Lycos, Inc. and ClassMates.Com Announce Agreement to Aggressively Link High School Alumni Information into Web Directory

Business Wire, Sept 23, 1999

SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 23, 1999--

Lycos, Inc. (Nasdaq:LCOS), the fastest growing Internet portal and the world's largest online community, today announced an agreement with ClassMates.Com, the world's largest online community of high school alumni, to aggressively link ClassMates.Com's content to the WhoWhere People Finder Web directory service and throughout Lycos' Community Channels.

The annual agreement will provide Lycos users access to ClassMates.Com's helpful information on how to find old high school friends, including a directory of more than 2.5 million registered alumni from more than 30,000 US & Canadian high schools.

ClassMates.Com offers Lycos users a quickly-expanding database of registered alumni that includes e-mail, biographies, and other information that registrants wish to include. The site also offers high school reunion information and a variety of useful people-finding services.

"By teaming with ClassMates.Com, Lycos expands on its current Web directory services and offers a fun and easy way to locate old high school friends and classmates," said Michael Armistead, general manager of Lycos' Mountain View division.

"Most high schools don't have the means for their own alumni associations and lists, so ClassMates.Com delivers a unique resource of high school alumni information to Lycos users," said Randy Conrads, president and CEO of ClassMates.Com.

WhoWhere (http://www.whowhere.lycos.com), provides People Finder services on the Web including e-mail lookups, phone and address lookups, personal homepage lookups and more.

Headquartered in Seattle, ClassMates.Com is the largest high school alumni community on the Internet. With more than 2.5 million members, ClassMates.Com is setting the standard for finding and interacting with your old high school friends on the Net. ClassMates.Com now has active message boards for all of its 30,000 high schools across the country. These boards will serve as precursors to national online reunions. ClassMates.Com has been in business since 1995, breaking monthly internal growth records on a regular basis.

Founded in 1995, Lycos, Inc., is a leading Web media company and one of the most visited hubs on the Internet, reaching one out of every two Web users. Lycos, Inc., offers a unified set of Web sites that attracts a diverse audience by offering a variety of services, including leading Web navigation resources, homepage building, other Web community services, and a comprehensive shopping center.

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