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By Jay Rossiter, SVP, Cloud Platform Group

At Yahoo, focus is an important part of accomplishing our mission: to make the world’s daily habits more entertaining and inspiring. To achieve this focus, we have sunset more than 60 products and services over the past two years, and redirected those…

I am genuinely, not in the least ironically, nostalgic about the end of an internet era. I remember those first years on the Web when the Yahoo Directory was the only way to find out what was happening online. There were certain categories in the directory I knew so well that when I logged in and saw that yellow “New!” image next to a category I almost got heart palpitations.

Farewell, Yahoo Directory. Even though I have used you in fifteen years, you served us well in our hour of need. We will always remember you with great affection.