Yahoo! Groups
Defunct collection of online discussion boards (created 2001; closed 2020) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Yahoo! Groups was a free-to-use system of electronic mailing lists offered by Yahoo!.
Type of site | Electronic mailing lists and Internet forums |
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Dissolved | December 15, 2020; 3 years ago (2020-12-15) |
Owner | Yahoo! |
URL | Archived official website at the Wayback Machine (archive index) |
Commercial | Yes |
Launched | January 30, 2001; 23 years ago (2001-01-30)[1] |
Current status | Defunct |
Prior to February 2020, Yahoo! Groups was one of the world's largest collections of online discussion boards. It allowed members to subscribe to various groups, read subscribed discussions online, view and share photos, files and bookmarks within a group, access a group calendar, create polls for group members, and receive email notifications of new discussion topics. Some groups were simply announcement boards, to which only the group moderators could post, while others were discussion forums. Depending on each group's settings, membership could be open to everyone or only to invited or approved people.
On February 1, 2020, Yahoo! removed online access to discussions and all other features except simple membership management, essentially turning all groups into mailing lists, and on October 13, 2020, it announced that Yahoo Groups would shut down completely on December 15, 2020.[2][3]