Angelfire
Encyclopedia
Angelfire is an Internet
service offering free space for web sites. It 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 web site hosting, offering both free and paid memberships. The site was bought by Mountain View, California
-based WhoWhere in 1997, which was itself subsequently purchased by the search engine
company Lycos
in 1998. 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.
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May 2004, Angelfire offered free email (as a cobrand of Mailcity) at the @angelfire.com domain, but this feature has been replaced by webmail for premium users only (through Lycos Domains).
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
.
Although Angelfire and Tripod are separate sites, they 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.
In Angelfire, the creator may use a free service, or a paid package. The free service allows the user to create a home page, such as page.angelfire.com/ as well as create subdirectories, such as page.angelfire.com/newpage/. This enables the user to create sites more advanced than some other free web hosts.
Internet
The Internet is a global system of interconnected computer networks that use the standard Internet protocol suite to serve billions of users worldwide...
service offering free space for web sites. It was founded in 1996 and was originally a combination web site building and medical transcription
Medical transcription
Medical transcription, also known as MT, is an allied health profession, which deals in the process of transcription, or converting voice-recorded reports as dictated by physicians and/or other healthcare professionals, into text format.-History:...
service. Eventually the site dropped the transcription service and focused solely on web site hosting, offering both free and paid memberships. The site was bought by Mountain View, California
Mountain View, California
-Downtown:Mountain View has a pedestrian-friendly downtown centered on Castro Street. The downtown area consists of the seven blocks of Castro Street from the Downtown Mountain View Station transit center in the north to the intersection with El Camino Real in the south...
-based WhoWhere in 1997, which was itself subsequently purchased by the search engine
Search engine
A search engine is an information retrieval system designed to help find information stored on a computer system. The search results are usually presented in a list and are commonly called hits. Search engines help to minimize the time required to find information and the amount of information...
company Lycos
Lycos
Lycos, Inc. is a search engine and web portal established in 1994. Lycos also encompasses a network of email, webhosting, social networking, and entertainment websites.-Corporate history:...
in 1998. As Lycos already offered web page hosting with advertising through its acquisition of Tripod.com
Tripod.com
Tripod.com is a web hosting service owned by Lycos. Originally aiming its services to college students and young adults, it was one of several sites trying to build online communities during the dot-com bubble...
, 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.
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).
As of 2008, Angelfire continues to operate separately from Tripod
Tripod.com
Tripod.com is a web hosting service owned by Lycos. Originally aiming its services to college students and young adults, it was one of several sites trying to build online communities during the dot-com bubble...
and now includes features such as blog
Blog
A blog is a type of website or part of a website supposed to be updated with new content from time to time. Blogs are usually maintained by an individual with regular entries of commentary, descriptions of events, or other material such as graphics or video. Entries are commonly displayed in...
building and a photo gallery builder. It also supports, for paid members only, CGI
Common Gateway Interface
The Common Gateway Interface is a standard method for web servers software to delegate the generation of web pages to executable files...
scripts written in Perl
Perl
Perl is a high-level, general-purpose, interpreted, dynamic programming language. Perl was originally developed by Larry Wall in 1987 as a general-purpose Unix scripting language to make report processing easier. Since then, it has undergone many changes and revisions and become widely popular...
.
Although Angelfire and Tripod are separate sites, they 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.
In Angelfire, the creator may use a free service, or a paid package. The free service allows the user to create a home page, such as page.angelfire.com/ as well as create subdirectories, such as page.angelfire.com/newpage/. This enables the user to create sites more advanced than some other free web hosts.