Back in the 1990s, before search engines were much good, Yahoo was a popular and useful portal, a directory organizing the great, amorphous mass of websites into something navigable (especially for those who didn’t want to be stuck inside AOL’s bubble). Now Yahoo’s seen as a giant, bumbling monster, gobbling up and wiping out beloved hubs of user-generated content — GeoCities, Flickr, Delicious, the old Usenet boards that became Yahoo Groups, and now Yahoo Answers. Kaitlyn Tiffany traces how it happened. – The Atlantic