Yahoo Briefcase to Shut Down March 30

Remember Yahoo’s Briefcase online storage service? Well, if you put some stuff there back in the days of yore, you’ll want to go retrieve it because the service is shutting down on 3/30. After that day, all accounts will be closed and the files deleted. Hey, 30 MB was a big deal 10 years ago.

Yahoo is discontinuing Briefcase because users outgrew it, Yahoo said in a statement. Other services, such as Yahoo Mail and Flickr, offer far greater storage capacity, and the use of Briefcase has fallen in recent years, the company said.

lol...poor yahoo

cant say i remember it

I have all my homework from school still in there. Guess I have to move it now.

I also used it for homework and stuff like that. I guess they couldn't keep up with the times.

Im surprised it stuck around this long....

Originally Posted by ICE_9

I have all my homework from school still in there. Guess I have to move it now.

I think you would enjoy Dropbox. I use it for all of my homework/documents/photos. It's free, and you get 2GB of space which is automatically synchronized between your computer and their service. Plus it acts as a folder on your computer so you never have to open a browser to access your stuff. http://www.getdropbox.com/

Originally Posted by falconman

Im surprised it stuck around this long....

Me too. 30MB of space? Wow.

Why not just increase the storage space instead of shutting down the entire service.. There must be other reasons for this decision.

30 megs... Dang. My first flash drive was 32 megs... I think it still works, I might want to find out what was on it and back it up, lol

My homework was from 2000 anyways. Ya never know when you might need another report or something.

They probably are killing it because after so many years of being uselessly small 99% of the accounts in it are inactive and they don't want to continue having to pay for servers for all the deadwood in any form.