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1. Lycos Search -- Terra Lycos
   Near the peak of the internet bubble in May of 2000 Lycos announced its intent to be acquired by Terra Networks, S.A., the internet arm of the Spanish telecommunications giant, Telefonica, for $5.4 billion. However, by this time the business had peaked and Lycos was being eclipsed by other search giants such as Yahoo, Ask, and Google. The acquisition price represented a nearly 3,000 times return on the initial venture capital investment in Lycos and about 20 times its initial public offering valuation. The transaction closed in October of 2000. The merged company was renamed Terra Lycos yet the Lycos brand was the US franchise. Overseas, the company continued to be known as Terra Networks, S.A.
2. Lycos -- Terra Lycos
   Lycos is a search engine and web portal centered around broadband entertainment content. It began as a search engine research project by Dr. Michael Loren Mauldin of Carnegie Mellon University in 1994. Bob Davis joined the company as its CEO and first employee in 1995. Lycos then enjoyed several years of astounding growth and, in 1999, became the most visited online destination in the world with a global presence in more than 40 countries. Lycos was sold to Terra Networks of Spain in May 2000 for $5.4 billion, forming a new company, Terra Lycos, maintaining its postion as one of the world's largest Internet companies. Shortly after the merger Davis left the company to become a venture capitalist with Highland Capital Partners in Boston.
3. Terraserver -- Aerial Images
   Using the TerraServer site is not difficult. It requires that you locate the site using either the address (street number, street name, city and ZIP code) or geographical features (highways, roads, landmarks, etc.).If you have geographic positioning system (GPS) latitude and longitude coordinates, TerraServer will allow you to input these coordinates and go directly to the location.Some patience is required in using the site's "button" features to navigate in areas featured in the aerial photo, manipulate the scale of the map, toggle between a USGS map and an aerial photo, or obtain latitude and longitude information using the image info button.
4. Terraserver -- Data
   The location of the cache folder is a TerraServer folder at what ever location is specified in the Data Cache item in Tools - Options - File Locations. The default value for the location is %MyDocuments%, so by default each user's files will be stored in the user's own cache folder.
5. Terraserver -- Images
   The TerraServer images are available for viewing free of charge. In addition, SPIN-2 and the USGS are making the images available as high-quality prints and digital files for a modest fee. Using Microsoft Site Server 3.0 Commerce Edition, Aerial Images and the USGS accept credit card orders over the Internet. Microsoft says it derives no income from this service. Microsoft is hoping that the TerraServer database is of interest to general consumers as well as more specialized users in real estate, construction, urban and regional planning, education, environmental services, public safety and government.
6. Terraserver
   Terraserver is the home of the World Imagery Database. At the Terraserver site, you can view satellite images and aerial photos of cities throughout the United States. There are ... images for cities located in other parts of the world. You can search for locations by selecting from a list of famous places or by selecting the "find a spot on earth" option. You do not need to know the longitude or latitude of a location, only the name. You can also look up a map of the area to compare to the satellite images and aerial photos.
7. Lycos -- Lycos Europe
   Terra Lycos is a global Internet group with a presence in 42 countries in 19 languages. The group, which is the result of Terra Networks S.A.'s acquisition of Lycos, Inc. in October 2000, operates some of the most popular Web sites in the United States, Europe, Asia and Latin America, and is the largest access provider in Spain and Latin America.
8. Heavy Gear
   Heavy Gear is a game set in the futuristic world of Terra Nova, a colony world abandoned, then invaded by Earth. Political undercurrents flow through everyone's lives, making the future uncertain. There is a tenuous peace between the polar governments in light of a recent attack on Peace River, though even in times of peace, mistrust runs high between the polar governments.
9. Lycos -- Companies
   Terra Lycos is part of the Telefonica Group, one of the world's leading telecommunications companies. Telefonica is the leading operator in the Spanish and Portuguese speaking markets and its activity is centered mainly on the fixed and mobile telephony businesses with broadband as the key tool for the development of both of these.
10. Aerial Maps -- United States
    Aerial Archives has an extensive collection of historical and current vertical aerial photography and aerial maps of many United States metropolitan areas and a number of cities in Canada and Mexico. In addition, Aerial Archives provides a large selection of satellite photographs, beginning with early imagery acquired by Landsat, to recent, high resolution 60cm imagery acquired by QuickBird, the highest resolution commercial imaging satellite.

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