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• Jan 2013 ASUS Eee PC — the netbook that started the netbook category. launched october 16 2007 in taiwan, the 701 model shipped with a 7-inch screen, a 900 mhz celeron, 512
• 2013 Xandros — xandros was the linux distribution that shipped on the first generation of the asus eee pc, the 2007 netbook that put linux on a million store shelves
• 2013 Handango — the pre-iphone mobile app store. founded 1999 in irving texas to sell software for palm pdas and symbian phones. acquired by pocketgear in 2010 and sh
• 2013 PocketGear — pocketgear was a 2001 cross-platform mobile software catalog. by february 2010 it had bought handango for an undisclosed sum, becoming the largest pre
• 2013 LiveVideo.com — livevideo was brad greenspan's attempt to build a second myspace out of video. greenspan had co-founded intermix, the company behind myspace, and afte
• 2013 Miro — miro wanted to be television for the open web, a free player that pulled in video podcasts and bittorrent feeds and treated them like channels you sub
• 2013 Syndic8 — syndic8 was a directory of rss and atom feeds that ran from august 2001 into the autumn of 2013, built by jeff barr a year before he went to amazon an
• 2013 WAP — wap was the mobile web before the mobile web worked. a stripped-down standard from 1999 that served wml pages to tiny phone screens over a slow, meter
• 2013 NabiscoWorld — nabisco opened a games portal in 1999 and filled it with free flash games in which the product was the level. by 2004 it carried games for seventeen b
• 2013 1000Memories — it started as a place to put someone after they died. a free page with a photo wall on it, and somewhere for the people who knew them to write things
• 2013 Dipdive — a social network built by a musician that had the single biggest video of the 2008 election on it before anybody knew the site existed. four million v
• 2013 Video CD — video cd was the white book standard of 1993: mpeg-1 video on an ordinary compact disc at about 1.15 megabits a second, which is vhs quality if you ar
• 2013 WikiScanner — wikiscanner launched on 13 august 2007 and did exactly one thing. it took every anonymous wikipedia edit made between february 2002 and august 2007, a
• 2013 Userplane — userplane sold chat as a component. you dropped its widget into your own site, your own users talked to each other inside a box carrying your logo, an
• 2013 FlashGet — before broadband made downloading boring, a file that failed at ninety four percent was simply gone and you began again from zero. flashget opened sev
• 2013 Orb Networks — orb was a program you installed on the windows machine at home so that everything on its hard drive became reachable from anywhere else, transcoded on
• 2013 TeaShark — one hundred and forty-five kilobytes was the entire browser. teashark shipped in september 2007 as a java midlet for phones that had nothing worth bro
• 2013 SharedCopy — chew choon keat built a way to draw on somebody else's web page and hand the result to a colleague, and for a stretch of 2007 that looked like the nex
• Jan 2013 Blistering — robert cotter started it in 1998, when the web was still new enough that a metal magazine could be built on it by people who were not already in publi
• Jan 2013 BeatThatQuote.com — 7 march 2011 is the day google paid 37.7 million pounds for a british price comparison site. 8 march is the day google pushed that same site off the f
• 2013 Daylife — a billion api calls a month, and almost nobody outside a newsroom had heard the name. daylife sold the machinery behind topic pages and photo gallerie
• 2013 Chowk.com — a chowk is the square where the roads meet, and the site took the name literally. it launched in 1997 for the fiftieth independence day of india and o
• 2013 Proust — tom cortese built a place that asked you more than a thousand questions about your own life and filed the answers as chapters of it, and barry diller'
• 2013 Ty Girlz — a plush doll with a code sewn onto its tag, sold in american toy aisles from april 2007, and the code unlocked a room in a 3d world at ty-girlz.ty.com
• 1 Jan 2013 GeneTree — terrence carmichael finished a masters in molecular genetics in 1995 and started genetree two years later, selling dna tests whose results you could h
• Jan 2013 PrivateSky — a division of gchq asked for the keys at the end of 2012, and the company decided the cheapest answer was to switch the product off. privatesky was a
• 3 Jan 2013 COTOJE.CZ — on 3 january 2013 a czech portal switched off the digitized text of fifty-six encyclopedia volumes, about half a million entries and thirty thousand p
• 14 Jan 2013 Indiana Jones Adventure World — zynga boston shipped adventure world on facebook on 1 september 2011, the first ville-family game with a non-farm theme. on 29 november 2011 the game
• Jan 2013 Nexus Q — the nexus q was a 300 dollar bowling-ball-sized android-powered media streamer that google announced at i/o 2012, gave away to conference attendees, t
• 17 Jan 2013 eMachines — emachines sold a whole computer for 399 dollars in 1998 and was the fourth largest pc seller in america six months later. the box was never really the
• 18 Jan 2013 Family Guy Online — family guy online was a browser mmo built for fox around a cartoon at the height of its ratings. it opened in public beta on 17 april 2012 with the sh
• 22 Jan 2013 Snip.it — fifteen months from launch to switch-off, and the switch-off happened the same day the acquisition was announced. yahoo wanted ten engineers for its s
• 22 Jan 2013 Blogs of Note — for twelve years somebody at blogger picked a blog a day and put it on a list, and for a lot of small sites that single line was the biggest traffic d
• 23 Jan 2013 THQ — thq was founded in april 1990 by jack friedman. the name stood for toy headquarters and the first few years were action-figure manufacturing tied to w
• 23 Jan 2013 Vigil Games — no bid came in. every other thq development studio found a buyer at the january 2013 auction and vigil did not, because it had shipped darksiders ii f
• 25 Jan 2013 Frenzoo — a studio killed its own world to go chase phones. frenzoo was a unity browser world out of hong kong where you dressed an avatar and then showed it to
• Jan 2013 Microsoft Office Picture Manager — office picture manager was the small image editor that nobody chose and everybody used. it shipped in the office bundle from 2003 through 2010. it ope
• 29 Jan 2013 Junction Point Studios — warren spector spent the 2000s trying to find a publisher that would let him keep making immersive sims. junction point was the studio he opened to at
• 31 Jan 2013 Audiogalaxy — audiogalaxy was the p2p tool that felt curated. you queued songs in a web browser and your machine downloaded them in the background, with chat-enable
• 31 Jan 2013 Stickam — stickam launched in 2005 as one of the first websites you could embed a live webcam stream into another page. by 2012 it had 9.3 million registered us
• 31 Jan 2013 Narod.ru — narod.ru launched in 2000 as a free web hosting service operated by yandex, offering a domain on the narod.ru subdomain, unlimited storage, and ftp ac
• 31 Jan 2013 Buy.com — buy.com launched in 1997 as scott blum's plan to win e-commerce by selling below cost and making the money back on ads and services. it sold $125 mill
• 31 Jan 2013 own3D.tv — for a couple of years this was a real rival to Justin.tv for people who wanted to watch others play, especially in the starcraft and counter-strike sc
• 31 Jan 2013 LinkedIn Answers — for six years linkedin had a working question board attached to it. you asked your network something about your industry, strangers holding the same j
• 31 Jan 2013 Nownuri — nownuri was the third of korea's big pc communication services, launched by nowcom in october 1994 and running behind chollian and hitel for its whole
• Feb 2013 MiniDisc — sony's beautiful magneto-optical format. small, recordable, durable. it was the dominant portable music format in japan for fifteen years. it had a re
• Feb 2013 Yahoo Fire Eagle — fire eagle was yahoo's location-broker api, built inside the brickhouse skunkworks in 2007, opened to the public in march 2008, killed in february 201
• 1 Feb 2013 AdBrite — adbrite put a price tag on the corner of a web page. you clicked Your Ad Here, saw what a week on that site cost, paid it and your banner went up with
• 1 Feb 2013 Microsoft XNA — the notice was an email to unpaid volunteers and it was never meant to be read outside that mailing list. it told the mvp award holders that directx w
• 1 Feb 2013 Regretsy — april winchell was a voice actress and the daughter of a famous ventriloquist, and in october 2009 she started posting the strangest listings on etsy
• Feb 2013 MyLinkVault — on 22 january 2013 mylinkvault's homepage was 3,713 bytes of working product. on 2 march it was 436 bytes, and by the end of that month it was down to
• 2 Feb 2013 Nortel Networks — nortel was the canadian telecom-equipment giant that built dms switches and meridian pbx systems and the optical long-haul gear that the dot-com fiber
• 4 Feb 2013 Yardsellr — three former ebay executives started this in san francisco in october 2009 and spent the next three years trying to turn the facebook news feed into a
• 6 Feb 2013 Bluefin Labs — deb roy and michael fleischman spun bluefin labs out of mit in 2008 to do social-tv analytics. their product, bluefin signals, read public twitter and
• 6 Feb 2013 TamaTown — tamatown was the website your tamagotchi went to. from 2006 the connection versions produced a short code on their own tiny screen, you typed it into
• 6 Feb 2013 Menshn — louise mensch was a sitting conservative mp when she launched a rival to twitter, which is a sentence that could only have been written in 2012. mensh
• 7 Feb 2013 EveryBlock — everyblock was a hyperlocal news experiment that mapped the web down to a single city block. adrian holovaty built it in 2007 on a knight foundation g
• 8 Feb 2013 OpenSpace.ru — openspace opened on 26 june 2008 as a russian site about contemporary culture, edited by the poet maria stepanova and written by more than five hundre
• 12 Feb 2013 Opera (Presto era) — presto was the proprietary rendering engine opera software wrote in oslo. it shipped with opera 7 on january 28, 2003 and powered every desktop opera
• 13 Feb 2013 Microsoft Live Mesh — live mesh was the consumer face of ray ozzie's vision for microsoft. you ran an agent on each of your pcs, picked folders to keep in sync across them
• 13 Feb 2013 Windows Live Mesh — microsoft's answer to dropbox synced up to 200 folders across your machines and pushed 5 gb to the cloud on the side. it also did remote desktop over
• 16 Feb 2013 Hipster — hipster launched in january 2011 as a cryptic teaser site that collected 10000 email signups in two days without telling anyone what it actually did.
• 19 Feb 2013 Freechal — freechal launched in 1999 in seoul, founded by jeon wan, a former samsung c&t employee. the name was a portmanteau of "freedom" and "challenge", and t
• 21 Feb 2013 1up.com — ziff davis gaming media on the web. heavy podcast network, opinionated editorial, 2003 launch out of the egm + computer gaming world magazine staff. u
• 21 Feb 2013 UGO Networks — ugo started in '97 as unified gamers online and became undergroundonline in 1999. hearst bought the network in july 2007. ugo bought 1up and electroni
• 21 Feb 2013 FilePlanet — the gamespy game-file portal where every mod or demo you wanted lived behind a queue. free users waited. fileplanet plus subscribers cut the line for
• 21 Feb 2013 PlanetQuake — planetquake was a fan site for one game that turned into a company. mark surfas built it in 1996 to host and distribute the mods people were making fo
• 22 Feb 2013 Memolane — twenty four hours was the whole notice. memolane had spent two and a bit years building an internet time machine, a scrollable lane that pulled your o
• 24 Feb 2013 Survival Project — four closings over nine years, and only the last one counted. the international servers went in october 2004 and the malaysian english ones in march 2
• 25 Feb 2013 Bada — bada was samsung's quiet attempt to own its own smartphone stack instead of renting android from google. it launched on the samsung wave in may 2010,
• 25 Feb 2013 TVU Player — every viewer was also a server, and that was the whole trick. tvu player pulled a live television channel off a peer to peer swarm and pushed it back
• 26 Feb 2013 Fraps — fraps was the windows utility that drew a small yellow frame counter in the corner of your screen and let you record whatever was happening behind it.
• 26 Feb 2013 Amplicate — four hundred and fifty million opinions, filed under more than a million topics, each one sorted into love or hate and nothing in between. juan alvare
• 27 Feb 2013 Compaq — compaq started in 1982 with three texas instruments engineers building a portable ibm-clone in a houston garage. by the mid 1990s it was the world's l
• 28 Feb 2013 Mocality — mocality was kenya's largest online business directory built between 2009 and 2013 by stefan magdalinski for naspers. it paid kenyan agents through m-
• 28 Feb 2013 Ancestry24 — ancestry24 was the first commercial african genealogy site, launched by media24 in 2004 and built around a researcher in cape town who knew where the
• Mar 2013 Suite101.com — suite101 was a vancouver-based contributor-written content platform that paid writers a share of ad revenue. the site peaked around 2009-2010 with 4 m
• 1 Mar 2013 Bandai Entertainment — bandai entertainment started in 1998 as a california dvd label named after a website, animevillage.com, and grew into the north american arm of the co
• Mar 2013 eSnips — esnips gave you free storage for any file and folders you could open to the public, and what people put in them was music. that made it one of the sit
• Mar 2013 Plixi — twitter's updated developer rules are what lockerz pointed at on 15 march 2013 when it closed the plixi photo api, though the product had been dying s
• 1 Mar 2013 The Web Standards Project — in 1998 a page could render so differently in netscape 4 and internet explorer 4 that professionals shipped two copies of the same site and a script t
• 5 Mar 2013 Twitter @Anywhere — the javascript file is still there. platform.twitter.com/anywhere.js answers today, and what it returns is a function that writes three warnings into
• Mar 2013 Snarfer — version 1.0.2 shipped on 15 june 2008 and nothing ever shipped after it. the site stayed up anyway, still advertising the leading rss reader since 200
• 10 Mar 2013 Intrade — john delaney died fifty meters below the summit of everest in may 2011, with a daughter born while he was on the mountain, and the prediction market h
• 12 Mar 2013 Connotea — connotea was nature publishing group's attempt to build del.icio.us for scientists, launched in december 2004 and free the whole way. you pasted a doi
• 13 Mar 2013 BlogTV — blogtv was the israeli-run live-video site that let anyone with a webcam broadcast a channel while a chat scroll ran alongside it. the whole thing cov
• 13 Mar 2013 FeedDemon — feeddemon was the desktop reader for people who treated their feed list like an inbox. nick bradbury built it, sold it to newsgator, and kept improvin
• 13 Mar 2013 Adobe BrowserLab — browserlab was a screenshot farm adobe ran so you did not have to keep six browsers and two operating systems on your desk. you handed it a url, picke
• 13 Mar 2013 BackTrack — two security live cds merged in 2006 and became the thing everyone booted from a disc instead of installing. it carried the whole toolkit already conf
• 15 Mar 2013 DGamer — dgamer was disney's social network for nintendo ds players. it lived on top of the nintendo wi-fi connection and disappeared the day nintendo retired
• 15 Mar 2013 The Boston Phoenix — the boston phoenix was a boston alternative weekly newspaper founded in 1965 by joe hanlon, james t. lewis and larry stark as "boston after dark" and
• 15 Mar 2013 Simtel — simtel was the shareware archive, started by keith petersen in 1979 for cp/m software and hosted for a decade on an army weapons range in new mexico.
• 15 Mar 2013 The Punch — news limited launched the punch in 2009 with david penberthy editing, an opinion site loosely modeled on the huffington post and sold as a place for e
• 21 Mar 2013 Multiply — multiply launched in march 2004 as a US social network for family blogs and photo albums, found a much bigger audience in the philippines and indonesi
• 29 Mar 2013 Warhammer Online: Wrath of Heroes — electronic arts closed this one before it ever left beta. wrath of heroes was mythic taking the art and the lore of warhammer online and rebuilding th
• Mar 2013 Loopt — loopt was a geosocial network founded by sam altman in 2005 out of y combinator's first batch. it shipped through us carrier partnerships starting wit
• Mar 2013 Creative Zen — creative's nine-year attempt to take the mp3 player crown from apple. it won a $100m patent settlement against apple in 2006 and lost the market anywa
• 31 Mar 2013 Trama Virtual — 78,675 registered artists and 205,512 songs, all uploaded by the people who made them, all switched off on 31 march 2013. trama virtual was the web ar
• 31 Mar 2013 Punchfork — pinterest made its first acquisition on 3 january 2013 and the thing it bought was a one-man recipe search engine built on twenty thousand dollars of
• 1 Apr 2013 Yahoo Avatars — yahoo avatars was the cartoon character creator that launched in may 2004 alongside yahoo messenger 6. you built a stylised version of yourself out of
• Apr 2013 Webcomics Nation — webcomics nation was joey manley's webcomic hosting service that launched on 29 july 2005 as a turnkey alternative for cartoonists who did not want to
• Apr 2013 Digsby — digsby was a windows im aggregator that logged into eight chat networks at once. it started as an rit mba project, hit meebo/trillian territory, then
• Apr 2013 iFrance — ifrance was france's version of the free web-host, a place where anyone could put up a personal page and grab an email address without paying a franc.
• 1 Apr 2013 Dai-2 Nippon Television — toshio tsuchiya had already made his name at nippon television with denpa shonen, and in october 2005 he was handed a website instead of a time slot.
• 1 Apr 2013 ZUG.com — shortly after midnight on 1 april 2013, a comedy site that had been publishing since 1995 took every article and every forum thread offline in one go.
• 1 Apr 2013 Yahoo! Message Boards — on 1 march 2013 a yahoo corporate blog post listed the products marissa mayer was retiring that spring, and the message boards were on the list. by th
• Apr 2013 mp3HD — technicolor built a file that was two recordings at once: a normal mp3 any player could read, and a lossless copy folded into the id3 tag where old so
• 2 Apr 2013 TVNZ Teletext — a telethon in 1981 raised the money, and the pages went live on 1 february 1984 because deaf new zealanders had no other way to get the news off a tel
• 3 Apr 2013 LucasArts — lucasarts started in may 1982 as a small games division inside george lucas's film company. it became the dominant point-and-click adventure-game stud
• 3 Apr 2013 Star Wars 1313 — on 3 april 2013 disney ended internal development at lucasarts, kept fewer than ten people to administer licenses, and took the studio's nearly finish
• 4 Apr 2013 Handmark — kansas city, about twenty miles north of sprint's headquarters in overland park, which turns out to be the whole ending. handmark spent thirteen years
• 4 Apr 2013 Is Anybody Down? — the federal trade commission is not usually who ends a website, and here it was not the photographs that gave the agency its opening. is anybody down
• 8 Apr 2013 Windows Live Messenger — the new name for msn messenger after december 2005. same green icon, same contact list, longer string in the install wizard. peak of 330 million month
• 8 Apr 2013 Messenger Plus! — cyril paciullo wrote an add-on for msn messenger in 2001 and 62 million people ended up installing it. it added colored nicknames and sound clips to a
• 9 Apr 2013 Tumblr Storyboard — chris mohney came over from gawker to run an editorial desk inside a blogging platform, and jessica bennett came from newsweek and the daily beast to
• 11 Apr 2013 We Are Hunted — we are hunted was a music-discovery chart that turned blog buzz into a real-time top-list of songs nobody had heard yet. it ran for four years before
• 15 Apr 2013 Formspring — formspring was the anonymous question box of the early 2010s. you posted a profile, anyone could ask you anything without showing their name, and the
• 15 Apr 2013 Rambler Maps — on 10 october 2000 rambler put a map of russia on the web, the first one a russian portal had. over the next twelve years it learned to build routes a
• 21 Apr 2013 Máquina de Quadrinhos — mauricio de sousa produções opened the máquina de quadrinhos on 11 september 2009, a browser toy that assembled a turma da mônica strip out of ready-m
• 22 Apr 2013 r/FindBostonBombers — opened on 16 april 2013, the day after the boston marathon bombing, by people who thought a few thousand readers looking at the same crowd photographs
• 25 Apr 2013 Yandex Narod — three million russian home pages needed a new landlord in 2013, and yandex found one rather than keep paying for them. narod.ru opened in 2000 as free
• 26 Apr 2013 Spinner.com — spinner started as thedj.com in 1996 in san francisco. one of the very first internet radio services, claimed to be the largest by 2001. aol bought it
• 26 Apr 2013 AOL Sessions — aol sessions was an in-house concert series from aol music that filmed acoustic and stripped-down performances by major recording artists for the aol
• 28 Apr 2013 WWE All Stars — aubrey sitterson, an interactive marketing manager at wwe games, confirmed on twitter that the servers were off. that was the announcement. thq had pu
• 28 Apr 2013 Fuduntu — andrew wyatt ended his own distribution on 28 april 2013 and put the arithmetic in the announcement: fewer than 2,500 people were still running it, an
• 30 Apr 2013 Posterous — posterous launched in 2008 as a way to post anything to a blog by sending it as an email. founders sachin agarwal and garry tan ran it through y combi
• Apr 2013 Sony Tablet S / Tablet P — the sony tablet line was a two-device run. the tablet s was a 9.4 inch wedge that landed september 16, 2011, and the tablet p was a dual-screen foldin
• 30 Apr 2013 Yahooligans! — yahooligans was yahoo's kid-safe directory, launched in april 1996 as a hand-curated guide to the open web for children aged about four to fourteen. f
• Apr 2013 EA Black Box — ea black box was an EA-owned game studio in burnaby, canada that defined the import-tuner era of need for speed from 2003 through 2008. it also built
• 30 Apr 2013 Upcoming.org — upcoming was andy baio's social events calendar from october 2003. you posted an event with a date and a location, your friends could mark themselves
• 30 Apr 2013 Norton Ghost — the disk imaging tool. murray haszard built ghost at binary research in auckland new zealand in 1995. symantec acquired the company in 1998 and folded
• 30 Apr 2013 schülerVZ — schülerVZ was the under-18 social network for the german-speaking world, launched in february 2007 as a sister site to studiVZ. holtzbrinck had bought
• 30 Apr 2013 Wavii — wavii used natural language processing to summarize the news into short structured updates you could follow by topic. seattle-founded, in stealth for
• 30 Apr 2013 Streetfiles — a 44,000 euro debt left over from an earlier version of the same project is what closed streetfiles. three berlin developers took the graffiti archive
• 30 Apr 2013 Kingdom Hearts Mobile — for four and a half years square enix kept a small 2d world running on japanese feature phones, where you walked a kingdom hearts avatar between a poi
• May 2013 Webmonkey — webmonkey was hotwired's spinoff web-dev tutorial site. it launched in august 1996 with javascript and html guides for the people who were teaching th
• May 2013 We7 — we7 launched in april 2007 as a uk music download service co-founded by peter gabriel and steve purdham of surfcontrol. the model was an audio ad spli
• May 2013 Summly — a london teenager built a mobile news summarizer with yoko ono and ashton kutcher on the cap table. he then sold the whole thing to yahoo for around t
• May 2013 HTC First — the htc first was the phone built to launch facebook home, the skin that turned your whole android screen into a facebook feed. it lasted about a mont
• May 2013 Star Wars Kid — a fourteen year old in trois-rivieres filmed himself in a school studio in november 2002 and left the tape behind. classmates found it, made a file of
• May 2013 Weplay — weplay was a social network for youth sports, launched in march 2008 by a joint venture of creative artists agency and mlb advanced media with a hedge
• May 2013 Kanoodle — in october 2004, when every site owner on the web was arguing about how much google was keeping, kanoodle shipped brightads and asked publishers to co
• May 2013 Unsanity — haxie was a word this company invented, out of hack mac os x, for the small system modifications apple had permitted in mac os 9 and left no room for
• May 2013 Storylane — seven months after it opened to the public, facebook bought storylane's five people and explicitly did not buy storylane. the stories stayed with whoe
• 2 May 2013 Hotmail — the first webmail that worked. you got an @hotmail.com address, you logged in from any computer in the world, and your email was there. microsoft boug
• May 2013 Adobe Fireworks — fireworks was the macromedia tool web designers reached for when photoshop felt like a tank and illustrator overshot. it shipped from 1998 through 201
• 10 May 2013 Google SMS Search — people without data plans were the last real constituency for google sms search, and on friday 10 may 2013 google switched it off without telling them
• 12 May 2013 MiniMonos — melissa clark-reynolds built minimonos in new zealand from 2009, an island where children six and over made a monkey and played mini games about recyc
• 13 May 2013 Lucky Sort — 13 may 2013, 19:21 utc: lucky sort replaced its own homepage with a letter saying it had been bought by twitter, and that was the last afternoon anyon
• 18 May 2013 HijackThis — a dutch student wrote a scanner with no opinion about anything. it read the parts of windows that a hijacker had to touch and printed them as a flat l
• 21 May 2013 Battlefield Online — electronic arts and dice let neowiz rebuild battlefield 2 as a free korean pc bang game and then released it in exactly one country. it launched on 30
• 24 May 2013 Liberty Reserve — a costa rica shell company that ran a currency. you signed up with a name and an email. you bought "lr dollars" and sent them to anyone. the us treasu
• 24 May 2013 BBC Digital Media Initiative — the bbc used it to make one television show. the digital media initiative was supposed to take videotape out of the entire corporation, started in feb
• 25 May 2013 Quintura — a moscow development team with a holding company in virginia built a search engine that drew you a cloud of related words and let you steer it by hove
• 26 May 2013 Better Place — better place was shai agassi's plan to fix electric vehicles by separating the battery from the car. battery swap stations would let drivers exchange
• 29 May 2013 Civilization World — firaxis put civilization on facebook and removed the one thing that made civilization civilization, which was the turn. it ran in real time in a brows
• 30 May 2013 Camino — camino started in february 2002 as chimera, a side project from dave hyatt and mike pinkerton who thought mac users deserved a cocoa-native browser ra
• 30 May 2013 JManga — thirty-six japanese publishers agreed to put manga online legally in english, which had never happened before and has not happened in that form since.
• 1 Jun 2013 Google Base — google base was google's attempt to run a general-purpose structured-data database in 2005, where anyone could upload xml or excel or csv about anythi
• Jun 2013 Vote for the Worst — most sites that hated a television show reviewed it. this one tried to break it. vote for the worst picked the weakest contestant on american idol eve
• Jun 2013 The Adrenaline Vault — an investment banker who thought the print game magazines had gone soft started a website in 1995 to run reviews nobody had paid for. by 2000 avault w
• Jun 2013 LendInk — amazon let a kindle owner lend a book once, for fourteen days, if the author had chosen the royalty rate that allowed it. dale porter built a site whe
• Jun 2013 ABC Pool — abc pool opened as a public beta in august 2008 inside abc radio national, and asked australians to upload their own audio and photographs under creat
• Jun 2013 Webosaurs — reel fx made animation for shrek and kung fu panda and open season, and in 2009 it built itself a virtual world for five to ten year olds where everyo
• Jun 2013 Yahoo Mail Classic — marissa mayer's redesign shipped in december 2012 and six months later the old interface was switched off for everyone still on it. leaving classic be
• 1 Jun 2013 Adobe Visual Communicator — american middle schools ran morning news bulletins, and for about ten years a lot of them ran on this. serious magic replaced the video timeline with
• Jun 2013 Another.com — 6,596 domain names in may 2000, more than 12,000 by the autumn of 2001, and every single one of them a .co.uk. another.com sold the idea that your ema
• 2 Jun 2013 BBM Music — fifty songs. that was the library you got for $4.99 a month, and the only way to make it bigger was to recruit your blackberry messenger contacts onto
• 4 Jun 2013 Google Building Maker — google building maker let anyone pick a building in one of at least 127 cities and push simple boxes around against aerial photographs until the geome
• 12 Jun 2013 Newsmill — for 50,000 kronor a week you could buy guaranteed placement on newsmill, which explains more about the site than its launch copy ever did. bonnier ope
• 14 Jun 2013 The Sims Social — the sims social was ea's facebook adaptation of the sims franchise, built by playfish and released on 9 august 2011. it took sixty-five million regist
• 14 Jun 2013 Playfish — playfish was the london social-game studio kristian segerstrale and three co-founders started in october 2007, one month after facebook opened its pla
• 14 Jun 2013 SimCity Social — a licensed sequel that inherited a franchise name it could not carry. simcity social was a facebook city-builder built by playfish under the ea logo,
• 17 Jun 2013 Empires & Allies — zynga's biggest launch ever, for about a month. empires and allies put a combat layer on top of the farmville formula, went out in twelve languages on
• 18 Jun 2013 Pet Society — pet society was the playfish facebook game where you raised a cartoon pet, washed it in a bathtub, dressed it from a clothes shop and visited your fri
• 19 Jun 2013 Falcon Pro — falcon pro was an android twitter client written by joaquim verges, released to the play store in december 2012 and finished six and a half months lat
• 19 Jun 2013 DotAlicious — dota 2 had not left beta when it emptied the warcraft iii ladders, and dotalicious was one of them. it opened in april 2010 on rented german servers.
• 21 Jun 2013 Acetrax — a zürich company that sold films over the internet to televisions, back when a television could barely manage it, by getting its software installed at
• 28 Jun 2013 Songbird — songbird was the open-source music player that wanted to be firefox for music. mozilla xulrunner underneath with an extension marketplace on top. it s
• 28 Jun 2013 Yahoo Axis — axis was yahoo's browser experiment, launched may 23 2012 as an extension for chrome, firefox, internet explorer and safari with companion ios apps fo
• 28 Jun 2013 WiiConnect24 — wiiconnect24 was nintendo's always-on backbone for the wii. it kept the console phoning home in standby, drawing about 9.6 watts instead of 1.3, so an
• 28 Jun 2013 Everybody Votes Channel — nintendo shipped a free channel in 2007 whose entire content was a question with two answers. you voted with your mii, and a few days later the consol
• 28 Jun 2013 Check Mii Out Channel — nintendo shipped a free wii channel whose entire purpose was showing off the little avatars people had made of themselves. you submitted a mii and it
• 30 Jun 2013 Nextel iDEN Network — nextel was the us push-to-talk carrier built on motorola's iden protocol. its defining sound was the chirp: a half-second beep that meant the person o
• 30 Jun 2013 PublicPost — publicpost.ru launched on 28 november 2011 as a russian answer to the huffington post, half blog platform and half political reporting. the money came
• 30 Jun 2013 Clipboard — gary flake had run microsoft live labs and yahoo research before he started clipboard in january 2011, and his pitch was that saving things would be t
• 1 Jul 2013 Google Reader — the RSS reader. you subscribed to feeds from blogs, news sites, friends' personal pages. the reader checked everything in the background. you opened i
• 1 Jul 2013 FoxyTunes — foxytunes was a tiny strip on the firefox toolbar that controlled whatever music player you had open behind it. play, pause, next, song title. it work
• 1 Jul 2013 DivShare — a file host from the years when the web still needed one, built for podcasters and teachers who wanted to embed audio and video without running a serv
• 1 Jul 2013 SightSpeed — sightspeed made video calls that looked better than everyone else's when video calls still stuttered and froze, which in the early 2000s was most of t
• Jul 2013 1-800-FREE-411 — in october 2006 the chief executive said out loud that the company lost about five cents on every call it answered, and then raised thirty million dol
• 1 Jul 2013 ThinkQuest — allan h. weis built a web-design contest for schoolchildren in 1996 and paid for it out of the nonprofit he had left over from selling a piece of the
• Jul 2013 BO.LT — five million dollars from benchmark capital paid for a button that copied any page on the web, let you rewrite it and handed you a short link to the r
• 4 Jul 2013 OmniGraphSketcher — robin stewart started it at williams college in 2003, turned it into an mit master's thesis, and sold both the app and himself to the omni group in 20
• 6 Jul 2013 Winny — isamu kaneko posted the first build of winny to a 2channel board in may 2002 under the handle 47, and the kyoto police arrested him two years later fo
• 8 Jul 2013 AltaVista — the first search engine that actually returned useful results. DEC built it to demo their alpha cpus. it was the default search engine of the late 199
• 8 Jul 2013 Yahoo! Neighbors — sacramento and san carlos got it first, in november 2007, out of a hack day project by a product manager on the yahoo local team. the idea was a discu
• 12 Jul 2013 Identi.ca — identi.ca was the canadian developer evan prodromou's flagship instance of statusnet, the open-source microblogging server software he originally call
• 15 Jul 2013 Xanga — the US blog platform that was huge in american high schools from 2002 to 2007. eprops, subscriptions to your friends' blogs, weekly themes, questrings
• 15 Jul 2013 Personal Ancestral File — paf was written by the church of jesus christ of latter-day saints because the church wanted families entered into a database and the people doing the
• 17 Jul 2013 Bebo — the social network that owned UK, Ireland, New Zealand, and a few other english-speaking markets from 2005 to 2010. AOL bought it in 2008 for 850 mill
• 18 Jul 2013 Ravenwood Fair — john romero arrived at lolapps on 1 august 2010 and shipped ravenwood fair on facebook eleven weeks later. six months after that it had twenty five mi
• 24 Jul 2013 PerfSpot — in august 2007 nielsen made a phoenix startup the fastest growing social network in britain, up 756 percent in four months, running past facebook's ow
• 24 Jul 2013 Snapjoy — six months after dropbox acquired the team, a post went up on the snapjoy blog saying imports were off as of that morning and every photo would be del
• 25 Jul 2013 Yahoo! Stars India — 25 july 2013 was a bad day to be a small yahoo product. twelve of them were switched off at once and the headline went to altavista, which is how a ce
• 26 Jul 2013 Voxeo — aspect software closed its purchase on 26 july 2013 and a fourteen year old telephony company went inside somebody else's product catalog. voxeo's who
• 27 Jul 2013 Stick Figure Death Theatre — breaking the rules of entertainment was the slogan, and the rule being broken was that a cartoon needs characters you can tell apart. matt calvert sta
• 31 Jul 2013 Xtranormal — xtranormal handed anyone a movie studio with a two-line learning curve. you typed dialogue and picked two characters at a desk, and it read the words
• 31 Jul 2013 Soocial — viadeo bought the amsterdam startup soocial in november 2011 for its contact syncing and turned the syncing off on 31 july 2013. roughly 120,000 peopl
• Aug 2013 PC World (print) — idg's flagship consumer-pc print magazine. first issue march 1983 by david bunnell and cheryl woodard, the same pair behind macworld a year later. fir
• Aug 2013 Puretracks — puretracks was canada's answer to the itunes store, launched in october 2003 out of a company called moontaxi that had been piping streaming music int
• Aug 2013 PubSub — bob wyman and salim ismail built it in 2002 around an idea they called prospective search. an ordinary engine holds documents and runs your query agai
• 1 Aug 2013 Mister Wong — mister wong was germany's answer to delicious and for a few years it beat delicious inside germany, which almost nothing did in any category. it ran o
• Aug 2013 Indiaplaza — fabmart opened in bangalore in june 1999 and was the first real online store in india, which meant it had to build the payment method and the delivery
• Aug 2013 Yozm — yozm was daum's microblog, launched in february 2010 with a 150-character box and some social gaming bolted onto it. it reached around three million u
• Aug 2013 Windows Live Home — outlook.com killed it by not having a front door. windows live home was the dashboard microsoft put at home.live.com in october 2007 to hold hotmail a
• 2 Aug 2013 X10 Wireless Technology — 28.6 million people arrived at x10.com in may 2001, which put it fifth on the web behind aol and microsoft, and hardly any of them meant to go there.
• 4 Aug 2013 Freedom Hosting — the fbi took the servers in the first days of august 2013 and then left them switched on, which is the part that changed things. anyone loading a page
• 4 Aug 2013 Tor Mail — one raid took it out and the raid was not even aimed at the mail. tor mail had run since about 2010 as a hidden service on freedom hosting, promising
• 5 Aug 2013 Astrid — astrid was an open-source todo app started in 2008. it built a cult on android with a green octopus mascot and a clean priority model. yahoo acquired
• 8 Aug 2013 Lavabit — lavabit was a small encrypted email service that ended up with one very famous customer, edward snowden. in 2013 the federal government demanded the p
• 8 Aug 2013 Flud — at the end of 2010 flud was adding a user every four seconds and fast company had just called its ipad layout the best interface design of the year. t
• 9 Aug 2013 Google Latitude — google latitude was google maps' location-sharing layer from 2009 to 2013. you opted in, and your friends saw a small dot on the map wherever you were
• 9 Aug 2013 Silent Mail — jon callas wrote the notice himself and the striking line in it was that nothing had happened yet. no subpoena and no warrant from anybody. lavabit ha
• 13 Aug 2013 0x10c — markus persson announced it on 3 april 2012, four months after stepping back from minecraft, and the piece people actually built things with was a fic
• 16 Aug 2013 Fleck — oakland, california, where a studio best known for a mobile casino game built a massively multiplayer world on top of google maps. fleck let you garde
• 18 Aug 2013 GoMusicNow — nine cents bought a song and nineteen cents bought a better copy of it, but the wallet you loaded to pay with needed twenty dollars in it before the s
• 20 Aug 2013 Current TV — current tv was an american cable channel that lived in the us cable bundle for eight years and never broadcast outside the united states. it started i
• 20 Aug 2013 Groklaw — groklaw was one paralegal and her readership doing the work the technology press could not be bothered with, which was reading every filing in sco aga
• 21 Aug 2013 Orbit Downloader — eset published the finding on 21 august 2013: one of the most downloaded free download managers for windows had been fetching a target list from its o
• 26 Aug 2013 Microsoft Points — the virtual currency for xbox live and zune that almost nobody could convert in their head. 80 points to the dollar was the joke, except 79 also showe
• 29 Aug 2013 FusionFall — for four and a half years cartoon network ran a real mmo with player housing and a subscription card you bought at target. the kids who played it were
• 30 Aug 2013 Catch Notes — catch notes was the android note-taking app that briefly looked like it could pressure evernote. four million users at peak, $9.3 million in funding f
• 30 Aug 2013 Xbox Live Arcade — a 50 MB size limit is what made it work. developers who could not fit a retail game into that had to make something else instead, and what they made w
• 30 Aug 2013 Daum Yozm — twitter reached korea first and never let go of it. daum's answer opened in february 2010 with a 150 character ceiling and social games bolted onto th
• 31 Aug 2013 RockMelt — rockmelt opened in november 2010 from tim howes and eric vishria with marc andreessen's name on the cap table and the same pitch flock had been making
• 31 Aug 2013 Microsoft TechNet Subscription — it started as a stack of discs in the post carrying the whole microsoft knowledge base, and became the cheapest legal way for an it professional to ge
• 31 Aug 2013 The Oil Drum — two professors started an energy blog in 2005 and accidentally built the last comment section that was better than the articles above it. during the d
• 31 Aug 2013 Pando — one gigabyte was the number pando sold. in 2006 that was an impossible email attachment, and pando's answer was to send a tiny descriptor file instead
• 31 Aug 2013 WeSeed — autumn 2008 was a strange season to launch a website that made the stock market look approachable. weseed handed you fake money and a search engine th
• 31 Aug 2013 Team AlexandriZ — a scanner, a proofreading pass and a numbering scheme kept french publishing awake for four years. team alexandriz took printed novels apart, stripped
• Sep 2013 AlphaSmart — alphasmart made a keyboard with a narrow lcd strip above it and nothing else. no browser and no notifications. american schools bought them by the car
• Sep 2013 Yahoo China — yahoo opened its chinese portal in 1999, bought the toolbar company 3721 for $120 million in 2003, and by 2005 had given up on running the place itsel
• Sep 2013 Atlantis — atlantis opened in march 2013 and spent six months doing the one thing nobody else in this category attempted, which was advertising. it put a cartoon
• Sep 2013 The Plant List — kew and the missouri botanical garden merged their checklists and published one working list of every plant species anybody had ever named, because 19
• Sep 2013 Mobcaster — aubrey levy was an actor and writer who watched a pilot of his own go through round after round of network notes and then never air. mobcaster was his
• 2 Sep 2013 Blip.pl — blip was the polish microblog, started in warsaw in may 2007 and sold to gadu-gadu a month later. what carried it was not the character limit, it was
• 5 Sep 2013 Microsoft Mediaroom — mediaroom was the layer of microsoft you only met if your phone company sold you tv. att u-verse, telus optik, bell fibe, deutsche telekom entertain.
• 8 Sep 2013 Tutorspree — eighty percent of tutorspree's traffic went away in march 2013, inside a single google panda update, and virtually all of its customers had been arriv
• 9 Sep 2013 QtWeb — one executable, no installer, nothing written into the machine you borrowed. qtweb was a webkit browser built for people using computers they did not
• 10 Sep 2013 Apple Cards — apple shipped the cards app on october 12, 2011 alongside the iphone 4s and ios 5. it let you build a physical greeting card from any photo on your ph
• 12 Sep 2013 Chime.in — chime.in was bill gross trying to organize a social network around subjects rather than friends. ubermedia opened the public beta on 18 october 2011 w
• 16 Sep 2013 Tencent Soso — tencent had qq, the dominant chinese instant messenger of the era, and it wanted a search engine to match. so it built soso in 2006 and bolted the sea
• 16 Sep 2013 Soso — tencent owned the messenger that nearly every person online in china had open, and it pointed that audience at its own search engine for seven years.
• 19 Sep 2013 Pirates of the Caribbean Online — the disney mmo built around the pirates of the caribbean films. it launched on halloween 2007 with character creation and ship combat, set in a caribb
• 19 Sep 2013 Pixie Hollow — the disney fairies mmo built as a tie-in to the tinker bell film franchise. you created a fairy with a talent type and dressed her in seasonal clothin
• 19 Sep 2013 Toontown Online — the disney mmo where you played a small cartoon dog or cat or rabbit fighting off business-suit robots called cogs. it launched in 2003. disney shut i
• 20 Sep 2013 Urtak — a polling widget that publishers dropped underneath their articles, built in new york by aaron gibralter and marc lizoain. every question took one of
• 21 Sep 2013 Cookie Jar TV — on 21 september 2013 cbs aired a saturday morning cartoon block for the last time. it had carried three different names in seven years, and every one
• 30 Sep 2013 WebTV / MSN TV — the set-top box that connected a normal TV to the internet via a phone line and a hand-held remote keyboard. launched as webtv in 1996. bought by micr
• Sep 2013 Facebook Credits — facebook spent four years pretending its own coupon would beat the dollar. ten credits per dollar, facebook took thirty percent, zynga took the rest.
• 30 Sep 2013 FileMaker Bento — bento was the consumer face of filemaker. forty-nine dollars for a single license, ninety-nine for a five-pack, mac only at launch with an iphone and
• 30 Sep 2013 OMGPop — a small new york flash game studio that hit escape velocity with draw something in early 2012. zynga paid one hundred and eighty million dollars for i
• 30 Sep 2013 MediaCorp Teletext — certificate of entitlement prices and the 4d lottery draw are what a singaporean actually typed a page number for, and from 1 august 1983 those pages
• 30 Sep 2013 Avid DS — ten thousand dollars of software, and the only way to conform an avid project at 2k or 4k. built in montreal by softimage while microsoft still owned
• 1 Oct 2013 Worth1000 — worth1000 was the early-2000s english-language photoshop scene given a competitive structure. for almost twelve years avi muchnick and israel derdik r
• 1 Oct 2013 Cue — personal search that turned into a personal assistant and then into an acquisition. it opened in 2010 as greplin, one search box over the accounts you
• Oct 2013 FlashPix — kodak, microsoft, hewlett-packard and a small california company called live picture agreed on an image format in 1996. the file held your picture at
• 1 Oct 2013 Nirvanix — a letter dated 16 september 2013 gave nirvanix customers until the end of that month to get their data out. some of them were storing petabytes. the c
• 2 Oct 2013 Silk Road — the first anonymous market at real scale. it proved that tor and bitcoin could move actual money for actual contraband, and it proved the fbi would fi
• 7 Oct 2013 Shadow Cities — grey area launched shadow cities in finland on 10 november 2010, an iphone game that drew a map of wherever you were standing and cut it into gateways
• 15 Oct 2013 AmpliFIND — twenty-two million audio fingerprints sat in a database that could name a tagless mp3 by listening to it. musicdns did that from 2006, first under mus
• 17 Oct 2013 Lakome.com — two editors who had already been shut down in print started an independent news site in december 2010, one running it in arabic and the other in frenc
• 17 Oct 2013 Windows SideShow — january 2007, and microsoft ships an api for a class of hardware that did not exist yet and largely never came to exist. sideshow pushed mail and rss
• 17 Oct 2013 2K Marin — take-two has still never said this studio closed. 2K announced it on 17 december 2007, built it in novato specifically to make bioshock 2 without ken
• 21 Oct 2013 isoHunt — isoHunt was a canadian torrent index that ran for ten years on the argument that it was just a search engine. the MPAA disagreed and the los angeles f
• 21 Oct 2013 CryptoSeal — the court documents in the lavabit case became public in october 2013, and ryan lackey read them and closed his own product two weeks later. cryptosea
• 25 Oct 2013 Amazon AskVille — askville was amazon's user driven question and answer community that ran from december 2006 to october 2013. members earned experience points and a vi
• 26 Oct 2013 FriendBinder — the goodbye went up on the project blog at 23:22 on 9 october 2013, three years after the previous post. richard cunningham gave his users seventeen d
• 30 Oct 2013 Qype — a german answer to yelp, built city by city because that is the only way a review site gets built. hamburg first, then everywhere in western europe th
• 30 Oct 2013 Sky Text — on 23 october 2012 ceefax ended and every obituary in britain treated that as the death of teletext. sky text kept broadcasting for another year and a
• 31 Oct 2013 BattleForge — battleforge was an electronic arts real time strategy game where your army was a deck of cards you bought and traded on an in-game auction house, then
• 31 Oct 2013 Dragon Ball Online — dragon ball online was a korean mmo set 216 years after the end of dragon ball z, with a timeline and a cast of new villains that akira toriyama desig
• 31 Oct 2013 Swapnote — swapnote shipped free on the 3ds eshop in december 2011 and let you write a note by hand with a photo or a sound attached, then send it to a friend on
• 31 Oct 2013 NexTView — october 2013 is when the last transmitter stopped, and by then there was only one left. nextview was a program guide that european television manufact
• 1 Nov 2013 iGoogle — igoogle was google's customizable home page. you opened a tab and a grid of widgets you had picked yourself was sitting there. weather next to your gm
• 1 Nov 2013 Dopplr — a london travel-plans social network for the tech-press conference circuit. nokia bought it in 2009, stopped updating the blog two days later, and fin
• Nov 2013 Raditaz — raditaz was one of the many pandora-style radio services that bloomed in the early 2010s, a free app that built stations from tags and let you pin the
• Nov 2013 Black Market Reloaded — the market that inherited silk road's traffic and decided it could not carry it. black market reloaded ran on tor from 2011 and allowed what silk road
• 1 Nov 2013 Smolt — fedora's hardware census. it shipped with fedora 7 in may 2007 and asked, politely and once, whether you wanted to send an anonymous list of what was
• 1 Nov 2013 Online Pass — ten dollars, printed on a slip of cardboard inside the game case, was the price of making a used disc worth less. buy the game new and the code came f
• 1 Nov 2013 Full Screen Mario — one month after boing boing linked to it, fullscreenmario.com was serving about three hundred thousand visits a day and josh goldberg was a junior at
• 1 Nov 2013 Kindernet — a finnish producer who thought children's cartoons had turned too violent put kindernet on a satellite on 1 march 1988, beaming into the netherlands f
• Nov 2013 Twitscoop — philippe breuils shipped this in may 2008, and a year later half a million people were watching a tag cloud that grew a word only when that word start
• 4 Nov 2013 Wapedia — florian amrhein put wikipedia on a wap phone in august 2004, years before the wikimedia foundation got around to it, at an address that ended in .mobi
• 5 Nov 2013 Everpix — everpix was a photo backup service that vacuumed up every image from your phone and your social feeds, deduped them, and showed you a clean scrollable
• 5 Nov 2013 Albumatic — adam ludwin was a venture investor at rre who had put the firm into vine, and in february 2013 he left to build a photo app in the most crowded catego
• 6 Nov 2013 YouTube comments (the original era) — the comment section of youtube before google forced it through google+ in 2013. it was famously bad. flame wars. spam. the worst possible takes about
• 6 Nov 2013 Rocketboom — rocketboom was the daily video newscast produced by andrew baron in new york city between october 2004 and november 2013. amanda congdon hosted the fi
• 6 Nov 2013 Jumptap — jumptap.com answers 404 today, and the error page it serves is titled Yahoo. that single fact contains the whole corporate lineage: millennial media b
• 11 Nov 2013 Bread — yahoo announced it had bought bread on 11 october 2013 and the links were given thirty days. the product was a url shortener with a tollbooth in it: c
• 12 Nov 2013 paidContent — rafat ali started paidcontent in 2002 as a blog about who was actually making money from digital content, at a moment when the honest answer was almos
• Nov 2013 YouTube Original Channel Initiative — one hundred million dollars in production money and two hundred million more in marketing bought google about 160 funded channels, madonna and jay-z a
• 18 Nov 2013 OpenLife Grid — fifty thousand accounts were created on a virtual world run by one australian out of a company called 3dx, and for a couple of years around 2008 that
• 18 Nov 2013 gdgt — peter rojas started gizmodo, then started engadget, then left to build the thing neither of them had: a structured page for every gadget, with buttons
• 20 Nov 2013 Google Currents — google currents was the news reader google tried before it tried google play newsstand, which it tried before it tried google news app, which it tried
• 20 Nov 2013 Google Checkout — google's attempt to own the checkout button the way paypal already did. it launched in 2006 with cheap processing and the whole search empire behind i
• 22 Nov 2013 Joli OS — joli os was a cloud-centric linux distribution built for the asus eee pc era of netbooks. tariq krim, of netvibes, founded jolicloud alongside romain
• 23 Nov 2013 LightScribe — hewlett-packard showed lightscribe at ces in january 2004 and the demo did exactly what the name promised. you burned your data and then put the disc
• 30 Nov 2013 Food Force — the united nations shipped a video game. the world food programme paid for food force, released it free on 14 april 2005, and six million people downl
• 30 Nov 2013 Daily Source Code — on 13 august 2004 adam curry published an audio file mainly so that developers writing download software had something to point their code at. it ran
• 30 Nov 2013 Wikimapy.cz — seznam.cz opened a mediawiki in june 2006 and asked czech walkers to write the descriptions of the castles and the ponds themselves, then shipped what
• Dec 2013 Memepool — memepool was the multiple-author link weblog joshua schachter started in 1998 with jeff smith. the format was one short post per item, with a link out
• Dec 2013 Where I've Been — a facebook application that turned your travel history into a colored-in world map, written by one freelance developer in 2007 and large enough within
• Dec 2013 Sheep Marketplace — sheep opened in march 2013 as one of dozens of small tor markets and became one of the largest by accident, when the fbi took silk road off the networ
• Dec 2013 ClanBase — clanbase started in october 1998 as a dutch ladder where quake ii clans arranged wars against each other, and it grew into the place european competit
• Dec 2013 TheWB.com — a television network that had already stopped broadcasting came back in 2008 as a website. warner bros put the old wb catalog online, gilmore girls an
• Dec 2013 Terminal Reality — the news came off a facebook post. in december 2013 a man who had worked at terminal reality for ten years wrote that the place seemed to have finally
• Dec 2013 GeoURL — a meta tag with two numbers in it was the whole protocol. geourl read the coordinates off your page and told you which other pages sat near it, which
• Dec 2013 HipGeo — the founders had sold a company to yahoo in 1999 and watched it get folded into geocities, so they knew exactly what happens to a place people keep th
• 2 Dec 2013 Hyves — hyves was the social network of the netherlands. founded in october 2004 by three dutch students, it grew through the late 2000s until more than 10 mi
• 2 Dec 2013 Turntable.fm — turntable.fm launched in may 2011 from new york with a single great idea. you walked into a virtual room and sat at one of five dj booths. you played
• 2 Dec 2013 OCZ Technology — ryan petersen ran an overclocking store and turned it into a memory brand in august 2002, back when the ram in your machine was a thing you argued abo
• 3 Dec 2013 Yahoo! Japan Encyclopedia — one hundred and thirty thousand entries out of shogakukan's nipponica went online for nothing on 27 november 2008 and came back off on 3 december 2013
• 3 Dec 2013 Narenji — the irgc's sarollah headquarters took fourteen people out of a small office in kerman on 3 december 2013. they reviewed phones for a living. eleven of
• 4 Dec 2013 HotFile — the second cyberlocker shoe to drop. ran the megaupload economic model from a panama shell with anton titov operating it from florida. the mpaa stripp
• 4 Dec 2013 eBuddy — ebuddy was the dutch web-based instant messenger that let you sign into msn, yahoo, aim, icq, and gtalk from any browser without installing anything.
• 6 Dec 2013 Evntlive — a live concert platform out of redwood city, open to the public from 15 april 2013, that streamed bon jovi and a run of american festival sets to anyb
• 9 Dec 2013 Breakfast Network — bertha henson spent twenty-six years at the straits times and then started her own site, which ran for about eight months before the media development
• 10 Dec 2013 Google Trader — kampala got it before anyone else. google trader started in june 2009 inside google sms in uganda, a classifieds market you worked by texting a shortc
• 10 Dec 2013 ClaimID — two phd students at chapel hill built it in 2006 to answer a question that now sounds quaint: what does the web say about you, and which of it did you
• 15 Dec 2013 Uboot.com — uboot started as a free sms machine attached to a profile page, which in 2000 was enough to make it one of the fastest growing youth communities in th
• 16 Dec 2013 Iceape — moritz muehlenhoff sent the email on 16 december 2013 and it ran to a few lines: security support for iceape had to stop early, users should move to i
• 18 Dec 2013 Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning — mythic spent five years building a realm-versus-realm engine for the warhammer fantasy license and shipped it into a market that had already converged
• 19 Dec 2013 Vidalia — for almost eight years the way you knew tor was running was a small onion sitting in your system tray. vidalia was the control panel behind it, writte
• 20 Dec 2013 Winamp — it really whips the llama's ass. winamp was the mp3 player on every windows computer from about 1998 to 2005. nullsoft made it. AOL bought nullsoft in
• 20 Dec 2013 Presseurop — presseurop was an aggregator that translated european press coverage into ten languages, funded by the european commission. it launched on 25 may 2009
• 20 Dec 2013 Spill.com — spill.com came out of an austin cable-access show and turned film criticism into cartoons. the crew reviewed movies as animated versions of themselves
• 25 Dec 2013 Wikifonia — it came out of ghent in 2006, built by a handful of belgian colleges, and it answered the one question every free sheet music site eventually gets ask
• 26 Dec 2013 Wretch.cc — wretch began in 1999 as a campus bbs at national chiao tung university in hsinchu, run by a computer science undergrad named chien chih-yu. by 2003 it
• 27 Dec 2013 NowPublic — nowpublic came out of vancouver in 2005 arguing that the people already standing where news happens outnumber the reporters who have to be flown there
• 27 Dec 2013 Vdio — a video store bolted onto a music subscription, built by one of the people who made skype. it opened on 2 april 2013 with twenty five dollars of credi
• 27 Dec 2013 Yandex.Otkrytki — 27 december 2013, four days before the single busiest greeting night in russia. yandex closed открытки with no announcement and no stated reason, afte
• 31 Dec 2013 AllThingsD — allthingsd was the wall street journal tech blog that kara swisher and walt mossberg ran from 2007 to 2013, an offshoot of the d conference series the
• 2013 3Com — 3com was the network-hardware company robert metcalfe started in 1979 to sell ethernet adapters to anyone who wanted computers to talk to each other.
• 31 Dec 2013 SOAPnet — soapnet sat in the part of us-cable history that did not reach turkish carriers. disney and abc spun it up in january 2000 to run primetime encores of
• Dec 2013 Postini — postini was the cloud spam filter that sat in front of fortune-500 mail servers in the 2000s, before "cloud" was the word for it. google bought it in
• 2013 Microsoft Surface Table — the surface table was a 30-inch rear-projection touchscreen built into a coffee-table cabinet, announced by steve ballmer at the all things d conferen
• 31 Dec 2013 Quaero — quaero is latin for i seek, and it was announced in april 2005 by the president of france and the chancellor of germany as the european search engine
• 31 Dec 2013 Bitzi — before you downloaded a file off a stranger there was no way to know what was in it. bitzi hashed files and let volunteers write down what each finger
• 2013 Gawab — gawab was arabic-language webmail run out of alexandria in egypt from 1999, and for most of the 2000s it was the mail service a large part of the arab
• 31 Dec 2013 Goozex — goozex never touched a single game it traded. it ran a queue, matched a person who wanted a title with a person who had it, and told one of them to pu
• 31 Dec 2013 Wibiya — wibiya made the bar that floated along the bottom edge of a blog, the one with the share buttons on one side and a search box on the other. it was fre
• 31 Dec 2013 Ekolay — doğan online built the portal that taught turkish households the word internet, then spent a decade watching facebook take the audience off it. the la
• 2013 mp3music — acum, the society that collects for israeli composers and lyricists, had a licensee among the lyrics sites, which in the 2000s was close to unheard of
• 2013 Chuang Yi — an australian distributor worked out that the company was gone. madman entertainment posted a notice on 7 february 2014 saying it could no longer resu
• 31 Dec 2013 Metaverse Books — eighty minutes is the whole death certificate. a storefront image served fine at 00:34 utc on the last day of 2013 and the same server was throwing 50

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