It’s natural to feel a bit of regret when you miss a loved one’s birthday. Here at Gizmodo, we’re saying happy belated 30th birthday to Yahoo, the website that most of us haven’t logged into since we got real jobs after the Great Recession. Even though Yahoo is a shell of what it once was at the height of when webpages ruled supreme—no matter how many times it attempts to rebrand—those of us who grew up on the internet can’t deny the impact of its existence all that time ago.
Sadly, I wiped my Yahoo account off the face of the planet during the Great Data Breach of 2013. But I vividly remember my time on the website throughout the two decades it existed in my life. It’s a pity the younger generations will never be able to experience the best things about Yahoo firsthand.
