14 Facts About Lycos

Lycos, Inc, is a web search engine and web portal established in 1994, spun out of Carnegie Mellon University.

Lycos encompasses a network of email, web hosting, social networking, and entertainment websites.

Lycos is based in Waltham, Massachusetts, and is a subsidiary of Kakao.

Lycos is a university spin-off that began in May 1994 as a research project by Michael Loren Mauldin of Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh.

Lycos Inc was formed with approximately US$2 million in venture capital funding from CMGI.

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Lycos enjoyed several years of growth during the 1990s and became the most visited online destination in the world in 1999, with a global presence in more than 40 countries.

Lycos started offering e-mail services in October 1997, the same year it became one of the first profitable Internet businesses in the world.

Lycos Europe was a joint venture between Lycos and the Bertelsmann transnational media corporation, but it has always been a distinct corporate entity.

Lycos was one of the most popular websites on the internet, ranking 8th in 1997, and peaking at 4th in both 1999 and 2001.

Lycos moved away from being a search-centric portal and toward a community destination for broadband entertainment content.

In November 2006, Lycos began to roll out applications centered on social media, including its video application, Lycos Cinema, that featured simultaneous watch and chat functionality.

Lycos MIX allowed users to create playlists where other users could add video comments and chat in real-time.

In May 2012, Lycos announced the appointment of former employee Rob Balazy as CEO of Media division of Lycos.

In June 2015, Lycos announced a pair of wearable devices, called Band and Ring.