Geocities was shuttered before "young people" today started using the Internet (and was dying for years before that). I also doubt most 0-22 year olds today ever played Yahoo! Chess or Yahoo! games -- they were popular with people my age and slightly younger, about a decade ago.

Tumblr was an acquisition, and a very expensive one, which would not have been made by non-Mayer person following my strategy. Young people do not, generally, use Flickr (at least in the US); they use Instagram or Vine/etc.

(In 2005, what Yahoo! should have done was different than what Yahoo! should have done in 2013 -- in 2005, it still had a reasonable array of options. By 2013, the olds strategy was probably the most viable operating strategy, although even then, massive cost cutting and redistribution of Alibaba winnings to shareholders might have been the most preferred outcome.)

> Geocities was shuttered before "young people" today started using the Internet (and was dying for years before that).

Yeah. Because young people in 2005 are now like 20 to 30 somethings today. That was 11 years ago man. A 35 year old today who was really into Geocities back in its prime was a 24-year old young person (although Geocities prime was really closer to early 2001 or 2002).

In any case, I fondly remember the awful Neopet communities with awful gifs and everything that I used to browse on Geocities. Anyone remember "Webrings" ??

Now I admit, 2005ish was when Xanga and MySpace started to take over (Facebook was a "college" thing, and not really relevant to high-schoolers at that time). But Geocities was still relevant at that time.

> Yahoo was incredibly relevant with the young crowd in 2005.

As a college freshman in 04-05, I have no idea what you're talking about.

It could be true, but it certainly isn't obvious.

Yahoo! Chess was really fun back in 2005. Lots of blitz games and trolling sore losers who lost won positions on time. These days chess sites are too civilized to be fun.