angelfire

     

Angelfire is an Internet venture offering free space for web sites, targete primarily at teens but popular in all demographics. In the past, it was long known for providing advertising-free hosting. (It also offered medical transcription services.) The site was bought by Mountain View, California-based WhoWhere, which was itself subsequently purchased by the search engine company Lycos. As Lycos already offered web page hosting with advertising through its acquisition of Tripod.com, Angelfire's offering was modified to also have parity with Tripod, including the addition of an increasing amount of ads but also by offering more disk space. (This was consistent with competitor offerings, such as GeoCities.)