tumblr and Yahoo!

Remember Geocities.com? I only used it after Yahoo! bought it and I opened a site in 2000 to complain about my experience with Philips Magnavox when my 5-disc stereo broke while under warranty and they replaced it with a 3-disc changer. Eventually, I created a site dedicated to Kurt Vonnegut when I found that nothing I wanted to see existed. Geocities went bye-bye a few years ago, but now Yahoo! owns Tumblr. I don't understand the acquisition.

What exactly does Yahoo! do? I only ask because I've had my primary email be Yahoo! for the last 16 years. I wonder if their brand has the vibe of email providers who are still around from that period. I cringe when I see aol addresses. I cringe when I see hotmail addresses. Wait... do those still exist, now that they switched to outlook?

I just noticed that hotmail and aol are both associated with "left wing news" organizations which seem to lack stories I find of interest. Then again, I vaguely recall a split with Microsoft and MSNBC and AOL still has their news separate from the Huffington Post. Yahoo! has their own news but they seem to pull from other places on their home domain.

Internet dinosaurs. I wonder if Twitter will ever fall into that category. The facebook fad hasn't met a myspace conclusion, but it's inevitable since old people have migrated there and it's not as cool. I personally found myspace to be better, but everyone ditched it.

Incidentally, I first heard of Tumblr when I was doing an image search to designate folder icons upon my desk top. I like to write stuff, and J has a file titled "D's Ramblings." Google image is cool to use for image searches, but prone to have porn come up in its results. I searched "ramblings." With that said, I originally thought Tumblr was a porn sight.
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