Lycos, the Timex of Dot Coms, Keeps On Ticking

In 2000, it was bought by a Spanish telecom for . . . wait for it . . $12.5 Billion stock swap. They sold it in 2004 for the firesale price of $95M.

Today it was sold by it's Korean owners to an Indian company for $36M

For you kids . . . Lycos was a web portal company like AOL.