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dhaya
Nice! Look also at the "web launch" order form: http://docs.yahoo.com/docs/pr/orderform.html
adlpz
Amazing, it's great how something so new (online advertising on a search engine) can be already so old. I mean, looks like you had to mail that thing with a $1000 check.

Crazy!

leothekim
The maps link around "3400 Central Expressway" is broken. BETTER REPORT IT.
marban
Why exactly are these reminiscent pieces other than verifying that the past really existed getting upvotes lately?
ancarda
Probably because it's interesting? I never saw the web in its infancy like this. I've spent hours browsing archive.org before to see what the early days of the internet was like back then.
joshuamerrill
Note the Yahoo logo image map. :)
laumars
I'm so glad the days of image maps are gone!
hyperberry
Yeah, I thought the image map was hilarious.

The second link in the menu, "Cool" goes through at least 4 redirects before winding up back on the www.yahoo.com home page :)

alanbyrne
Wow, that comment made me feel old.
JeremyMorgan
As someone who first got on the internet in 1995 at the age of 17, I know that feel.
lanstein
me neither - I used lynx ;)
United857
How often do you see any web startup these days post a phone number, let alone a physical address?
marban
if you're afraid of associating your contact data with your startup you're either running an illegal site or you're ashamed of your own idea.
hnha
I am not posting my contact data on a website of mine because I do not want my real life social circle to know about one of my online circles. it is a simple matter of privacy. your comment is a strawmen or how you call that. there are many more possible reasonings than your two.
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dangrossman
Or you provide support some other way than by phone. Plenty of consumer startups large and small don't have an easily reachable phone number on their sites.
scjody
I'm pretty impressed that the links on the top bar still take you (via redirects, sure) to relevant places.
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calebegg
I love the redirect sequence on the "Cool" button:

    $ curl -I -L http://www.yahoo.com/Entertainment/Cool_Links/ | grep Location

    Location: http://dir.yahoo.com/Entertainment/cool_links/
    Location: http://dir.yahoo.com/entertainment/cool_links/
    Location: http://picks.yahoo.com/
    Location: http://buzz.yahoo.com/
    Location: http://www.yahoo.com
eterm
A shame it doesn't end in https redirection.
robbyking
I'm impressed they used tableless HTML!
haroldp
Even in 1998, you couldn't contact their postmaster.
kalleboo
Took me a while to notice that this wasn't on archive.org. Are these still up as an oversight? If so, that's pretty impressive that their server infrastructure hasn't changed radically in so many years.
coopaq
needs body style { background: #ccc }
demetrius
As far as I remember, it was a feature, not a bug (at least I remember reading something like that back then... can’t find any referenes right now): the idea was, Yahoo worked well with any light background colour.
Joeri
Don't you mean body bgcolor=silver?
lmm
The quality of the image notwithstanding (and there were good reasons for that with the bandwidth of the time), this page looks remarkably good, and holds up far better than sites half its age. Just goes to show yet again that with design less really is more.
Aldipower
That is a really clean and clear page to me. There is only relevant information with a small amount of irritation on it. And it works for mobile too! :)
ry0ohki
I remember actually calling Yahoo about something (I think web hosting?) I remember I thought that was a huge problem with Google (and still do) that there is no way to call them.
suyash
Note: Office Hours (8:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. PST)

Office closed probably from 12:00 p.m - 12:30 p.m for lunch break :P