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

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

65 points by andrewcurioso 15 years ago | 14 comments

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

andrewcurioso 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?" ;)

jedsmith 15 years ago |

Somebody's Monday:

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

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...

andrewcurioso 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.

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."

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

emp_ 15 years ago |

Touchscreen tablets, 1999

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.

betolive 15 years ago |

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

baddox 15 years ago |

Lycos was still around in 2004?

andrewcurioso 15 years ago | |

Lycos is still around today.