Yahoo! Answers was also one of the channels I frequent a lot.īut alas, good things must come to an end. Yahoo! Messenger was the de facto chat service and the free chat-to-SMS feature was a lifesaver. Yahoo! Groups had the most number of users from the Philippines and so did Yahoo! Games (anybody still remember playing online chess and scrabble with their Yahoo! friends back in 2002?). Everyone has Yahoo! Mail back then, some of them still being used until this day. Many might not see Yahoo! as their preferred search engine but a lot of the services and apps made by this Web 1.0 giant were a Filipino favorite. Here are some great tech companies that thrived in the Philippines and their eventual demise. But, alas, the love affair doesn’t always last forever. Why else are we considered the Social Media Capital of the World?Ī lot of tech companies consider the Philippines their home or, at least, a great place to gain massive adaption. Despite being a 3rd-world country, we’re always considered early adaptors or heavy users.
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