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I remember in the late-90s portals were all the rage, everyone wanted to be the one-stop shop for all their users browsing needs.



Absolutely. Yahoo! used to be a particular favourite of mine. Search, email, chat and games. A great place to hang out and weirdly not that far removed from Facebook. Sure the UI has evolved quite a bit but it's similiar basic services.


For a decent chunk of time maybe 1/4 of all internet users thought AOL was the internet.




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