Saturday, November 30, 2013

Yahoo Users Anonymous: A Transcript

<p>Scene: A Silicon Valley church basement. Folding chairs, coffee, cigarettes tucked behind ears. Jon EVANS, a tall man with a shaved head and an Arsenal FC T-shirt, steps forward to the podium. He has a slight Canadian accent.</p><p>Jon: Hi, my name's Jon, and I'm a Yahoo! user.</p><p>Room, in unison: Hi, Jon!</p><p>Jon: I guessI mean, this is so embarrassing, obviouslyI guess my story's like a lot of yours. I got into Yahoo! when I was young, because back then it seemed really cool. If only I had known then what I know now. But I went for a six-month trip across Africa and Yahoo was the only web-mail service that could access my Unix shell account via POP. Gmail didn't exist yet, Hotmail was a joke, and I was sending friends emails from Cameroon and Zimbabwe, they were amazed, they were jealous. So I got hooked. And then</p><p><a href="http://techcrunch.com/2013/11/30/yahoo-users-anonymous-a-transcript/">Keep reading...</a></p>

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