{"id":45585,"date":"2014-09-29T15:21:27","date_gmt":"2014-09-29T21:21:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/09\/29\/yahoo-abandons-the-hierarchical-internet.html"},"modified":"2014-10-13T14:50:31","modified_gmt":"2014-10-13T20:50:31","slug":"yahoo-abandons-the-hierarchical-internet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/09\/29\/yahoo-abandons-the-hierarchical-internet.html","title":{"rendered":"Yahoo abandons the hierarchical Internet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>That&#39;s how they got started &#8212; what the name actually means (Yet Another Hierarchical Officious Oracle) &#8212; but Yahoo will be getting rid of its web directory shortly.<\/p>\n<p>Which prompts a bit of nostalgia, but, honestly, when&#39;s the last time I visited that hiearchy? (Several years ago, at least.)<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"sm2wpreshared\">Originally shared by <a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101083456815352083930'>+Les Jenkins<\/a>:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>That&#39;s kind of sad. I can easily recall adding my anime websites to Yahoo back in the day. Not that it&#39;s original directory is anywhere near as useful in this day and age of search engines, but still&#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"sm2wp\"><p>\n<a style='display:inline;' href='http:\/\/arstechnica.com\/information-technology\/2014\/09\/yahoo-killing-off-yahoo-after-20-years-of-hierarchical-organization\/'><br \/>\n<img src='https:\/\/lh4.googleusercontent.com\/proxy\/KfX6ZCDFdhXJra07tLp7X9tVlfu5KRMkZV-VBGFSZ2PQcozzEfsbBNaMATATa1XE7CP4hdFqH99HImUBVPl2z-sRMObJNw5c5qMIybhBPeo2tK5W2QQ4=w506-h303-p' border='0' \/><br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\n<span style='font-size:large;'><a href='http:\/\/arstechnica.com\/information-technology\/2014\/09\/yahoo-killing-off-yahoo-after-20-years-of-hierarchical-organization\/'>Yahoo killing off Yahoo after 20 years of hierarchical organization<\/a><\/span><br \/>\nThe Yahoo Directory will be retired at the end of the year.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style='font-size:small;'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101083456815352083930\/posts\/cSrwdXkqjch'>View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>That&#39;s how they got started &#8212; what the name actually means (Yet Another Hierarchical Officious Oracle) &#8212; but Yahoo will be getting rid of its web directory shortly. Which prompts a bit of nostalgia, but, honestly, when&#39;s the last time I visited that hiearchy? (Several years ago, at least.) Originally shared by +Les Jenkins: That&#39;s &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/09\/29\/yahoo-abandons-the-hierarchical-internet.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Yahoo abandons the hierarchical Internet&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,3,108],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45585","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-blogging","category-history"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3784,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2003\/03\/28\/bit_rot.html","url_meta":{"origin":45585,"position":0},"title":"Bit Rot","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 28-Mar-03 7:36am","format":false,"excerpt":"Some people blog to rant about things, and thus get it out of their system. 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