Even stranger: If you go to www.tripod.com, it redirects to https://www.tripod.lycos.com. Going to https://www.lycos.com, you can see that Lycos, one of several search engines that predated Google, is still around. Here's their about page: https://info.lycos.com/about/company-overview/

Mine's still around altho it looks like I turned it from a The Simpsons fan page in to one sentence https://bartzone.tripod.com/ . And with allowing all scripts, it's >1,000 requests, >10MB of data.

These ad networks on top of ad networks on the oldest IE-compliant code with it's `document.write` fighting it out for eyeballs since 1999. As Lycos' motto says: Battling it out to complete obsolescence and will never give an inch. Go iframe go!

It's the only reason I clicked on this.