Angelfire is an
Internet service offering free space for web sites. In the past, it was long known for providing advertising-free hosting. (It also offered
medical transcription services). The site was bought by
Mountain View, California-based WhoWhere, which was itself subsequently purchased by the
search engine company
Lycos. As Lycos already offered web page hosting with advertising through its acquisition of
Tripod.com, Angelfire's offering was modified to also have parity with Tripod, including the addition of an increased amount of advertising but also by offering more disk space.
As of 2008, Angelfire continues to operate separately from
Tripod and now includes features such as
blog building and a photo gallery builder. It also supports, for paid members only,
CGI scripts written in
Perl. Until May 2004, Angelfire offered free email (as a cobrand of
Mailcity) at the @angelfire.com domain, but this feature has been replaced by
webmail for premium users only (through
Lycos Domains).
Although Angelfire and Tripod are very much separate sites, they do share much of the same underlying software, such as the blog application. Lycos brands, including both Angelfire and Tripod, were licensed to a company in the
UK, which shut them down. The media announced they were shutting down but neglected to note that they were in no way related to their
U.S. counterparts, resulting in a January 2009 posting by Lycos.
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