Tripod
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| Website | |
|---|---|
| Name: | Tripod |
| Owner/Maintainer: | Currently owned by Lycos. |
| Dates: | 1994-- |
| Type: | web-hosting service |
| Fandom: | N/A |
| URL: | http://tripod.lycos.com/ |
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Tripod was a website/web-hosting service launched in 1994 that was initially aimed at college students. It offered a simple webpage builder, and became known as a place where users could create free websites; it was a competitor of GeoCities and Angelfire. At one time, it hosted numerous fanfiction websites, both single author pages and multi-author archives. The site was acquired by Lycos in 1998. In 2001, Tripod purged a number of fansites without warning. There are still some fanfiction websites located there[1], but many fans have migrated elsewhere.
- For fannish websites hosted by Tripod, see Category:Tripod
