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• 2010 cjb.net — cjb.net handed out free yourname.cjb.net subdomains that redirected to your real homepage url, plus free email aliases. if your geocities page was at
• 2010 Yonja — yonja was the first dominant turkish-language social network. founded by kerim baran in san francisco on 1 february 2003, it ran with an english-only
• 2010 Disaboom — disaboom was the us social network for people with disabilities. founded in september 2006 in lone tree, colorado by dr. j. glen house with co-founder
• 2010 Quechup — idate corporation, a las vegas web shop, launched quechup as a small social network with a "check for contacts" button that read the whole address boo
• 2010 Zingy — zingy was the manhattan ringtone startup that fabrice grinda ran up to 200 million dollars in sales inside three years. it launched in 2001, cornered
• 1 Jan 2010 Dungeon Runners — ncsoft's early free-to-play experiment. a diablo-shaped mmo with a self-parody streak and a $4.99 optional membership tier. lasted two and a half year
• 2010 Nokia MOSH — mosh was nokia's pre-ovi attempt at a user-driven mobile content hub. audio, images, games, java midlets, videos, all uploaded by users with no screen
• 1 Jan 2010 Metaplace — metaplace was a platform that let ordinary people build their own virtual worlds in a browser, made by raph koster, the designer behind ultima online
• 2010 yfly — a social network for american teenagers, launched by nick lachey in 2006 with a wall of celebrity accounts and a heavy layer of safety features. it wa
• 2010 Araby.com — araby.com was maktoob's attempt at a search engine that actually understood arabic instead of treating it as a foreign string. it launched in septembe
• 2010 Pipex — peter dawe started pipex in 1990 as the public ip exchange, selling internet access to british companies at a point when the academic network was the
• 2010 Jippii — saunalahti was a finnish internet provider assembled out of a dozen smaller ones, and in 1999 it opened a portal that became the largest web destinati
• 2010 Xbox Live Vision — xbox live vision was a small usb camera that clipped to the top of a television and mostly took your photograph. thirty nine dollars ninety nine bough
• 2010 Toshiba Libretto — toshiba shipped the libretto 20 in japan on 17 april 1996, a full windows pc that weighed 840 grams and fit in a coat pocket, years before anything el
• 2010 Sony Memory Stick — sony launched the memory stick in october 1998 and then spent a decade making sure its own cameras and handhelds would take nothing else. the format w
• 2010 Sirius Stiletto — a satellite radio you could carry, running linux underneath and a portable .net runtime on top, with wi-fi as a fallback for when the sky was blocked
• 2010 VCR Plus+ — a number between one and eight digits long, sitting in the corner of a newspaper listing, encoded the channel and the start time and the length of a p
• 2010 Intel Turbo Memory — one gigabyte of nand flash on a little card inside the laptop, sitting between the hard disk and windows vista, promising faster boots and a disk that
• 2010 nARTBOX (엔아트박스) — a korean stationery chain spent the first decade of the 2000s running a website where you sent animated greeting cards starring the characters printed
• 2010 Freesurf — claranet paid one symbolic euro for freesurf on 4 june 2007 and had the company dissolved within a year. the service had opened on 19 april 1999 as th
• 2010 RichCopy — ken tamaru first built this at microsoft in 2001, and it reached the rest of us in the spring of 2009, when technet magazine ran it as that month's fr
• 2010 YouAre.TV — be seen, said the logo. youare.tv launched in january 2006 into the same twelve months as every other video startup, and tried to win on taste rather
• Jan 2010 Symantec Online Backup — february 2008 to january 2010, and no announcement at either end of the second date. symantec launched a business backup service on its protection net
• 2 Jan 2010 rssCloud — dave winer registered the domain in july 2009 and wrote on the front page, great domain name, don't you think. the idea was older than that: the cloud
• 3 Jan 2010 Macteens — on 3 january 2010 the site went offline so that it could be rebuilt. the status blog set up to chronicle the rebuild managed four posts, the last of t
• 6 Jan 2010 Meridian 59 — meridian 59 was the first commercial 3D graphical MMORPG, launched 7 october 1996 by archetype interactive under 3DO's publishing label. it predated u
• 6 Jan 2010 Chromehounds — for three and a half years the neroimus war ran on sega's servers, a territorial campaign fought by squads of player-built mechs over a map that chang
• Jan 2010 Nokia Mobile Web Server — nokia research center ported apache to symbian, called the project raccoon, and in june 2007 put the result out through beta labs so an ordinary n95 c
• 12 Jan 2010 Yahoo! Go — yahoo go was the version of yahoo you got on a phone in 2006. mail, flickr, onesearch, weather, finance, all behind one j2me jar or one windows mobile
• 21 Jan 2010 Crispy Gamer — in january 2010 a board of directors decided that a games magazine with a million readers a month was worth less than the ad network attached to it, a
• 27 Jan 2010 Sun Microsystems — the silicon valley brand that built java and a long list of other infrastructure you have used without thinking about who wrote it. founded february 1
• Jan 2010 KartOO — kartoo was the french visual meta-search engine that ran from 2001 to january 2010. results came back as a swf-rendered map of linked blobs, not a lis
• 31 Jan 2010 Northwest Airlines — the last flight under the northwest code was 2470 from los angeles to las vegas on 31 january 2010, and by the time it landed the reservation systems
• 1 Feb 2010 Yoonew — two mit sloan students turned the price of a world series ticket into a derivatives problem and then sold the answer to sports fans. you bought a cont
• 1 Feb 2010 Forterra Systems — a defense contractor bought the technology on 1 february 2010, took about twelve of the engineers with it, and that was the end of the company. forter
• 2 Feb 2010 Windows Mobile — windows mobile was the pocket-pc-era microsoft mobile os, launched april 19 2000 as pocket pc 2000 on a windows ce 3.0 kernel. it peaked at 42 percent
• 2 Feb 2010 Project Darkstar — oracle closed the 7.4 billion dollar sun acquisition on 27 january 2010, and within a week a sun engineer posted on the project darkstar forum that th
• 3 Feb 2010 Yahoo! HotJobs — yahoo hotjobs was a us labor market product. turkish jobs ran through kariyer.net and yenibiris and later linkedin. yahoo paid 436 million for hotjobs
• 11 Feb 2010 RedOctane — activision paid ninety-nine point nine million dollars in 2006 for a company that had started by renting games through the mail and then moved into da
• 15 Feb 2010 Maemo — maemo was the linux distribution nokia built for its internet tablet line starting in november 2005 with the nokia 770. four hardware generations ship
• 18 Feb 2010 Torrents.ru — torrents.ru was the largest bittorrent tracker in the russian-speaking world, open from 18 september 2004 and holding four million registered accounts
• 19 Feb 2010 Haloscan — haloscan was the third-party comment widget that lived underneath every blogspot post for most of the 2000s, in the long stretch before blogger.com sh
• 19 Feb 2010 On2 Technologies — a company almost nobody could name wrote the code that played video on your computer for eighteen years. it started as the duck corporation in 1992 do
• 19 Feb 2010 Marratech — a swedish company out of luleå university of technology, founded in 1998, selling desktop software for e-meetings: voice and video with a shared white
• 26 Feb 2010 Celebdaq — the bbc took a mechanic that popex.com had been running on musicians since 1998 and pointed it at celebrities. you got ten thousand pounds of imaginar
• Mar 2010 3.5" Floppy Disk — the small plastic square that everyone had a stack of in 1995. it held 1.44 mb, it made a small whirring sound when you saved, and it is now only a sa
• 1 Mar 2010 Playahead — playahead was sweden's teenage internet. originally hångelguiden in 1998, rebranded playahead in 2000, profile pages and interest-based teams for swed
• Mar 2010 Frappr — one of the first google maps mashups, a widget your group embedded to pin everyone on a shared map. kun gao built it in 2005 and platial bought it in
• Mar 2010 JANJAN — janjan was japan's citizen-journalism paper, launched in february 2003 by ken takeuchi, a former asahi shimbun reporter who had gone on to be mayor of
• Mar 2010 Spymac — in april 2004 a mac rumor board started handing out one gigabyte mailboxes while gmail was still invite-only, and six hundred thousand people showed u
• Mar 2010 Win4Lin — version 5.5, february 18 2009, was the last release anybody shipped. win4lin ran windows applications inside a window on a linux desktop, first the wi
• 3 Mar 2010 Google SearchWiki — google shipped searchwiki on 20 november 2008 and hung small controls off every result on the page, so a signed-in user could push a link to the top o
• 3 Mar 2010 OpenMicroBlogging — evan prodromou wrote the spec in july 2008, five days after launching identi.ca, and waived every right he had over it in the copyright line. it was t
• 8 Mar 2010 Cities XL (Planet Offer) — cities xl shipped in october 2009 as a city builder with a subscription layer bolted on top, called the planet offer, where your city sat on a shared
• 9 Mar 2010 Nicktropolis — nicktropolis was nickelodeon's browser virtual world on nick.com, a flash city where kids made a little avatar and wandered themed areas built around
• 12 Mar 2010 Wayfinder — wayfinder sold turn-by-turn navigation as a monthly subscription on symbian and java handsets, back when the alternative was a garmin suckered to the
• 12 Mar 2010 a.scarywater.net — october 2002, when bittorrent was barely a year old and nobody had worked out what to do with it yet, a german hobbyist server called wirebrain.de sta
• 12 Mar 2010 MusicMight — taranaki, new zealand, is where the biggest metal encyclopedia on the web was maintained by one man out of his own house. garry sharpe-young had rockd
• 15 Mar 2010 IslamOnline — for almost thirteen years the largest arabic-language religious reference site on the internet was written in a building west of cairo by about 350 pe
• 15 Mar 2010 G.ho.st — g.ho.st stood for global hosted operating system and it lived on the country code of sao tome and principe, which remains the best thing about it. wha
• 17 Mar 2010 Core Design — nine people walked out of gremlin graphics in 1988 and set up in derby, and eight years later they made tomb raider, which turned a loss at eidos into
• 22 Mar 2010 Google China — google spent four years running a search engine that agreed in advance to remove results, on the theory that a filtered google was better for chinese
• 30 Mar 2010 Mozilla Sunbird — mozilla sunbird was a standalone calendar program from the mozilla foundation, the same people who made firefox. announced in july 2003 and first rele
• 30 Mar 2010 .yu — a country code is a political fact wearing technical clothes, and .yu is what happens when the politics move and the code does not. it was delegated o
• 31 Mar 2010 Snapvine — snapvine put a phone line on a profile page. you called a number and punched in a code, and your voice landed on somebody's myspace page as a player t
• 31 Mar 2010 CURURU — nhn japan arrived in japan with three products and by the summer of 2005 the search engine and the portal were both already closed. what was left got
• 31 Mar 2010 Extra.hu — in january 2010 dotroll gave hungary's oldest free hosting service a two-month deadline and a discount code. the announcement was published on a subdo
• Apr 2010 Simpy — simpy was one of the social bookmarking sites that grew up alongside delicious in 2004. you saved and tagged your links, then searched the whole pile
• Apr 2010 tr.im — august 2009 is when the web found out what a short link actually is. nambu network announced tr.im was over, then reversed itself within days and prom
• Apr 2010 SpyLOG — a small graphic in the footer of a russian web page, counting you. spylog opened its tracker in november 1999, had more than fifty thousand sites regi
• 3 Apr 2010 Microsoft Origami (UMPC) — origami was a microsoft and intel platform initiative for ultra-mobile pcs, formally revealed at cebit on 9 march 2006. the spec called for a touchscr
• 6 Apr 2010 The Daily Jolt — between 2000 and 2010 the daily jolt ran a separate website for each of more than a hundred colleges in the united states and canada. one page carried
• 9 Apr 2010 Vision Mobile Browser — the browser sat on the phone and the work happened somewhere else entirely. novarra put a server between a java feature phone and the open web, and th
• 12 Apr 2010 KernelTrap — jeremy andrews ran kerneltrap by doing one unglamorous thing for most of a decade: reading the linux kernel mailing list so that nobody else had to, t
• 15 Apr 2010 Halo 2 (Xbox Live) — microsoft turned off the original xbox live on april 15, 2010. fourteen players refused to log out of halo 2, the last server in the world for the ori
• 15 Apr 2010 AT&T WorldNet — at&t worldnet launched in march 1996 as ma bell's direct counter to aol. the pitch was flat-rate consumer dial-up at $19.95 a month with unmetered hou
• 15 Apr 2010 Room for PlayStation Portable — tokyo game show 2009 got a demo of a psp with a living room inside it. r∞m gave japanese handheld owners a 3d apartment, an avatar, a blog and an albu
• 16 Apr 2010 Vivaty — vivaty grew out of media machines, the company built around flux, an x3d and vrml viewer that ran as a browser plugin, and it renamed itself in may 20
• 20 Apr 2010 Facebook Lite (2009) — eight months and three countries. facebook shipped a stripped down version of itself in 2009 for people whose connections could not carry the real one
• 27 Apr 2010 S60 — nokia built s60 on top of symbian and then handed it most of the smartphone market for the better part of a decade. the menu key and the ability to in
• 29 Apr 2010 Microsoft Courier — i never owned a courier. nobody did. it never shipped. microsoft killed it on april 29 2010 after gizmodo leaked the prototype videos in september 200
• 30 Apr 2010 Yahoo! Publisher Network — ypn was yahoo's adsense. cost-per-click contextual ads next to your blog post, monthly check in the mail, us tax id required at signup. it stayed in b
• May 2010 Muxtape — muxtape was a website where you could upload mp3s in a specific order and get a url. that was the entire product. it ran from march 2008 to august 18,
• May 2010 Nokia N900 — the n900 was a debian-flavored linux desktop with a phone glued to the bottom of it. it shipped 11 november 2009 with maemo 5 on a slide-out keyboard,
• May 2010 Reflexive Entertainment — reflexive entertainment was the casual-game studio behind ricochet lost worlds and big kahuna reef, plus the 2005 igf seumas mcnally winner wik and th
• May 2010 Utterli — utterli was a phone-in audio and photo blogging service from the 2007 mobile-web moment. it started as utterz, rebranded to sound softer, then quietly
• May 2010 Essembly — 17,000 registered users in july 2006 was the high-water mark, reported by newsweek, and it tells you how small this stayed. joe green built it in 2005
• 2 May 2010 BumpTop — bumptop turned your desktop icons into stacks of paper on a 3d table with physics. you could fling them at the wall or pile them in a corner with a la
• 14 May 2010 Twine — twine was radar networks' bet that the semantic web would finally show up if you built the tools to make it easy. natural language processing extracte
• 18 May 2010 SpinVox — in july 2009 a bbc technology correspondent asked a plain question about spinvox: who is actually typing this. the answer was call center workers in s
• 21 May 2010 LiveDaily — livedaily was a ticketing company's newsroom. ticketmaster paid reporters to break tour announcements and interview bands from 1998 onward, and mtv ne
• 25 May 2010 Intel Larrabee — one teraflop out of a single chip, demonstrated on stage at supercomputing in november 2009. that was about a fifth of what you could already buy in a
• 25 May 2010 SweTorrents — a swedish appeals court ruled in may 2010 that telia had to hand over the name of the subscriber running swetorrents, under a copyright law that was b
• 26 May 2010 Radar.net — radar was mobile photo sharing in 2006, built for phones that took bad pictures and moved them by mms. you shared to a small circle instead of to the
• 28 May 2010 FitFinder — a computer science undergraduate at ucl put up a page in april 2010 where you could post, anonymously, the location and description of someone you had
• 31 May 2010 Lala — lala was the most interesting music service nobody got to use long enough to remember. it started in 2006 as a peer-to-peer cd trading marketplace, th
• Jun 2010 MapQuest — the way you got driving directions before google maps. you typed in two addresses, got back a list of turn-by-turn instructions, and printed it out on
• Jun 2010 Microsoft Office Live Workspace — microsoft tried to put office documents in the cloud before the cloud was a word people used. you could upload a docx and share a link, and other peop
• Jun 2010 Myspace IM — myspace ran the most popular social network in the english speaking world from 2005 to 2008 and decided what its users really needed was a windows des
• Jun 2010 Linux for PlayStation 2 — sony sold a box that turned a playstation 2 into a linux workstation: two discs, a 40 gb hard drive, a network adapter and a usb keyboard and mouse. i
• Jun 2010 mMode — the advertising shipped months before the product did. att wireless spent the january and february of 2002 on unbranded teasers for something called m
• Jun 2010 Green Dam Youth Escort (绿坝·花季护航) — the ministry of industry and information technology paid 41.7 million yuan for one year of it in may 2008 and never paid again. in may 2009 it ordered
• Jun 2010 Amapedia — in 2006 amazon decided the best description of a product might come from the people who already owned one, and opened a wiki where any customer could
• 1 Jun 2010 Windows Live Call — the phone icon at the top of every messenger conversation. free computer-to-computer audio and video on one side, paid calls to real telephone numbers
• 2 Jun 2010 Snyggast.se — upload your face, get a number between one and ten back from strangers. swedish teenagers did that from january 2001, and 318,000 of them passed throu
• 4 Jun 2010 PGP Corporation — network associates gave up on pgp in october 2001, suspended development, and put the assets out for sale. jon callas and phil dunkelberger founded a
• 10 Jun 2010 (Lil) Green Patch — a garden that lived on your facebook profile, watered by clicking, growing faster when your friends clicked too. in september 2008 it was the single m
• 10 Jun 2010 Tanarus — tanarus was an online tank game that verant interactive built before everquest and sony kept running for twelve and a half years afterward. up to twen
• Jun 2010 SpaceTime — eddie bakhash shipped the beta on 4 june 2007 and techcrunch called it pure eye candy, sort of like second life meets firefox. spacetime took your goo
• 12 Jun 2010 The Memory Hole — russ kick asked the air force for every photograph of a flag-draped coffin arriving at dover, was refused outright, appealed, and on 21 april 2004 was
• 22 Jun 2010 Piratbyrån — the tracker came second. a swedish anti-copyright think tank set itself up on 1 august 2003 to argue with the record industry in public, and one of th
• 25 Jun 2010 JournoList — ezra klein started a private google group in february 2007 so that a few hundred american political writers could argue with each other off the record
• 26 Jun 2010 NewsTilt — two computer scientists went through y combinator with a plan to fix journalism for journalists. the product launched in april 2010 and was gone by th
• Jun 2010 GarageBand.com (the music community) — the peer-review music platform for unsigned musicians. you uploaded an mp3, other users reviewed it, top-reviewed tracks made an official radio show.
• 30 Jun 2010 Microsoft Kin — the kin one and kin two were two phones microsoft built for teenagers in 2010, by way of buying the danger sidekick team and then making them rebuild
• 30 Jun 2010 NinjaVideo — ninjavideo ran from february '08 to june '10 as a link-and-stream site for movies and tv shows. at its peak it was getting six million visits a month,
• 30 Jun 2010 Dash Express — dash navigation shipped a car navigator in march 2008 with a cell modem and wi-fi inside it, so every unit sent its own speed and position home, then
• Jul 2010 LeapFrog Leapster — the leapster was leapfrog's kids handheld. cartridges, a stylus, a screen that played math and reading software dressed up as videogames. it shipped i
• 1 Jul 2010 Zuda Comics — zuda was dc comics deciding that the way to find webcomics talent was a monthly popularity contest. ten eight-page submissions went up inside a flash
• Jul 2010 SourceOECD — the oecd's own library, sold by subscription to institutions rather than to people. it launched in 2001 with around 250 books a year and 82 statistica
• Jul 2010 GOA — goa was france telecom's game portal, live from march 1999 until july 2010. it did matchmaking for free: one chat room per game, rooms you filled with
• 1 Jul 2010 Palm, Inc. — minus twenty two billion dollars. that is what the stock market said 3com was worth without palm on the first day palm traded on its own in march 2000
• 2 Jul 2010 T-Mobile Sidekick — the phone with the screen that swiveled open to a full qwerty keyboard underneath. built by danger inc, sold by t-mobile in the US, made famous by par
• 13 Jul 2010 Windows 2000 — december 1999 is when microsoft handed it to manufacturing, and three days before the february retail launch a leaked internal memo counted over 63,00
• 15 Jul 2010 Real Alternative — realplayer was the toll you paid to watch a .rm file, and a lot of people decided the toll was too high. real alternative unbundled it: the realmedia
• 15 Jul 2010 1 vs. 100 — 1 vs. 100 was the only thing microsoft ever shipped on xbox live primetime, a service built to run actual game shows on a schedule rather than games y
• 16 Jul 2010 quarterlife — marshall herskovitz and edward zwick, the men behind thirtysomething and my so-called life, put a drama on myspace in november 2007, and nine million
• 19 Jul 2010 DontDateHimGirl.com — in february 2006 the new york times called it a dating credit report, which was the founder's own phrase and the entire pitch. tasha joseph ran a miam
• 21 Jul 2010 Yahoo! Personals — yahoo personals was the dating service yahoo ran from 1997 until they gave up and outsourced the whole thing to match.com in 2010. at peak it was one
• Jul 2010 Gcast — a telephone call was the entire recording studio. you dialed gcast's 800 number, punched in your pin, said what you had to say, and by the time you go
• 30 Jul 2010 Bing Cashback — bing cashback was microsoft's attempt to bribe shoppers into searching through its engine instead of google's. money back on purchases at participatin
• 31 Jul 2010 Hollywood Video / Movie Gallery — hollywood video was mark wattles's portland video-rental chain that started in 1988 and grew to about 2,000 stores by the early 2000s, the second-larg
• 31 Jul 2010 Wesabe — wesabe was the personal finance startup that launched before mint and shut down after it. marc hedlund and jason knight founded it in late 2005, the s
• 31 Jul 2010 True/Slant — true/slant was lewis dvorkin's 2009 attempt to build a news site around individual contributor pages. journalists got their own url, their own audienc
• 2010 Microsoft Photo Story 3 — microsoft photo story started as a research project for adding narrated motion to still photos. the first version shipped in 2003 inside the paid plus
• Aug 2010 Odeo — odeo was a podcast directory and recording studio in a browser. noah glass and evan williams started building it in early '05 in san francisco. for ab
• Aug 2010 The Chronicles of Spellborn — a dutch-developed mmo with a real-time combat system that was unusual for its era. spellborn international launched the european version through frogs
• 1 Aug 2010 Fighter Ace — microsoft put its first premium game on the internet gaming zone on 18 december 1997 and charged a dollar ninety-five a day for it. fighter ace was wo
• Aug 2010 Hotbar — two founders put a plugin into internet explorer in 1999 that gave you emoticons for your email and skins for the browser window, and paid for it by w
• 4 Aug 2010 Playlogic Entertainment — playlogic was the largest game publisher the netherlands had, which in practice meant an amsterdam office and a shell company trading over the counter
• 10 Aug 2010 Motionbox — motionbox was a video-sharing site out of new york, built for people who wanted to share clips with a few friends instead of the whole internet. chris
• 13 Aug 2010 OpenSolaris — opensolaris was sun microsystems opening its own unix, starting with dtrace in january 2005 and the bulk of the solaris source that june. it had a wri
• 17 Aug 2010 Realtime Worlds — dundee studio, founded february 7 2000 by david jones after he left dma design behind. it shipped crackdown on xbox 360 in 2007. five years and over a
• 18 Aug 2010 LunarStorm — swedish teenagers had their own pre-facebook social network for a decade. lunarstorm opened on the first of january 2000, peaked at 1.2 million member
• 25 Aug 2010 DiggBar — on 2 april 2009 digg shipped a toolbar that turned any address into digg.com plus a few characters. the page you asked for loaded underneath it inside
• 27 Aug 2010 Bots!! — a korean studio called n-log soft made a game about robots fighting computer viruses, and acclaim games published it in the west in november 2006 as t
• 29 Aug 2010 Microsoft FolderShare — foldershare was a peer-to-peer file sync tool created by bytetaxi in 2001 and acquired by microsoft on november 3 2005. it sat in the windows live sta
• 30 Aug 2010 ATI Technologies — ati was the canadian gpu company that fought nvidia for the consumer 3d-graphics market for fifteen years, then got bought by amd in 2006 and had its
• 31 Aug 2010 Yedda — yedda was an israeli question-and-answer site out of tel aviv. it shipped in early 2006 with semantic search that tried to route a question to the use
• 31 Aug 2010 Kuvalauta — finland's imageboard for three years, run by somebody calling himself gabo whose real name has never been published. it sat inside the country's two h
• 31 Aug 2010 Microsoft Response Point — in 2007 microsoft sold a phone system to companies with under fifty employees, and its selling point was a blue button on the handset that you held do
• 1 Sep 2010 Apple TV (1st generation) — the first apple tv was a small intel-based mac-mini-shaped silver box. it had a hard drive, a syncing relationship with itunes, and a clear job: get c
• 1 Sep 2010 Nedstat — nedstat was an amsterdam web-counter and stats service launched in early 1996 by michiel berger with hans veldhuizen. the free counter became a ubiqui
• 1 Sep 2010 Covad — covad put its own dsl equipment inside the phone company's exchanges and sold the resulting lines wholesale, so the broadband you bought from earthlin
• 1 Sep 2010 Exteel — ncsoft put out a third-person mech shooter on 4 december 2007, korea and north america on the same day, free to download and paid for with nccoins. yo
• Sep 2010 Hot Potato — justin shaffer left major league baseball's website in 2008 and built an app that asked what you were doing instead of where you were standing. hot po
• 1 Sep 2010 Pogodak — telekom slovenije paid 8.55 million euros in 2007 for three quarters of interseek, the slovenian company that ran najdi.si at home and ran pogodak eve
• Sep 2010 OhmyNews International — oh yeon-ho's line was that every citizen is a reporter, and in korea it worked well enough to be credited with helping decide a presidential election.
• Sep 2010 Go-oo — michael meeks had been patching openoffice.org since 2003, and in october 2007 novell let the patch set out under a name of its own. go-oo read micros
• 2 Sep 2010 PC Zone — dennis publishing launched it in april 1993 as the first british monthly that covered nothing but pc games, and it spent seventeen years being ruder a
• 6 Sep 2010 Polar Rose — fourteen days is the whole story here. polar rose switched off its face recognition service on 6 september 2010, saying it was becoming a licensing bu
• 7 Sep 2010 VersionTracker — versiontracker was a software-update directory created in 1995 by kurt christensen in sacramento. it started as a mac-only catalog of shareware versio
• 14 Sep 2010 Haystack — in march 2010 the us treasury licensed a piece of software for export to iran, which had not happened before, and the software was haystack. the press
• 16 Sep 2010 APB - All Points Bulletin — apb is the 79-day collapse you cite when somebody asks how fast a triple-a launch can sink. dave jones's gta-meets-mmo burned through somewhere north
• 16 Sep 2010 Adobe Media Player — adobe built a television application for the desktop out of its own air runtime, showed it in april 2007 and shipped 1.0 a year later, with cbs and pb
• 17 Sep 2010 Cuil — the search engine that launched on 28 july 2008 with a tagline about indexing more pages than google. anna patterson and her husband tom costello had
• 22 Sep 2010 Amie Street — amie street launched july 4 2006 out of brown university with a strange pricing trick: every song started at zero dollars when uploaded, then climbed
• 29 Sep 2010 Ma.gnolia — magnolia was the social bookmarking site that lost everything in a single night. it launched in 2006 as the prettier alternative to delicious, gathere
• 29 Sep 2010 Avatars United — a group of swedish friends who played games together built a social network for the characters rather than the people behind them. your profile was an
• 30 Sep 2010 Vox — vox was a 2006 blogging platform from the company behind movable type and typepad, with livejournal in the same building. it was meant to be the prett
• 30 Sep 2010 Grazr — 2006 was the year a lot of smart people decided rss was the default api to the web, and grazr was built on that sentence taken literally. michael kowa
• 30 Sep 2010 Quattro Wireless — apple wanted admob, google paid $750 million for admob, and apple bought the runner-up instead. quattro wireless changed hands in january 2010 for $27
• Oct 2010 NBC Direct — nbc direct was nbc universal's own download-to-watch service for prime-time episodes, launched in november 2007 in beta and through three painful iter
• 1 Oct 2010 Propeller.com — propeller.com was aol's social-news play, launched in june 2006 as a relaunched netscape.com built around user-voted stories under jason calacanis. it
• 1 Oct 2010 Yahoo! SearchMonkey — the microsoft deal is what killed this one. yahoo switched off searchmonkey on 1 october 2010, twenty-nine months after opening it, because bing was t
• Oct 2010 Massive Incorporated — the billboards in burnout paradise carried an obama campaign ad in october 2008, across eighteen games in ten early-voting states, and this is the com
• 4 Oct 2010 Falha de S. Paulo — two brothers in são paulo swapped one vowel in a newspaper's name and published a parody of its election coverage. seventeen days later the frias fami
• 8 Oct 2010 Microsoft Live Labs Pivot — microsoft live labs pivot was a data-visualization client built on the seadragon deep-zoom engine, released as a free download in february 2010 and de
• 8 Oct 2010 Zenbe — zenbe was a webmail service out of new york that tried to make email into something more than a stack of messages. its odd idea was the zenpage, a sha
• 9 Oct 2010 Trance.nu — trance.nu was the english-language headquarters of a genre, run out of the netherlands and sweden by volunteers who reviewed everything that came out.
• 11 Oct 2010 Microsoft Vine — microsoft vine was the post-katrina social network microsoft tried to build for emergencies. you would log in during a disaster and find the people in
• 15 Oct 2010 Nokia Ovi Files — a nokia cloud service that shipped two years before nokia had a cloud strategy. ovi files let you mirror your windows or mac desktop to your phone and
• Oct 2010 BlogBurst — three thousand four hundred blogs were in the network at the top, feeding the washington post and reuters among others, and the standard rate for bein
• Oct 2010 BlackBerry Storm — the storm was research in motion's iphone-killer for verizon, the carrier that did not yet have the iphone and wanted a touchscreen flagship of its ow
• 20 Oct 2010 Whole Wheat Radio — jim kloss ran a 24-hour independent music station out of a cabin in talkeetna, alaska, and the listeners built the catalog alongside him on a wiki. it
• 21 Oct 2010 Sharp Mebius — sharp put the mebius name on laptops in 1995 and spent fifteen years making them thinner than anybody else was willing to try. the muramasa machines g
• 22 Oct 2010 Sony Walkman — the original portable cassette player. invented personal music in 1979. it ran the world's listening habits for thirty years. sony stopped making cass
• 22 Oct 2010 12seconds.tv — 12seconds.tv was a video status service built around one rule, a clip of twelve seconds or less. it launched in 2008 and leaned hard on twitter, posti
• 26 Oct 2010 LimeWire — limewire was the file-sharing client your friend with the slow connection used. it was a slow java app full of mislabeled mp3s. the riaa came for it i
• 26 Oct 2010 Microsoft Entourage — entourage shipped in october 2000 as part of office 2001 for mac, a personal information manager combining email with calendar and address book and ta
• 26 Oct 2010 Gnutella — two nullsoft engineers released a file-sharing network with nothing in the middle of it, and aol took the download off the site inside twenty-four hou
• 31 Oct 2010 Pontiac — the presidential task force on the auto industry read general motors' first survival plan in early 2009 and sent it back for deeper cuts. pontiac was
• 31 Oct 2010 Saturn Corporation — spring hill, tennessee got a multi-billion dollar plant and a union contract written from scratch, because general motors wanted to find out whether i
• 31 Oct 2010 Infoseek isweb Light — roughly two million japanese personal homepages stopped existing at around two in the morning on 1 november 2010. isweb light was the free tier of rak
• Nov 2010 JXTA — sun's answer to the peer-to-peer moment was not an application but a set of open protocols meant to let anything with a processor find anything else a
• 1 Nov 2010 BlogRolling.com — on 6 october 2010 tucows put up a post titled "blogrolling will cease operation november 1st", and the early blogosphere lost the thing that held it t
• Nov 2010 BrightFuse — careerbuilder made its money selling job listings and access to resumes. in august 2009 it launched a free professional network where none of that was
• 4 Nov 2010 Bloglines — the web-based rss reader that ran the blog-following layer of the open web for the eighteen months before google reader showed up. mark fletcher launc
• 4 Nov 2010 GoFish — november 2010: a company that had once been a video site with close to twenty million users stopped paying the publishers it sold ads for, and then st
• 8 Nov 2010 Apple HomePage — five templates and a publish button, and apple would host the result at homepage.mac.com under a name you had picked yourself. it started free in janu
• 12 Nov 2010 GOOG-411 — goog-411 was a phone number, 1-800-goog-411, that let you speak the name of a business and have google find it and connect the call, for free. it laun
• 19 Nov 2010 EVEREST — hardware diagnostics for people who built their own machines. lavalys shipped everest home and pro on may 3 2004, written by tamás miklós, who had sto
• 22 Nov 2010 Cliqset — darren bounds and charlie cauthen built cliqset in jacksonville, florida, and pointed it at a problem everybody agreed was real: your posts were scatt
• 29 Nov 2010 Worldchanging — alex steffen and jamais cascio started worldchanging in october 2003 to write about sustainability as a distribution problem rather than as a coming d
• 30 Nov 2010 Thottbot — bill dyess started thottbot in 2001 as an mmorpg news site and rebuilt it in 2004 as a searchable database for world of warcraft. the data came from a
• 30 Nov 2010 Rakuten Links — it was labeled beta on the day it opened and it was still labeled beta four and a half years later when rakuten turned it off. 楽天広場リンクス started on 27
• Dec 2010 Microsoft Office Communicator — office communicator was the in-office im client that microsoft shipped with live communications server, then office communications server. it gave cor
• Dec 2010 backstage.bbc.co.uk — in 2005 the bbc opened a pile of its own feeds to anybody who asked for them and put a motto on the front page: use our stuff to build your stuff. new
• Dec 2010 WildStorm — on 21 september 2010 dc announced that the wildstorm banner would end that december, eighteen years after jim lee founded the studio as one of the ori
• 2 Dec 2010 Stile Project — jay stile's shock-aggregator site, registered october 3, 1999. ran for eleven years as part of the english-language shock canon alongside rotten.com a
• 8 Dec 2010 WebSocket draft-hixie-76 — on 8 december 2010 two browsers turned off a feature they had already shipped. adam barth had shown that the handshake in ian hickson's -76 draft coul
• 9 Dec 2010 Phoenix Dynasty Online — on 9 december 2010 ingle games posted that it was closing every phoenix dynasty online server that day, and then did it. the game was a free to play f
• 15 Dec 2010 drop.io — drop.io let you create a private file 'drop' at a custom url with no signup needed. you could send to it from email, web upload, voicemail, or even a
• 18 Dec 2010 BBC Switch — the bbc had children's television and it had radio 1, and between them sat an age group with nothing addressed to it. switch was the answer, a saturda
• 19 Dec 2010 Nettby — nettby was the norwegian social network that schibsted's vg multimedia opened september 14 2006 as a community layer next to the vg.no tabloid. member
• 21 Dec 2010 BookArmy — a publisher's attempt to own the place where readers talk about books. harpercollins uk built it with a partner in february 2009 and filled it with pa
• 25 Dec 2010 Swiftfox — eleven cpu-specific binaries of the same browser, cut by one man on a dreamhost account and paid for with a donate button. swiftfox existed because mo
• 27 Dec 2010 Phantasy Star Online — sega put a four player action rpg on the dreamcast in december 2000 and made the online half the entire point, which no console game had pulled off be
• 28 Dec 2010 Viewzi — a visual search engine out of dallas that refused to hand back a list. you typed a query and it picked which of its layouts fit, an album wall for a b
• 30 Dec 2010 Huxley: The Dystopia — webzen showed huxley at e3 in 2005 as one of the first announced unreal engine 3 games and as the mmofps, a persistent-world game with the aiming of a
• 2010 Compaq iPAQ — the compaq ipaq was a line of pocket pc handhelds launched in april 2000, running microsoft's windows mobile stack and aimed at business users who wan
• 2010 Lycos — one of the early big four search engines (with altavista, yahoo, infoseek) before google. CMU spinoff. went public in 1996. terra networks of spain bo
• 2010 Personal Homepages (the cultural form) — the personal homepage as a cultural form. roughly 1995 to 2010. you got free hosting somewhere (geocities, angelfire, multimania) and you made a page
• 31 Dec 2010 Sony Mylo — the mylo was a wifi-only pocket device with no cellular radio, marketed at american teenagers in 2006 who could lean on free t-mobile hotspots for a y
• 2010 Ultima Online (the cultural era) — the 2D isometric medieval mmorpg from 1997. you were a small avatar in a big shared world. you mined ore. you tamed dragons. you got murdered by a pla
• 31 Dec 2010 Millsberry — general mills built an entire virtual town to sell breakfast cereal to children. you walked a small cartoon buddy around metro park, golden valley, ra
• 31 Dec 2010 Dizzywood — a san francisco studio with money from a cnet co-founder built a browser world for eight to fourteen year olds, and built it around quests rather than
• 31 Dec 2010 Teen Second Life — linden lab ran two worlds for almost six years, one for adults and one for anybody aged thirteen to seventeen, and the teenagers got the smaller one w
• 31 Dec 2010 Scoop / Youpost (סקופ) — a researcher at ben-gurion university counted where the stories came from and found that israel's professional news sites ran about half their items o
• 31 Dec 2010 Nanovor — jordan weisman created battletech and shadowrun, then raised $29 million to make a card battler for american ten-year-olds. nanovor went into public b
• 2010 Glubble — a firefox add-on that let a parent hand over the family computer without handing over the whole web. glaxstar shipped glubble for families on 18 june

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