Yahoo was a gateway to doing more or less everything you could do on the Internet. With a single account and familiar user experience. You could play games, email, read the news, buy and sell things (stores, auctions, shopping), chat, search, plan travel, share files, have a home page, send money, have a pet (do you remember Yahoo! Mash? neither does anyone else) or find a pet, find somewhere to live, get internet service, listen to music &#x2F; watch music videos, call your mom, etc, etc, etc.<p>In 2004 when I went through employee orientation, the company had a clear goal: be a the top 3 online site in as many categories as possible. When I left in 2011, nobody knew what they wanted to do. Now they don&#x27;t even know how to put a ! after their name!