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for the webmail service that became Yahoo Mail Rocketmail Image Regulus missile.png thumb The SSM N 8 Regulus cruise missile was used for one attempt to deliver mail. Rocket mail is the delivery of mail by rocket or missile . The rocket would land by deploying an internal parachute upon arrival. It has been attempted by various organizations in many different countries, with varying levels of success. It has never become widely seen as being a viable option for delivering mail, due to the cost of the schemes and numerous failures. The collection of Philately philatelic material stamps used for and depicting rocket mail is a specialist branch of aerophilately known as astrophilately . Pioneers Friedrich Schmiedl launched the first rocket mail V 7, Experimental Rocket 7 with 102 pieces of mail between Sch ckl and Sankt Radegund bei Graz St. Radegund , Austria . Schmiedl also launched rockets on 21 April 1931 from the Austrian town of Sch ckl to Kaite Rinne with mail and a spectrograph. After the April flight, 79 specially printed postcards marked in German with Flown in Instrument Rocket bear stamps from the flights. ref F. Schmiedl, Essays on the History of Rocketry and Astronautics , NASA Converance Publication 2014, Vol.II, p 109 ref Gerhard Zucker experimented in the 1930s with powder rockets similar to firework s. Between 1931 and 1933, he travelled throughout Germany displaying his rocket and claiming that it could be used to deliver mail. After moving to the United Kingdom , Zucker attempted to convince the General Post Office United Kingdom General Post Office that postal ... and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid . RocketMail was the name for one of the first major, free webmail services. For a brief time, RocketMail battled with Hotmail for the number one spot among free webmail services. Yahoo acquired RocketMail in 1997, and assimilated it into Yahoo Mail , which is essentially the old RocketMail Webmail system. See also XCOR EZ Rocket delivered mail in 2005 References ... more details
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Infobox company company name Janrain Inc. company type Private Startup company slogan User Management Platform for the Social Web foundation 2005 location city Portland, OR location country USA products Janrain Engage formerly RPX , Janrain Capture, Janrain Federate homepage http www.janrain.com www.janrain.com Janrain Inc. is a privately held technology company based in Portland, Oregon . Janrain offers software as a service solutions for commercial businesses and websites to connect their sites to the social web. Janrain s flagship product enables a website s users to register or login with their existing social network accounts and share content from the site or their activities with friends on multiple social networks. The company has roots in the OpenID community that date back to its inception in 2005. History Janrain was founded in 2005 by Larry Drebes , who previously founded Four 11 Corporation with RocketMail as its flagship product and Desktop.com . The company developed schtuff.com, a wiki hosting service which would later be acquired by PBWiki in 2007. ref http www.prleap.com pr 67716 PBwiki announces acquisition of Schtuff, the popular wiki service . Retrieved on 3 August 2009. ref In 2005, Brad Fitzpatrick of LiveJournal developed the OpenID protocol. Shortly thereafter, Janrain became an active participant in the OpenID community and developed the open source libraries which today power the majority of the websites accepting OpenID logins. ref cite web url http lists.danga.com pipermail yadis 2006 March 002304.html title OpenID Simple Registration Information Exchange date 2006 03 15 accessdate 2008 03 20 first Josh last Hoyt work Danga Interactive ref The company also was involved in forming the OpenID Foundation, an organization seeking to advance the market for the technology. ref name foundation cite web url http openid.net foundation title OpenID Foundation date 2007 06 01 accessdate 2008 03 20 work OpenID Foundation author OpenID Board of Direc ... more details
TOC right Timeline of major events for Yahoo . 1990s 1994 January 1994 Jerry Yang entrepreneur Jerry Yang and David Filo create Jerry s Guide to the World Wide Web while studying at Stanford University . April 1994 Jerry s Guide to the World Wide Web is renamed Yahoo 1995 March 1995 Yahoo is Incorporation business incorporated . 1995 Ziff Davis Inc. launches the magazine Yahoo Internet Life , initially as ZD Internet Life . The magazine was meant to accompany and complement the website. 1996 April 12, 1996 Yahoo has Initial public offering , closing at 33.00, up 270 from the IPO price, after peaking at 43.00 for the day. 1997 October 8, 1997 Yahoo acquires Four11 , and Four11 s Rocketmail service becomes Yahoo Mail . 1998 June 8, 1998 Yahoo acquires Viaweb , co founded by Paul Graham computer programmer Paul Graham , which becomes Yahoo Store. October 12, 1998 Yahoo acquires direct marketing company Yoyodyne Entertainment, Inc. ref http www.wired.com news business 0,1367,15555,00.html http www.wired.com news business 0,1367,15555,00.html Wired.com ref 1999 January 28, 1999 Yahoo acquires Geocities . April 1, 1999 Yahoo acquires Broadcast.com . 2000s 2000 January 3, 2000 Yahoo stocks close at an all time high of 475.00 pre split price a share. The day before, it hit an intra day high of 500.13 pre split price . January 19, 2000 At the height of the Dot com bubble Dot com tech bubble , shares in Yahoo Japan became the first stocks in Japanese history to trade at over 100,000,000, reaching a price of 101.4 million yen 962,140 at that time . ref http www.internetnews.com ent news print.php 289851 http www.internetnews.com ent news print.php 289851 Internetnews ref February 7, 2000 Yahoo.com was brought to a halt for a few hours as it was the victim of a distributed denial of service attack DDoS . ref http news.bbc.co.uk 1 hi sci tech 635444.stm http news.bbc.co.uk 1 hi sci tech 635444.stm news.bbc.co.uk ref ref http news.com.com 2100 1023 236621.html?legacy cnet http ne ... more details
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