Wired News staffers suffered for years under the reign of Lycos before Cond Nast bought them this summer and reunited them with Wired Magazine (whose offices were, at the time of purchase, across the hall). Michael Calore of Wired News says:

We had a little party at Wired. We got together with the magazine folks and tore down the Lycos sign that's been hanging outside the Wired News office door since the Conde Nast acquisition.

Then we shattered it with a hammer.

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Above: Wired Digital general manager (and Gawker Media alum) Kourosh Karimkhany. Below: Shattered memories of a dark time.

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Photos by Michael Calore [Flickr]
Other broken stuff from Lycos: Lycos can kill morale with a coffee mug [Valleywag]
And others: Exclusive leak: Editor says Lycos will shutter Webmonkey [Valleywag]