still administer that?

sebkomianos• 15 years ago

Am I the only one still trying to figure out (and still failing to understand) what facebook did SO right to become what it is today?

revorad• 15 years ago

Timing and perfect set of early users.

baddox• 15 years ago

Lycos was still around in 2004?

andrewcurioso3• 15 years ago

Lycos is still around today.

Google Circles? Meh. Here's Lycos Circles (2004)

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