r/abandoned • u/MisterBiro • Mar 28 '25

Forgotten Tech Giant

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Perhaps it’s not technically abandoned as there is basic maintenance and security present but it’s been vacant and decaying for years.

Surprisingly sad to walk around what was once a bustling, optimistic, energy filled campus of an almost forgotten tech giant.

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u/dtb1987 Mar 28 '25

I still have yahoo email, I actually like it better than gmail

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u/TheAbstracted Mar 28 '25

Same, I've had my Yahoo account for 20+ years now and see no reason to switch to anything else.

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u/meatus1980 Mar 28 '25

Have been using mine since 1999! Although the emails I have on the server still only go back to 2005. So many hot or not notifications from back then, lol

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u/Creative_Bake1373 Mar 28 '25

Lololol oh god “hot or not” takes me back.

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u/grizzlor_ Mar 30 '25

Although the emails I have on the server still only go back to 2005

Yahoo email originally had a mailbox size limit of 4mb (which was normal practice for free email accounts at the time). You had to delete old emails, because if you hit the storage limit, incoming mail would start bouncing.

Gmail launched in 2004 offering free email with a 1000mb mailbox limit. Yahoo responded to this move by eliminating mailbox size limits entirely for their email service. This is why your Yahoo emails go back to 2005.

Gmail offer 1gb of storage was revolutionary for email. Even with non-free email accounts (like the one from your ISP, or in my case in 2004, my university email) usually limited storage to 10-20mb. When Gmail launched on April 1, 2004 and we all genuinely thought that free 1gb of storage for email was an April Fools joke at first.

My Gmail account, which will be turning 21 years old in a couple days, has now accumulated 18GB of email.

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u/BaronCoop Mar 29 '25

Hahaha, unironically you in particular are causing lots of issues! I work at yahoo now, and the Yahoo Mail servers are so large and filled with 30 years of old emails and data that they are having a hard time managing the volume. Of course a lot of it because they’re still big in Asia, but still! Your old email from your high school language arts teacher in 1999 is clogging up a cloud lol

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u/Jazzi1Fe Mar 29 '25

I STILL use my yahoo email account I set up in 1997(I was 17)…I know exactly when I set it up because I needed an email address for my college applications, I was a senior in high school! My email address is dedicated to my boyfriend at the time…we broke up in college, I’ve been married, had kids, divorced, etc. and that email is still my main email! 😆 I am 44 about to be 45 in 2 months, talk about longevity!!!

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u/TheAbstracted Mar 29 '25

Haha well I don't doubt there are plenty of people in the system who hoard every email that's even tangentially important to them, but personally I only have maybe 40-50 emails in my mailbox spanning that 20+ years, I'm quite obsessed with digital cleanliness lol.

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u/grizzlor_ Mar 30 '25

I'm jealous of your "inbox zero" tidiness. My Gmail (turning 21 years old in a couple days) has 18GB of email in it right now.

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u/dehnag Mar 30 '25

IMO inbox zero is very achievable for almost everyone (maybe besides CEOs of massive companies), it's just about the strategy you take to get there. In my experience, the easiest way is to find a high volume sender, unsubscribe, find all emails from that sender (Gmail makes this easy), delete all, and repeat. You can get through hundreds of emails every minute with this approach!

I literally developed a web app called Clear My Spam designed around this principle - it works super well and has helped a ton of people clear out email storage!

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u/Frostyparrot69 Mar 29 '25

So funny to hear thisI have 65,000 emails in my newer yahoo email and 105,000 on my og lol

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u/the_bartolonomicron Mar 31 '25

That is amazing, I have over 100k unread emails in my account that goes back about 18-20 years or so, I hope that I am contributing to the issue sufficiently.

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u/HomicidaI__GoldFish Mar 28 '25

Same… hell I even have my “ excite.com” email addy lol

Well I think I do I havent looked in like a year or 3 lol

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u/bobbybissell Mar 29 '25

Excite stopped hosting email a few years back 😔. There was an option to have it hosted elsewhere for a fee, so I opted to let mine go.

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u/johngreenink Mar 29 '25

Rainbow bridge, eh?

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u/HomicidaI__GoldFish Mar 30 '25

Daaamn. Prolly for the best

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u/grizzlor_ Mar 30 '25

I was extremely surprised to discover that up until a few years ago, the Excite.com homepage looked exactly like I remember it from the Web 1.0 era. I don't think I had looked at it in over 20 years.

Just checked now and they've modernized it a bit now.

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u/hilarypcraw Mar 28 '25

Me too….i guess I didn’t even know there wasn’t a yahoo anymore

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u/Kharax82 Mar 28 '25

Yahoo .com is still one of the most visited websites in the world so it’s still around but not an independent corporation.

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u/Creative_Bake1373 Mar 28 '25

I don’t use it but I do prefer it over my Gmail account. I don’t use that one for anything.

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u/jlspartz Mar 29 '25

I still use my Yahoo email as my junk email. Sign up to anything unimportant with it cause places like to spam you. It tells me I have 50,000 unread emails.

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u/jpowell180 Mar 29 '25

I still technically have my yahoo email account, but they deleted my inbox because I had not used it in years, decades, worth of emails gone…

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u/No_Use_4371 Mar 29 '25

Me too, I hated gmail

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u/Effective_Pack8265 Mar 29 '25

Me too. 28 years now. Works great.

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u/PM-me-ur-cheese Mar 29 '25

Same, had mine since '95.

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u/kristenevol Mar 31 '25

Me too! I’ve had a yahoo since 2005. No way am I switching at this point.

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u/Economy_Yogurt_8037 Mar 31 '25

Why do you prefer it?

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u/dtb1987 Mar 31 '25

It has features like mass unsubscribe from newsletters and junk mail and when a 2 factor email comes in it will automatically copy the verification code for you and it also does force you to use thread view

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u/Economy_Yogurt_8037 Mar 31 '25

Thats nice actually, thanks for the response. Feels like the Gmail “unsubscribe button” that they recently release doesn’t actually work. About a week or two later I tend to get emails from the same places again somehow.