A lot of the internet’s history took place in Yahoo Groups, and they’re about to disappear.
plans to shut down its 18-year-old platform for forums and email lists, Yahoo Groups, and delete all of its contents on Dec. 14—this Saturday. After that, Yahoo will only maintain the service’s mailing list functions. While Yahoo Groups’ popularity has been dwindling for a while now, the announcement sent the tens of thousands of users who still use the service in a frenzy to save the nearly two decades of old messages, photos, polls, databases, and other material.
“We’re just trying to save our stuff. [Verizon] only gave us 58 days to do this,” said Brenda Fowler, who has been helping to lead the archiving effort with her blog
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