Re:Google Circles? Meh. Here's Lycos Circles (2004)
by bayareaguy on Tuesday March 15, 2011 @12:25AM
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It looks like it did. The internet archive crawled bits of Lycos Circles from 2005 to 2009[1] as well as the original eCircles all the way back to 1998[2]
1- http://waybackmachine.org/*/http://circles.lycos.com
2- http://waybackmachine.org/*/http://ecircles.com