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

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65 pointsandrewcurioso14 comments

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

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

Somebody's Monday:

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

Awesome find!

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

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.

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."

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!

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

Touchscreen tablets, 1999

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?

Timing and perfect set of early users.

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

Lycos was still around in 2004?

Lycos is still around today.

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