Death Anniversaries, 2014

every grave in this cemetery, by year of death. this page covers 2014.

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~ 2014 ~

2014 Cleverbot — the chatbot that learned from every conversation it ever had. it ran on recycled human responses, which is why it would say something weirdly perfect,
1 Jan 2014 Symbian OS — the OS that ran every nokia smartphone from about 2000 to 2011. peak market share over 60 percent globally in 2007. then iphone, then android, then th
2014 Gateway Computers — gateway 2000 was started in 1985 in a sioux city farmhouse by ted waitt and mike hammond, sold mail-order pcs in boxes printed with holstein cow marki
2014 hakia — a turkish nuclear physicist and a finnish economist launched a semantic search engine out of new york in 2004. it wanted to answer questions using ont
2014 MetaCrawler — metacrawler was the first search box that did not search anything itself. erik selberg built it as a grad-school project at the university of washingt
2014 Miranda IM — miranda was the client you ran when you were tired of keeping two messengers open. it started life as a lightweight icq clone and grew into a plugin b
2014 SocialGO — socialgo was a london company's answer to ning, a hosted builder that let you make your own social network without writing any code. it listed on the
2014 Ajeeb.com — the web was in english and most of the arab world was not, so sakhr software pointed its machine-translation engine at the gap and opened a portal in
2014 Anime Web Turnpike — jay fubler harvey put the anime web turnpike online in august 1995 as a hub: a page of links to other people's anime and manga sites, sorted by catego
2014 Goom Radio — two senior people walked out of nrj, france's biggest top 40 network, to build the same thing with no transmitters in it. sixteen million dollars of v
2014 Everloop — everloop was a social network for eight to thirteen year olds, built to be legal under coppa during the years when every american parent had just work
2014 Koolmuzone — koolmuzone was a pakistani music blog started in 2004 by hamad dar, one person covering the mainstream and the underground out of the same inbox. unsi
Jan 2014 Scirus — scirus was elsevier's free science search engine, launched in 2001 and reaching 167 million indexed pages. it looked past journals into patents and th
2014 Mozilla Labs — december 2013 is the last post on the mozilla labs blog, and nobody ever wrote a final one. the incubator opened in august 2006 and had quietly stoppe
Jan 2014 True.com — forty-three million member records were the most valuable thing left when true beginnings went into chapter 11 in 2013, and they turned out to be the
1 Jan 2014 ArchLord — one player per server, for four weeks at a time, with a castle and the ability to change the weather over everyone else's heads. that was the whole pi
2014 Sybase — four people started it in berkeley in 1984 and built the database that ran wall street trading floors through the nineties. in 1988 they licensed the
2014 Chromaroma — london's transport network was the board. chromaroma read the journey history off your registered oyster card and scored it, so that going to work bec
Jan 2014 Impermium — 1.5 million websites were paying impermium to decide which of their new signups were real people, tumblr and disqus among them. in january 2014 google
2014 Groovle — google filed a complaint with the national arbitration forum on 6 november 2009 arguing that groovle.com sat two letters away from its own name. the p
2 Jan 2014 Ptch — a mobile video remix app spun out of dreamworks animation's cto office, launched november 2012, acquired by yahoo december 2013 in an acqui-hire and s
2 Jan 2014 Conduit toolbar — conduit let anybody build a browser toolbar for free and then made its money on the search box inside it. by 2010 more than a hundred million of those
6 Jan 2014 Yahoo! omg! — yahoo omg was the celebrity gossip property yahoo built in 2007, when celebrity gossip was a thing portals built whole verticals around. it pulled fro
7 Jan 2014 MOBTV — mediacorp online broadband television launched in august 2008 as singapore's national broadcaster selling its own back catalog by subscription, stream
12 Jan 2014 Blockbuster — blockbuster opened its first store in dallas in october 1985 and grew into a 9000-store chain by the mid-2000s. it passed on buying netflix for fifty
16 Jan 2014 Letternet — a national post office ran a pen-pal club for sixteen years and it worked. letternet matched strangers by language and country, then posted you the ad
18 Jan 2014 Trickster Online — a 2d isometric korean mmo from 2003 where you played an animal and dug holes. the drill system gave it a second way to play that involved no fighting
20 Jan 2014 Legacy Locker — three hundred dollars bought you a lifetime, and the lifetime lasted until november 2013, when passwordbox bought the company and gave everyone sixty
2014 TorChat — nothing was announced. the last commit landed on 20 january 2014 and nothing came after it, which is how a messenger with a thousand stars on github a
21 Jan 2014 Outbox — outbox tried to digitize the us physical mail stream. drivers picked up envelopes from a customer's mailbox three days a week, scanned the contents at
21 Jan 2014 Canvas Networks — canvas was christopher poole's serious startup after 4chan. an image-remix community built with proper accounts and moderation on top of a real busine
22 Jan 2014 Mythos — mythos was a free-to-play diablo clone built by flagship studios as a side project alongside the doomed hellgate: london. when flagship collapsed in j
Jan 2014 Mahalo — mahalo's pitch was that humans could outperform google's algorithm at building search results. google disagreed within four years. jason calacanis ran
28 Jan 2014 MAG — two hundred and fifty six players in a single battle, on a playstation 3, in january 2010. zipper interactive built mag as a persistent territorial wa
28 Jan 2014 SOCOM U.S. Navy SEALs: Confrontation — the box came with a bluetooth headset, because the entire game was voice and the entire game was online. confrontation had no campaign, only sixteen-p
30 Jan 2014 Sketchfu — the goodbye was written in the first person and it thanked the volunteer moderators by their shared account name. sketchfu ran about seven years as a
31 Jan 2014 Bump — bump launched in march 2009 with a gimmick that turned out to be a real product. tap two phones together and the app would exchange contact cards or p
31 Jan 2014 Jajah — jajah was a small austrian voip company that built a clever trick. you typed your own phone number and the other person's phone number into a web form
31 Jan 2014 Microsoft InfoPath — infopath was microsoft's xml-based electronic-forms designer. it shipped as part of office 2003 on 21 october 2003 and was killed on 31 january 2014 w
31 Jan 2014 CrossLoop — crossloop was a freemium screen-sharing tool from a monterey california startup that ran 2006 to 2014. tom rolander and mrinal desai started it after
31 Jan 2014 Manymoon — manymoon was a shared task-and-project tracker from 2009 that got big by being one of the first hits in google's apps marketplace, sitting right next
31 Jan 2014 WWE Classics on Demand — wwe owns one of the largest privately held video archives on earth, well past 100,000 hours running back to the 1950s and swollen further by buying wc
31 Jan 2014 INQ Mobile — a small london outfit inside hutchison whampoa built the phone everyone else was still writing rumor pieces about. the inq1 shipped in december 2008 w
31 Jan 2014 Google Notifier — for nine years the fastest way to learn you had mail was a small envelope in the corner of your screen, put there by a program whose only job was watc
Feb 2014 Willow Garage — willow garage was a private robotics research lab in menlo park, funded personally by scott hassan from 2006 through early 2014. it built the pr2 huma
Feb 2014 Volunia — volunia was an italian search engine built in padua by massimo marchiori, whose 1997 work on hyper search sits in the citation trail behind pagerank.
Feb 2014 The Global Mail — an australian newsroom with no advertising and no paywall, funded by one man who had promised five years and delivered two. it launched on 6 february
1 Feb 2014 myOpenID — janrain ran the best known free openid provider on the web, then announced in september 2013 that the standard had lost. the login button people actua
Feb 2014 Splashup — two people in y combinator's summer 2007 batch built a photoshop clone that ran inside a flash plugin, with real layers and a canvas close enough to t
Feb 2014 vTap — $28 million went into veveo before vtap shipped in september 2007, and what it bought was a video search engine that narrowed its results on every key
3 Feb 2014 ValueClick — valueclick was one of the original dot-com era online ad networks, founded in 1998 in westlake village, california by brian coryat and built around th
5 Feb 2014 Tap Tap Revenge — nate true wrote it for a jailbroken iphone in september 2007, before apple had shipped a way for anyone to write anything. it was bought and renamed,
7 Feb 2014 Open Diary — open diary was the first online journaling site on the web, launched october 20, 1998 by bruce ableson with his wife susan, who used the handles diary
7 Feb 2014 Google Schemer — a google side project from the post-buzz post-wave era that tried to turn bucket lists into a social graph. invite-only at launch in december 2011, la
Feb 2014 World Cyber Games — wcg was the samsung-backed korean attempt to build an olympics for video games. it ran annually from 2000 to 2013 across counter-strike and warcraft i
7 Feb 2014 Videogum — a pop-culture blog run as the sister site to stereogum from april 2008, built almost entirely on the voice of one writer. gabe delahaye recapped telev
7 Feb 2014 McWorld — a code printed on a happy meal box was the currency of this one. mcdonald's launched mcworld on happymeal.com in 2008, a flash virtual world where chi
10 Feb 2014 Flappy Bird — flappy bird was a free mobile game by a vietnamese developer named dong nguyen. it was released in may 2013, became a global obsession in january 2014
11 Feb 2014 Utopia — utopia opened on 3 february 2014, put together by people connected to black market reloaded, and dutch police took it off the network eight days later
Feb 2014 Dhingana — in december 2013 the biggest music label in india said it would not renew, and by the middle of february the biggest music streaming service in india
18 Feb 2014 Irrational Games — irrational was founded in december 1997 by ken levine and two other ex-looking-glass devs in quincy, massachusetts. system shock 2 in 1999 was the deb
18 Feb 2014 Banshee — banshee was the linux music player that got everything right except the runtime it was built on. for a while it was ambitious and good, the closest th
19 Feb 2014 2channel (2ch.net) — 2channel was japan's canonical anonymous textboard, launched may 30 1999 by hiroyuki nishimura from a college apartment in arkansas. it ran threaded b
21 Feb 2014 Cloud Party — a browser tab was the entire installation, which in 2012 was the whole argument. cloud party put a user-built 3d world on webgl at a moment when the o
24 Feb 2014 Facebook Email — in 2010 facebook decided everyone needed a facebook.com email address and gave one to every user without asking. in 2012 it changed the address listed
25 Feb 2014 Google Chrome Frame — google's answer to internet explorer 6 was not to ask people to switch browsers, but to smuggle chrome inside the browser they were stuck with. a page
27 Feb 2014 Pictures for Sad Children — pictures for sad children ran from 2007 to 2014, a black-and-white webcomic about depression with a ghost named paul in it. a 2012 kickstarter for a p
28 Feb 2014 Mt. Gox — mt. gox was the bitcoin exchange that turned from a magic the gathering card-trading site into the place where seventy percent of the world's bitcoin
28 Feb 2014 Call of Duty: Elite — two million people were paying activision fifty dollars a year to look at their own kill statistics. elite launched on 8 november 2011 next to modern
28 Feb 2014 Shomei TV — five thousand yen was the floor, ten thousand the ceiling, and that price tag arrived on a petition site that had launched in march 2008 letting anyon
28 Feb 2014 Donna — yahoo did not want the app. it wanted the five people who built it, and it put them on yahoo mail. donna lasted eight months in the app store, long en
Mar 2014 Hunch — hunch launched in 2009 as a question game that tried to predict what you would like, from movies to gadgets, out of a taste graph built from your answ
Mar 2014 Zootool — zootool was a bookmarking service that treated your saved links as pictures. instead of a list of blue text it gave you a grid of thumbnails, the imag
Mar 2014 BackWeb Technologies — push was the idea that the web should come to you instead of you going to it, and for about eighteen months in the late nineties three companies were
Mar 2014 Flirtomatic — nokia asked a design agency for five mobile ideas, somebody in the room noticed that what they had been describing all afternoon was flirting, and tha
Mar 2014 Google Offers — google tried to buy groupon for around six billion dollars in december 2010 and got turned down, so it built its own. google offers opened on 26 may 2
Mar 2014 AIBO — sony put the first aibo out on may 11 1999 at two hundred and fifty thousand yen and the japanese run of three thousand sold out online in twenty minu
1 Mar 2014 Series Yonkis — series yonkis was where spain watched television for most of a decade. it hosted nothing itself. it kept an index of links to files sitting on other p
Mar 2014 Wildfire Interactive — a $250,000 grant from the facebook fund in 2008 turned into a company that ran the promotions behind half the brand pages on facebook, and google boug
Mar 2014 YiGG — digg.de was the original address, and the name had to change for legal reasons before the site was two years old. from 1 january 2006 yigg ran the dig
Mar 2014 Pegasus News — dallas got a personalized local news site in december 2006, years before anyone had a settled name for that. pegasus news asked for your zip code and
Mar 2014 GreenXchange — davos, january 2010: nike used its slot at the world economic forum to launch a marketplace where a company could publish a patent with a standing lic
3 Mar 2014 My Opera — opera software ran a side-community for opera users that started in 2001 as a forum and grew into a blog platform with a free webmail service attached
3 Mar 2014 [email protected] — every mail.ru mailbox came with a blog whether the owner wanted one or not, and that single decision made a russian blogging platform bigger than live
5 Mar 2014 QIP — qip stood for quiet internet pager and shipped its first build on november 1 2005 from ilgam zyulkorneev as a lightweight icq-compatible windows clien
5 Mar 2014 MetroTwit — long zheng posted a screenshot of a metro-styled twitter client for windows in march 2010 and had a closed beta running inside the month. with david g
Mar 2014 OLPC XO-1 — the xo-1 was the first hardware shipped under the one laptop per child initiative announced at davos in 2005 by nicholas negroponte. the device had a
11 Mar 2014 Intel AppUp — for four years intel ran an app store. it opened in january 2010 for netbooks, back when a netbook was a product category rather than a punchline, wid
12 Mar 2014 Fitbit Force — fitbit force was a wristband activity tracker released in october 2013 at $129.95 as the upgrade from the fitbit flex. by late january 2014 there were
14 Mar 2014 Popcorn Time — the app that made piracy look like netflix. it wrapped the whole torrent grind inside one clean grid of movie posters you could press play on. its own
14 Mar 2014 TextDrive — two hundred people paid two hundred dollars each in 2004 to buy the hardware a hosting company would run on, and dean allen called them the vc200. the
21 Mar 2014 Streamzoo — streamzoo was instagram with badges. you shared a photo into a "stream" (a themed community), earned badges for contributions, leveled up. launched ap
21 Mar 2014 Jike — jike opened in june 2010 as people's search, a search engine owned by the people's daily and handed to deng yaping, who had four olympic golds at tabl
22 Mar 2014 Lost Zombies — lost zombies was a social network with exactly one story in it. you signed up, and everything you posted had to fit a fictional timeline where a flu m
25 Mar 2014 Epinions — epinions launched in september 1999 in mountain view, founded by nirav tolia and four cofounders with eight million dollars from benchmark and august
26 Mar 2014 Totalmovie — ninety-nine pesos a month bought a catalog that ran across forty latin american markets, and by the end of 2012 totalmovie had 1.9 million registered
26 Mar 2014 BookLamp — boise, idaho is not where book recommendation engines come from, which is part of why aaron stanton had to fly to california and wait outside google's
28 Mar 2014 Widgetbox — widgetbox was the shop where people who could not write code got something moving onto their page. you picked a widget, copied a block of html, and pa
28 Mar 2014 Sparktop — a free website for eight to twelve year olds with dyslexia and other learning differences, put online in october 2003 by the charles and helen schwab
28 Mar 2014 Magic: The Gathering - Tactics — sony online entertainment held a wizards of the coast license and built something out of it that almost nobody had asked for: magic played as a grid t
30 Mar 2014 Distill — yahoo announced the purchase on 13 february 2014 and what it had bought was seven engineers. the product they had spent two years on, a video call wit
31 Mar 2014 Free Realms — free realms was sony online entertainment's bid to build the disney-tier kid mmo on the playstation 3 and the pc at the same time. it shipped on april
31 Mar 2014 Mochi Media — mochi media was the san francisco flash-game distribution and ad-serving network founded in 2005 by bob ippolito and jameson hsu. it claimed about 140
31 Mar 2014 IntoNow — adam cahan's team shipped intonow at the end of january 2011 as a shazam-for-television app. hold your phone up to any show and it told you what was o
31 Mar 2014 Star Wars: Clone Wars Adventures — a browser-based virtual world for kids who watched the animated clone wars show on cartoon network. sony online entertainment ran it as a licensed fre
31 Mar 2014 123people — 123people opened in vienna on 1 july 2007 and did exactly one thing. you typed a person's name, it went out to more than two hundred sources at once,
31 Mar 2014 Nintendo Video — nintendo put a free video app on the 3ds and then did the choosing for you. spotpass pulled four shorts at a time down onto the sd card while the cons
31 Mar 2014 Heroes of Might and Magic Online — tq digital built a chinese mmo out of heroes iii and netdragon published it, three years later than announced, opening on 30 may 2008. it stacked thre
31 Mar 2014 Diesel eBooks — diesel sold ebooks in epub for a decade, which meant it sold to everyone except kindle owners and was therefore fighting over the smaller half of a ma
31 Mar 2014 Data Becker — 39 million marks a year by 1984, three years after two brothers opened a computer accessories shop in düsseldorf. the books were the thing: blue-spine
31 Mar 2014 月刊コミックラッシュ — on 26 january 2011 a japanese manga magazine printed its last issue and did not die. it moved to a website, charged 450 yen a month for the current nu
31 Mar 2014 DreamBook — half a million personal websites once ended with a link that said sign my guestbook, and a very large share of those books lived on one server run by
31 Mar 2014 SecondSync — every tweet sent at a british television show passed through a small company in london and bristol for about three years, and the league table it prod
31 Mar 2014 NHS Direct — england had one number for the question you could not quite justify an ambulance over. 0845 46 47 reached a nurse at any hour of any day, from march 1
Apr 2014 Mevio — mevio was the san francisco podcast network founded on 1 october 2004 as podshow inc. by adam curry and ron bloom. it opened as the flagship ad networ
Apr 2014 Farecast — it answered one question, which was whether to buy the ticket today or wait, and it attached a confidence figure so you could argue with it. behind th
Apr 2014 Ryushare — 132 billion dong moved from a domestic payments company into one man's account in bình dương province between january 2013 and march 2014, and that le
Apr 2014 Blottr — adam baker started blottr in august 2010 to let anyone in london file a news story, and inside a year it had over five thousand contributors and 1.4 m
Apr 2014 Digital Chocolate — trip hawkins founded electronic arts, then 3do, then in october 2003 a company for games on phones that had no touchscreen and no store to download fr
Apr 2014 Find Your FaceMate — a launch party at stk in the meatpacking district, july 2012, samantha ronson on the decks and celebrity faces run through the matcher for the cameras
4 Apr 2014 Television Without Pity — twop was the site that taught a generation of internet writers to recap a tv episode by mocking it scene-by-scene. nbcuniversal bought it in 2007 beca
4 Apr 2014 DailyCandy — dailycandy was a daily email newsletter dany levy started in march 2000 from her west village apartment with seven hundred subscribers. by 2008 it had
4 Apr 2014 Sevenload — sevenload was germany's attempt at a domestic youtube. founded in cologne in april 2006 by ibrahim evsan with two cofounders, it grew to twelve langua
4 Apr 2014 My Damn Channel — rob barnett came out of eleven years of programming at mtv and vh1 and started my damn channel with warren chao on 31 july 2007, when the open questio
8 Apr 2014 MSN Messenger — the messenger of every Turkish high school student and university student from 2002 to 2010. the nudge shook your screen and your heart. appear-offlin
8 Apr 2014 Windows XP — windows xp shipped in october 2001 and refused to leave for thirteen years. it sat under bliss, the napa hill that became the most-seen photograph on
14 Apr 2014 Forrst — forrst was the invite-only room where designers and developers showed unfinished work and asked to be told the truth about it. kyle bragger started it
15 Apr 2014 Kerpoof — four engineers in boulder put fifty thousand dollars of their own money into a drawing program for small children and agreed to take no salary for a y
16 Apr 2014 TelexFree — telexfree pretended to sell voip calling cards. about two percent of the revenue came from selling cards. the other ninety-eight percent came from rec
18 Apr 2014 Twitter Music — twitter music launched at coachella in april 2013 and shut down april 18, 2014, one year to the day. it was built on the we are hunted acquisition, pl
Apr 2014 Nike+ FuelBand — nike+ fuelband was the wrist tracker that converted accelerometer data into a made-up unit called nikefuel and showed it back on a black-bracelet LED
22 Apr 2014 QVOD (Kuaibo) — qvod, known in chinese as kuaibo, was a video player out of shenzhen that turned every machine running it into a node in one enormous streaming swarm.
22 Apr 2014 Wiser.org — wiser.org launched on earth day 2007 as wiserearth, an open directory of the hundred thousand odd groups paul hawken had cataloged while writing bless
22 Apr 2014 WiserEarth — paul hawken spent years collecting business cards from environmental and social justice groups, could not find a list of them anywhere, and decided th
23 Apr 2014 OpenNI — apple paid around $360 million for primesense on 24 november 2013, and primesense was the member holding the openni consortium together. openni.org we
24 Apr 2014 Impulse — impulse was stardock's attempt to sell pc games without treating the buyer as a suspect. it launched in 2008 against a steam that had already won the
28 Apr 2014 Last.fm (the social era) — the music scrobbling site. you installed an audioscrobbler plugin in winamp or foobar2000. it tracked every song you played. the site charted your tas
2014 5min.com — 5min was a short instructional video network founded in tel aviv in 2007 by ran harnevo. by 2010 it was syndicating short how-to clips across a wide p
30 Apr 2014 Bloom.fm — bloom.fm was a british music app that tried a middle path between buying songs and paying a flat streaming fee. it let you rent music. a pound a month
30 Apr 2014 BerliOS — the fraunhofer institute opened berlios in january 2000 so that german and european open source work would have somewhere to live that was not a calif
30 Apr 2014 Qik — qik was a live video app from 2007 that pushed a stream off a phone and onto a web page while the phone was still pointed at the thing, back when the
30 Apr 2014 まほうつかいの箱 — 315 yen a month got you into a cafe that does not exist. type-moon built its official phone site in 2009 as アーネンエルベ, the coffee shop that turns up ins
30 Apr 2014 Slidecast — seven years after slideshare invented it, the slidecast was switched off in two stages during 2014: you could no longer make one after 28 february, an
May 2014 Skyfire — skyfire was the 2008-2014 mobile browser that solved iphone-cant-play-flash by rendering flash on a proprietary server farm and streaming a video back
May 2014 Cooliris — the 3D wall plugin that made image search look like a movie scene for two years. installed fifty million times across the major browsers, won a crunch
1 May 2014 EditGrid — a web spreadsheet out of a small hong kong company that, by most accounts, was better than google's: live data feeds and a real api, collaborative in
May 2014 Square Wallet — square wallet let you pay at a cafe by giving your name. no phone out, no tap, your face and your name were the checkout. for the people who had it, i
1 May 2014 Itsmy — a munich company built a social network for the phone browser in 2006, when that meant a two inch screen and a data plan billed by the kilobyte. it re
May 2014 Cuevana — three students in argentina put cuevana online on 1 october 2009 and within two years it was how a large part of latin america watched american televi
May 2014 Starmatic — a paris company put starmatic on the app store on 5 september 2012, an iphone-only photo app built around a plastic kodak camera from 1959, down to th
May 2014 Yellowikis — a fifteen year old noticed that wikipedia kept deleting the small businesses she looked up, and told her father the entries needed somewhere else to l
May 2014 Appetas — a twenty five thousand dollar hackathon prize in 2012 paid two ex-microsoft engineers to go and build restaurant websites, and two years later google
May 2014 gogoyoko — reykjavik, december 2007: two musicians and one of the people who built eve online started a music store on the premise that the artist should keep al
May 2014 Web Slices — in march 2008 microsoft shipped a way to subscribe to one corner of a web page instead of to the whole site. you marked a region of your html with a c
6 May 2014 HitBliss — eight to ten minutes of commercials bought you a new release. the catch was that the software watched back, with a meter you had to click and a trust
6 May 2014 Userscripts.org — jesse andrews built the place greasemonkey scripts lived in, and in 2010 he posted that it had gone into maintenance mode and asked for somebody to ta
9 May 2014 Facebook Poke — poke was facebook's first snapchat clone. ios only, shipped on december 21 2012 about a week after snapchat rejected facebook's reported $3 billion bu
9 May 2014 Facebook Camera — facebook camera was a standalone iphone app from facebook that let you shoot, filter, batch upload, and browse a feed of friend photos. it launched on
11 May 2014 StackMob — five months. that is how long stackmob lasted inside paypal, which bought it in december 2013 and announced the shutdown on 12 february 2014. the pitc
11 May 2014 Mekusharim — three party promoters in tel aviv put about forty thousand shekels into a website and opened it in july 2004 with six registered users. by 2007 mekush
12 May 2014 Lord of Ultima — lord of ultima was a free browser strategy game that ea phenomic built in germany and released in april 2010, carrying a name from richard garriott's
15 May 2014 RubyForge — ruby central needed somewhere to put open source ruby projects, so in july 2003 a small consultancy stood up a fork of sourceforge and called it rubyf
16 May 2014 Silicon Knights — silicon knights spent twenty two years in st. catharines, ontario, and made one game that people still talk about. eternal darkness in 2002 pretended
16 May 2014 Loom — twenty-nine days is the gap between the acquisition notice and the shutdown. dropbox bought loom on 17 april 2014, one week after launching carousel,
May 2014 Dropjack — a canadian search-engine company called jayde online launched a digg clone in 2007 and named the votes jacks. for a few years dropjack ran the way the
19 May 2014 ex.fm — ex.fm started life as extension.fm, a browser add-on out of new york in 2010. it scanned whatever webpage you were on for mp3 files, mostly music blog
20 May 2014 Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection — nintendo wi-fi connection was nintendo's first real consumer online service. it launched with mario kart ds in november 2005 and ran on gamespy infras
20 May 2014 Tokobagus — two dutch founders started a classifieds site in denpasar in 2005 and turned it into the address indonesians typed when they wanted to sell a car. by
20 May 2014 Wii Speak — wii speak was a microphone bar you hung off the television so an entire room could talk to an entire other room, which is not how anybody else was bui
21 May 2014 Jaleco — jaleco started in 1974 as japan leisure company, building the machines that filled arcades rather than the games that ran on them. the name people rem
22 May 2014 Son of the Bronx — blogger started pulling posts off the site in may 2014 and warned that more removals were coming. douglas pucci had been compiling nielsen ratings for
23 May 2014 Docking@Home — a volunteer computing project on the boinc platform, hosted by the university of delaware under michela taufer and paid for by the nsf and the nih. it
28 May 2014 TrueCrypt — the free disk encryption tool that ran on windows and macos and linux for ten years and was the default answer for full-disk and container encryption
28 May 2014 Musicload — t-online opened it in october 2003 and for a few years it was arguing with itunes over which of them led the german download market. it sold drm-locke
29 May 2014 Mythic Entertainment — mythic entertainment was the fairfax virginia studio that mark jacobs and rob denton built around mid-1990s text muds before pivoting to graphical mmo
May 2014 Symantec pcAnywhere — the remote desktop standard before remote desktop was a windows feature. pcanywhere 1.0 shipped in 1986 from dynamic microprocessor associates for dos
30 May 2014 Editorially — editorially was the collaborative writing tool built by the designers who had built typekit and a book apart. markdown editing with threaded revision
31 May 2014 GameSpy — gamespy started in 1999 from an earlier quake server browser called qspy. it became the matchmaking middleware behind more than 800 game titles. you w
31 May 2014 MOG — mog was on the right track at the wrong moment. it was a $10/month all-you-can-stream service in 2010, when most of the world was still on itunes purc
May 2014 Technorati — technorati was the search engine for blogs back when blogs were a discrete category of the web, separate from news sites and separate from social medi
Jun 2014 BlackBerry PlayBook — rim's ipad answer, launched april 19 2011 in north america at $499 for the 16gb model. it shipped without a native email client because the email had
Jun 2014 Bambuser — bambuser was a swedish mobile live-streaming app out of stockholm. it launched in 2007 with the pitch that anyone with a smartphone could broadcast li
Jun 2014 Graphicly — graphicly wanted to be the store you bought comics from on a screen, and for two years it was the name people said next to comixology. it lost that fi
1 Jun 2014 Willcom — japan built a second mobile phone system alongside the real one, cheap and short ranged, and willcom was the operator that outlived the idea. it sold
Jun 2014 Funpic — in coburg in april 2014 both directors of funpic.de ag left within twelve days, and nobody replaced them. the free host they walked away from had star
1 Jun 2014 Wowloud — on 1 june 2014 the first music streaming service malaysia built for itself stopped, and the page that replaced it did the unglamorous thing: it told p
2 Jun 2014 Wer-Kennt-Wen — wer-kennt-wen was the koblenz-built german-language facebook clone that hit 9.4 million registered users in late 2011, got bought by rtl interactive f
11 Jun 2014 Myspace Music — myspace music was the answer to the question of what happens when the worlds largest music-discovery social network gets all four major labels into on
2014 Rawporter — five to twenty five dollars was what a publication paid for a picture on rawporter. kevin davis and rob gaige built it in charlotte, north carolina, a
18 Jun 2014 Freshmeat / Freecode — freshmeat was the release ticker for open-source software from about 1998 to the mid-2000s. patrick lenz launched it in 1997 as the first web-based ag
18 Jun 2014 Code Spaces — on 17 june 2014 a stranger holding the keys to code spaces' amazon console asked for money to stop a ddos attack. the coventry company tried to lock t
19 Jun 2014 Digital Post Australia — a private letterbox for your bills, built in australia by computershare and fuji xerox before the national postal service had one of its own. australi
20 Jun 2014 The Hobbit: Armies of the Third Age — kabam launched the hobbit: armies of the third age on 21 march 2013 as a free-to-play browser strategy game tied to peter jackson's second hobbit film
23 Jun 2014 Google Baraza — on 25 october 2010 google launched a question and answer site for africa and named it with the swahili word for council. it ran on points: you earned
25 Jun 2014 Springpad — springpad was the pre-pinterest pinboard nobody remembers. you clipped something off the web and the app guessed whether it was a recipe or a product,
25 Jun 2014 Google TV — six american television networks decided, separately and within weeks of each other, that a browser running on a television was not allowed to load th
28 Jun 2014 Aereo — aereo's idea was almost a legal gag. each user rents one physical antenna in a warehouse, the antenna catches free over-the-air tv, the warehouse inte
29 Jun 2014 Quickoffice — quickoffice was the mobile office viewer and editor that ran on every smartphone platform that existed before the iphone simplified the category. clie
30 Jun 2014 IWiW — iwiw started in budapest in april 2002 as "wiw," was renamed "iwiw" in october 2005, was acquired by magyar telekom in april 2006 for about a billion
Jun 2014 Lockerz — lockerz was a points economy with a social network bolted onto it. you logged in daily, watched videos, answered polls, invited friends, and earned PT
30 Jun 2014 me2day — me2day launched in february 2007 in seoul as an independent korean microblogging service. nhn corporation, which would later rename itself naver, acqu
30 Jun 2014 Sify Mail — by august 2003 the company behind this inbox had over a thousand cybercafes open across india, which is the part of it worth remembering. satyam infow
30 Jun 2014 SmartPlanet — 30 june 2014 was the last day smartplanet published, and by then the name had been three different products sharing one domain. ziff davis put it up i
30 Jun 2014 Little Eye Labs — facebook's first indian acquisition was four engineers in bangalore who had built the tool android developers actually needed: a profiler that measure
1 Jul 2014 Age of Empires Online — microsoft tried to take age of empires from a boxed rts to a free-to-play live-service mmo. the game shipped august 2011 with seven civilizations, an
1 Jul 2014 Sony VAIO — sony's pc brand. launched july 1996 with the pcv-90 desktop series in japan, became famous worldwide for the pcg-505 superslim laptop in 1997 and the
1 Jul 2014 Readmill — henrik berggren and david kjelkerud shipped readmill from berlin in december 2011 as an ios app for reading ebooks and sharing highlights with the peo
Jul 2014 Ladies' Home Journal — ladies' home journal was the curtis publishing service monthly that became the first american magazine to reach one million subscribers, in 1903. mere
Jul 2014 Swell Radio — thirteen months on the app store, then apple paid about $30 million for it and switched it off. concept.io built it to do for talk what pandora did fo
Jul 2014 Airtight Games — four people put in six thousand dollars each in the autumn of 2004, and that twenty-four thousand dollars was the entire starting capital of a console
1 Jul 2014 Samsung Music Hub — australia was the only country that kept it. everywhere else samsung music hub stopped on 1 july 2014, two years and two months after it launched alon
Jul 2014 PALGN — three hundred thousand people a month read an australian games site that existed because ign put its message boards behind a paywall in 2003 and the p
2 Jul 2014 Xobni — xobni was inbox spelled backwards. an outlook sidebar that turned your mail archive into a people index before anybody else was doing that. yahoo paid
2 Jul 2014 eCOST.com — a closeout electronics retailer that pc mall started in torrance in 1999, cut loose in 2005 and took back six years later for a fraction of what it ha
4 Jul 2014 Games for Windows Live — microsoft's idea of bringing xbox live to pc games. it forced you to make a microsoft account just to save your single player game. it never worked pr
10 Jul 2014 Neversoft — founded on 10 july 1994 and made defunct on 10 july 2014, twenty years to the day. in between, a skateboarding license nobody else especially wanted b
14 Jul 2014 Cenci Journalism Project — a twenty-two year old albanian-language student in beijing watched xinhua summarize what the foreign press had written about the wenzhou train crash,
15 Jul 2014 Encyclopedia of Taiwan — five hundred and twenty million new taiwan dollars was the budget, and the original plan was a twenty-volume printed encyclopedia. what it turned into
17 Jul 2014 Nokia X — the nokia x was nokia's brief detour into android. the x and the xl handsets (plus the slightly upgraded x+ on the same chassis) were unveiled at mwc
18 Jul 2014 Pixorial — the domain still resolves, and it lands you on the product's own wikipedia article, which is a quieter epitaph than most companies manage to arrange f
21 Jul 2014 Download Accelerator Plus — on a 56k modem a four megabyte mp3 took ten minutes and one dropped connection meant starting the whole thing again. dap opened several connections to
22 Jul 2014 Café World — café world launched on facebook 30 september 2009 and pulled 8 million players inside the first week. zynga ran it as its third-biggest title after fa
26 Jul 2014 House News — hong kong's answer to the huffington post, running curation and blogs with several hundred contributing writers and almost no reporting staff of its o
28 Jul 2014 Ya.ru — yandex built a blogging platform in 2008 and gave it the shortest domain the company owned. you wrote, you uploaded photos through yandex.fotki, you j
29 Jul 2014 Topica — topica was a place to run an email list without a server of your own. it started in 1998, swallowed the old liszt list directory in 1999, and at its p
29 Jul 2014 Sifteo Cubes — the mit media lab prototype was called siftables and it played at ted in february 2009. david merrill and jeevan kalanithi turned it into a shipping p
30 Jul 2014 FEARnet — fearnet was a us-only thing at the cable-licensing layer. comcast plus lionsgate plus sony pictures launched it on halloween 2006 as a horror-focused
30 Jul 2014 Mixx — the digg clone that pitched personalized content blending instead of pure popularity ranking. chris mcgill launched it in private beta on september 20
31 Jul 2014 Vanguard: Saga of Heroes — vanguard launched in january 2007 from a team that had just built everquest. it shipped in a state that could not survive the wow era it was supposed
31 Jul 2014 Yahoo Voices — yahoo voices was the rebranded associated content platform, a pay-per-pageview content farm yahoo bought in may 2010 for about one hundred million dol
31 Jul 2014 Ubuntu One — ubuntu one was canonical's own dropbox. shipped alongside ubuntu 9.04 in may 2009 with 5 gb free storage and a linux-native sync client. added a music
31 Jul 2014 Wizardry Online — a japanese-developed western revival of the classic sir-tech wizardry dungeon crawl, ported by gamepot and published by SOE in january 2013. the pitch
31 Jul 2014 Yahoo! Shine — marissa mayer thought shine was not attractive, according to a source who talked to adweek in april 2014, and what she wanted instead was an online ve
31 Jul 2014 Repost.us — 8,500 publishers handed their articles to repost.us and more than 100,000 domains carried them, which reads like a working marketplace until you notic
31 Jul 2014 Shortmail — five hundred characters and no attachments. that was the entire product. 410 labs built shortmail in baltimore in 2011 on the theory that most email i
31 Jul 2014 LearnStreet — vinod khosla put a million dollars into learnstreet in 2012 and it was gone inside two years with no reason ever given. the only record of the shutdow
Aug 2014 Sonico — argentina built a social network for the whole spanish-speaking world. sonico peaked above fifty million registrations across mexico, brazil, colombia
1 Aug 2014 Sony Reader — sony shipped an e-reader before amazon did. the librie launched in japan in 2004 and the prs-500 reached the united states in september 2006, more tha
Aug 2014 Crime Library — marilyn bardsley put crime library online in january 1998 as long-form writing about murders and the people who committed them, commissioned from work
Aug 2014 Blogter — nobody shut this one down. the timeouts started in 2010, the support stopped answering, and by 2012 the hungarian blog platform was offline more often
Aug 2014 Skype protocol — for most of a decade the cheapest long distance call in the world was carried by other people's computers. skype's protocol was undocumented and almos
4 Aug 2014 Patch-Tag — git won, and over the following decade everything built for the alternatives went down behind it. patch-tag was thomas hartman's one-man answer to the
5 Aug 2014 Justin.tv — the lifecasting site that started as one guy with a webcam strapped to his head, broadcasting his life 24/7. it pivoted to a generic streaming platfor
6 Aug 2014 ZipRealty — ziprealty was a discount real-estate broker that ran an in-house salaried-agent model instead of the commission-only industry norm. it launched in 199
6 Aug 2014 Norton Zone — symantec supplied the obituary itself: security is one of the company's strengths, file sharing is not, and norton zone was a late entry to the market
10 Aug 2014 Fotopedia — fotopedia was the june 2009 paris photo platform built by five former apple engineers led by jean-marie hullot. members curated travel and wildlife ph
12 Aug 2014 Spickmich.de — spickmich was the german teacher-rating site that three cologne students opened in spring 2007. registered pupils filled in their school and their tea
12 Aug 2014 Facebook Gifts — on may 18, 2012, the day facebook went public, it bought a sixteen-person gifting app called karma. four months later that purchase reappeared as face
13 Aug 2014 TuneWiki — tunewiki put the words on the screen in time with the music, on a phone, in 2008. it ran on almost every mobile platform of that moment and had more t
15 Aug 2014 Heello — heello was twitpic founder noah everett's attempt to hedge twitpic against twitter by building a small twitter clone of his own. it launched on august
Aug 2014 Myxer — myxer was the free-tier answer to the paid-subscription ringtone empires jamba and thumbplay ran. founded in 2005 in deerfield beach florida by myk wi
15 Aug 2014 Digital Region — four south yorkshire councils, a regional development agency and brussels put more than ninety million pounds into a broadband network almost nobody b
17 Aug 2014 Zip.ca — zip.ca started shipping dvds to canadian mailboxes in february 2004 and spent a decade being the netflix canada did not have. it passed thirty thousan
Aug 2014 Campfire (37signals) — campfire was 37signals's hosted chat room for teams, launched in 2006 before slack existed. simple enough to understand in a minute, persistent enough
26 Aug 2014 showModalDialog — chrome 37 shipped on 26 august 2014 without the one javascript call that could stop a page dead and wait for an answer. microsoft had put it in intern
29 Aug 2014 YUI Library — yahoo's open-source javascript framework. it shipped css resets and ajax widgets back when "frontend" still meant copy-pasting prototype.js into your
29 Aug 2014 Ultima Forever: Quest for the Avatar — ultima forever was a free-to-play action rpg for ios that took the frame of ultima iv, the game about the eight virtues, and hung a chest-and-key econ
Aug 2014 WorldsAway — worldsaway was a 2d avatar city you paid by the hour to walk around in. fujitsu launched it on compuserve in 1995 and the dreamscape world became one
31 Aug 2014 Svpply — svpply was a place to save the things you wanted to own, a quiet feed of products picked by people whose taste you trusted. ebay bought it in 2012, to
31 Aug 2014 GoInstant — on 31 august 2014 a one-line notice replaced a company that had sold for a reported seventy million dollars two years earlier. four developers in hali
1 Sep 2014 Plinky — jason shellen's thing labs built plinky before it built brizzly. one question every weekday, answered with a paragraph or a photo, then pushed out to
1 Sep 2014 Icebergs — two barcelona designers, césar isern and albert pereta, built a private corner of the cloud where you could keep the images and notes a project runs o
Sep 2014 TheSwizzle — scott kurnit built about.com and sold it for $724 million. he spent the early 2010s on a free tool that folded your promotional email into one daily d
Sep 2014 Pikimal — thirteen people in pittsburgh built a search engine that refused to rank anything by popularity. you picked a category and then moved sliders to say h
1 Sep 2014 Thaimail — on 15 april 1997 a thai publishing company gave the country its first free email address, in thai, at a point when getting online in bangkok still mea
2 Sep 2014 Squidoo — squidoo was seth godin's revenue-share article platform, launched october 2005, where users built single-topic pages called "lenses" and earned a cut
4 Sep 2014 Yebhi — yebhi came out of an online shoe shop called bigshoebazaar and grew into one of india's early fashion e-tailers, selling clothes and accessories out o
4 Sep 2014 Vizify — portland, 2011: three software people decided the problem with your professional presence online was that all of it was text. vizify read your account
5 Sep 2014 MyFamily.com — ancestry announced in the summer of 2014 that it was retiring myfamily, the private family-website service it had once renamed the entire company afte
8 Sep 2014 Wallbase — on 8 september 2014, at 13:54 gmt, something wrote an empty file over wallbase's index page, and that was the entire announcement. the site had indexe
10 Sep 2014 Macworld (print) — the apple-press print magazine of record. born february 1984, deliberately timed to ship the same month as the original macintosh, with $200,000 in se
11 Sep 2014 Loserkids.com — kids kept telling blink-182 on tour that there was no skate shop anywhere near where they lived, so in june 1999 mark hoppus and tom delonge opened on
Sep 2014 Shvoong — an israeli site opened in 2005 offering to pay strangers a share of the advertising if they would write short summaries of books and articles, in what
15 Sep 2014 AnimeNation — the anime mail-order house out of clearwater florida. gene field opened it in 1995, ran it for twenty years, and shut the store in september 2014. the
15 Sep 2014 Slando — michael pennington and simon crookall sold gumtree to ebay in 2005 and built slando next, a free classifieds site aimed at russia and ukraine with eba
18 Sep 2014 Petpet Park — jumpstart games bought neopets in september 2014 and the spin-off did not survive the paperwork. petpet park went offline nine days after the sale clo
22 Sep 2014 ジャンプLIVE (Jump LIVE) — two issues shipped, in august and december 2013, and a third one was never delivered. shueisha built ジャンプLIVE as a fully digital special edition of we
26 Sep 2014 Monkey Quest — monkey quest was nickelodeon's attempt at owning a kids world of its own instead of licensing one from a cartoon. it ran in a browser from march 2011,
28 Sep 2014 Sky Sports News Radio — leeds, the sky sports digital media centre, a room of radio people sat next to the television newsroom they took their copy from. four years of result
30 Sep 2014 Lotus 1-2-3 — lotus 1-2-3 was the original killer app for the ibm pc. mitch kapor and jonathan sachs shipped it in january 1983, and for a decade nothing else matte
30 Sep 2014 Lotus SmartSuite — lotus smartsuite was the bundle that stapled lotus 1-2-3 to wordpro and a handful of smaller productivity apps in one box. ibm bought lotus in 1995 fo
30 Sep 2014 Orkut — google's social network from 2004 to 2014. small in the US. enormous in brazil. then enormous in india. the most popular social network in two countri
30 Sep 2014 MSN Autos — carpoint launched as one of the first wave of microsoft web properties in october 1995, before the .com era was a category. it was a car-shopping port
Sep 2014 Airtime — Sean Parker and Shawn Fanning relaunched their friendship at the Airtime press event in june 2012, with Snoop Dogg and Martha Stewart on the same stag
30 Sep 2014 Lotus Approach — lotus approach was the end-user relational database in lotus smartsuite, originally a 1991 product from approach software inc in redwood city under ja
30 Sep 2014 ShiftyLook — a webcomic studio inside bandai namco, opened to find out whether anything was left in the arcade cabinets nobody had touched since the eighties. it h
30 Sep 2014 Lotus Freelance Graphics — fifty kilobytes was a normal size for a freelance graphics presentation, which meant twenty of them fit on a single floppy disk and you could carry yo
30 Sep 2014 PetitionOnline — a 3d modeling software house in oregon ran the web's first well-known petition service for twelve years as a sideline. more than fifty thousand petiti
30 Sep 2014 National Atlas of the United States — in late 2013 mapping managers at the us geological survey decided to end the program, and the site they ended was getting three times the use of the s
30 Sep 2014 Stagecast Creator — larry tesler left apple in 1997 holding the rights to a kids' programming system the company had built and renamed twice, and he spent the next sixtee
1 Oct 2014 Quizilla — the site where teenagers made and took user-generated personality quizzes, which became the trojan horse for fanfiction. launched 4 august 2002 by mat
Oct 2014 Microsoft SideWinder — microsoft sidewinder was the brand microsoft tried twice on pc gaming peripherals. first as joysticks from october 1995 to around 2003, then again as
Oct 2014 CyberMentors — gordon brown opened it in march 2009 and a million and a half british children eventually walked through it, most of them looking for someone to talk
1 Oct 2014 Westone Bit Entertainment — ryuichi nishizawa and michishito ishizuka left sega in 1986 and called their company escape, then changed it because escape made them sound like peopl
Oct 2014 Sulia — ten million dollars went into a service that tried to find the people worth reading about any given subject, first by filtering twitter's firehose for
6 Oct 2014 Wireplay — for about four years british telecom was in the video game business. wireplay opened to the public in june 1996, timed to euro 96, and let you dial a
7 Oct 2014 Redbox Instant — redbox instant was verizon and outerwall's shared attempt to build a netflix competitor. it launched on 14 march 2013 at 8 dollars a month for unlimit
13 Oct 2014 Amazon WebPay — amazon webpay was a free peer to peer money transfer product that amazon launched in 2007 as a wing of amazon payments, the account layer for the amaz
13 Oct 2014 Wreckamovie — a group of finnish filmmakers made a free star trek parody called star wreck: in the pirkinning in 2005 by recruiting help over the internet, and it t
14 Oct 2014 Venkman — in april 2001 robert ginda started writing a javascript debugger for mozilla, in javascript, and it shipped inside the browser that october. venkman w
16 Oct 2014 Lotus Symphony (IBM) — ibm took openoffice and put it inside an eclipse rich client shell. they called it a free corporate office suite and shipped it to enterprise customer
19 Oct 2014 OhLife — an email arrived in the evening and asked how'd your day go. you hit reply, typed whatever you had, and that was the entire product. shawn gupta and h
20 Oct 2014 Forte Agent — forte agent was the canonical windows usenet newsreader from 1994 until usenet itself stopped being a place. charles dazler knuff's company forté inc
23 Oct 2014 Miso TV — the television check-in was a real idea for about two years. miso launched it at sxsw in march 2010, raised money from google ventures and hearst and
24 Oct 2014 Haivl — vietnam's ministry of information and communications fined haivl 205 million dong on 24 october 2014 and withdrew its license for good, citing content
25 Oct 2014 Twitpic — twitpic was the dominant photo host for twitter from 2008 to 2014, founded by noah everett as a stand-alone uploader before twitter had native images.
29 Oct 2014 Xbox Entertainment Studios — microsoft hired the former president of cbs network television and gave her a studio in santa monica to make television for a games console. it lasted
30 Oct 2014 Listn — eight days passed between beatport announcing it had bought listn and listn going dark. the app let you walk into a friend's music library and look ar
31 Oct 2014 iVillage — ivillage was a us women's portal that ran from 1995 to 2014. its march 1999 ipo was one of the loudest dot-com first-day pops, with shares priced at t
Oct 2014 Maktoob — the first arabic-language webmail anyone ran at scale. founded out of amman by samih toukan and hussam khoury in 1998. by 2009 it was the biggest arab
31 Oct 2014 Helix Universal Server — the server side of streaming used to be a product you bought once, and realnetworks sold the one that spoke every format. helix universal server arriv
1 Nov 2014 Qwiki — qwiki won techcrunch disrupt in september 2010 with an ipad app that turned wikipedia entries into narrated video montages. yahoo bought it for a repo
2014 Sohu Weibo — sohu weibo was the fourth entry in china's short-lived four-portal microblog race. sina, tencent, netease and sohu each launched a weibo in 2009-2010.
Nov 2014 BranchOut — branchout was a professional network built on top of facebook, back when building on top of facebook looked like a business plan. it grew by mailing y
Nov 2014 KidZui — the idea was that a child's internet could be a list. kidzui shipped a firefox build in 2008 that could reach nothing except urls a paid reviewer had
Nov 2014 Netropolitan Club — a composer and conductor in minnesota launched a social network on 15 september 2014 that cost nine thousand dollars to join and three thousand a year
Nov 2014 Podcast Alley — for most of a decade the closing seconds of an american podcast were a man asking you to go and vote for him. the place he wanted you to go was podcas
Nov 2014 Adobe Edge Code — adobe edge code was a creative cloud code editor for html, css, and javascript that sat on top of the open source brackets project adobe had started i
5 Nov 2014 NetEase Weibo — netease weibo was the fourth of china's four microblog services, behind sina, tencent and sohu. it launched in the spring of 2010 as t.163.com, hosted
6 Nov 2014 Rev3Games — adam sessler walked out of discovery digital networks in april 2014 and took the channel's reason for existing with him. rev3games had launched two ye
7 Nov 2014 Samaritans Radar — a british suicide-prevention charity built a free twitter app that watched the timelines of everyone you followed and emailed you when a post matched
9 Nov 2014 Voice of Russia — thirty eight languages went off the air in stages across 2014. the station had been radio moscow since 1929, the loudest signal on shortwave for most
11 Nov 2014 Official Nintendo Magazine — official nintendo magazine was the licensed british nintendo monthly, running from 1 october 1992 under a sequence of names and from 2006 under this o
11 Nov 2014 Boerse.bz — on 4 november 2014 about 400 police officers searched 121 homes in 14 german states, all over one forum. boerse.bz had grown out of gulli's closed dow
12 Nov 2014 Dalvik — every android application on earth ran inside this thing between 2008 and 2014, and almost nobody who used one could have named it. dan bornstein buil
14 Nov 2014 UltimatePoker.com — nevada legalized real-money online poker inside its own borders and ultimate gaming, owned through station casinos by the fertitta family, got the fir
14 Nov 2014 Netflix Public API — thirty-five million american subscribers and twelve and a half million elsewhere: by 2014 netflix did not need anybody else's app to introduce it to a
20 Nov 2014 Novell — founded 1980 in utah. novell's netware became the default way to share files and printers across small office networks. peak market share around sixty
30 Nov 2014 Zeus Web Server — two cambridge undergraduates wrote a web server in 1995 that beat apache on almost every benchmark anyone ran, and then tried to sell licenses for it.
Dec 2014 Microsoft Streets & Trips — streets & trips was the desktop trip-planning cd-rom you bought at staples and installed once. you used it for the next four road trips before forgett
2014 Privet.ru — privet.ru was a russian social network that launched as comby.ru in spring 2006 and rebranded under the new name on 10 june 2007. it crossed two milli
Dec 2014 NTVMSNBC — ntvmsnbc went online on 15 may 2000, a joint product of the turkish news channel ntv and msnbc, which its own about page described as the most visited
1 Dec 2014 Microsoft Office Clip Art — clip art was the drawer of pictures that came with the software. a cartoon man in a suit, a globe with a ring around it, indexed by keyword and droppe
1 Dec 2014 FilesTube — it hosted nothing. it indexed everybody else's lockers and handed you an outbound link, and for a few years that made it the front door to rapidshare
Dec 2014 Plasa.com — telkom indonesia opened this portal in 1998 and ran it for sixteen years as the web half of the national phone company. free plasa.com mail addresses
Dec 2014 Fenopy — a domain renewal that nobody paid, on purpose. fenopy launched around 2006 as the first torrent index that looked like a web 2.0 startup, and by march
Dec 2014 Madden GIFERATOR — for seventeen weeks in late 2014 a machine watched every nfl game and made memes about it. google's art, copy & code team built the madden giferator w
2 Dec 2014 Tipo — on 11 november 2003 two israeli founders opened a messenger community for adults and put an 18+ section on it. children arrived instead, and by the en
3 Dec 2014 That Guy with the Glasses — three men laid off from a circuit city in 2007 built a website around a man who shouted at his childhood movies, and for six years it was the biggest
3 Dec 2014 ArchitectureWeek — five hundred and eighty three issues came out of eugene, oregon, the first on 17 may 2000 and the last on 3 december 2014. nobody wrote a farewell. th
5 Dec 2014 Nokia Sync — microsoft finished buying nokia's phone business in april 2014 and switched off its contact sync service eight months later. ovi sync had launched in
10 Dec 2014 ZipList — fourteen million dollars bought condé nast a recipe box in april 2012, and thirty-two months later condé nast switched it off. ziplist began as a shar
12 Dec 2014 AllGame — allgame started in february 1998 as the all game guide, the video game arm of the all media guide project that also produced allmusic and allmovie. it
15 Dec 2014 Helium.com — helium was the andover writing community where members wrote articles and rated each other's submissions head to head. mark ranalli launched it around
15 Dec 2014 Viddy — viddy was a mobile app for shooting short video clips and sharing them with a filter on top, pitched in 2012 as the instagram for video. it raised thi
15 Dec 2014 Relay — twenty-six days separated the announcement from the shutdown. kik bought the toronto startup on 19 november 2014 and took both founders into waterloo.
16 Dec 2014 OpenSocial — opensocial was a public api specification google announced november 1 2007, a set of common interfaces that let a single third-party application run u
16 Dec 2014 PeerIndex — peerindex sold agencies a number that claimed to tell them who mattered on twitter. brandwatch bought it in december 2014 for cash and equity, folded
16 Dec 2014 [email protected] — in 1998 a portal called list.ru wanted a software section, and an independent developer named stanislav zharkov had already started building one. that
18 Dec 2014 BrowserChoice.eu — the browser ballot was the european commission's remedy for microsoft bundling internet explorer with windows. from march 2010 any windows machine in
19 Dec 2014 GetGlue / tvtag — getglue was the foursquare of television. you opened the app while watching a show and checked in to that episode. the app handed you a sticker plus a
22 Dec 2014 Animal Crossing Plaza — animal crossing plaza was a free wii u app that existed to be a lobby. you pulled screenshots off your new leaf cartridge through an sd card and poste
24 Dec 2014 Slide Bureau — a six-person design studio in seattle, run by two people who had left microsoft, decided the problem with slide decks was not the software but the des
29 Dec 2014 Linux Outlaws — 370 episodes over seven years, recorded on mondays in two countries and released on wednesdays in ogg as well as mp3. dan lynch and fabian scherschel
2014 Boxee — boxee was the media-center software (and later set-top box) that tried to be the netflix-of-everything before netflix was the netflix-of-everything. i
2014 Facebook Home — zuckerberg got on stage in april 2013 and pitched a phone that put facebook in front of every other app on the home screen. people hated it within hou
2014 iRiver — the geeky korean mp3 player brand. it was what you bought when the ipod was too expensive, or when you wanted something that played ogg vorbis without
31 Dec 2014 Microsoft MapPoint — mappoint was the consumer-grade gis on a desk. it shipped in nine versions between 2000 and 2013, mostly aimed at business users who needed to plot ex
2014 Neopets — the virtual pet site. you adopted a neopet (faerie kacheek, christmas shoyru, stealthy gelert), fed it, played with it, dressed it up. the site had hu
2014 PlayStation Portable — the psp was sony's bet that a handheld could be both a gameboy competitor and a portable media player. it sold 76 million units across ten years, lost
2014 Reader Rabbit — reader rabbit was the flagship reading-instruction software the learning company started shipping in 1984 for the apple ii. ann mccormick and her co-f
2014 RealPlayer — the first streaming media player most people used. realaudio and realvideo were the formats. the player was indispensable in 1998 and progressively mo
2014 Sodaplay (SodaConstructor) — the flash physics toy where you built walking creatures from springs and masses. drag a node, attach a spring, set the muscle frequency, watch the thi
Dec 2014 Wetpaint — wetpaint launched in october 2005 in seattle as a wiki anyone could spin up without learning markup syntax. it became the default home for fan wikis a
31 Dec 2014 Yahoo Directory — yahoo directory was the original yahoo. before it was a portal it was just two stanford students keeping a list of every interesting website they coul
31 Dec 2014 Microsoft AutoRoute — microsoft autoroute was the european version of streets and trips, a boxed route-planner that ran on windows and covered thirty-seven countries from t
2014 Java ME — java me, originally java 2 platform micro edition, was sun's mobile java subset for resource-constrained devices, built around the kvm runtime and the
2014 Oracle Beehive — oracle beehive was an enterprise collaboration server combining email, calendar, instant messaging, team workspaces, conferencing under one administra
2014 Qualcomm BREW — brew (binary runtime environment for wireless) was qualcomm's app platform for cdma feature phones. it shipped on ktfreetel in korea in november 2001
31 Dec 2014 Trapster — trapster started in november 2007 as one man's version of a gesture drivers had been making at each other for decades, which is the headlight flash th
2014 Mundo Canibal — mundo canibal was brazil's flash humor site, built by the piologo brothers with rogerio vilela around a character rodrigo had drawn in 1994. from 1998
31 Dec 2014 Dr. Dobb's Journal — it started in january 1976 as a xeroxed newsletter with a nine-word title, printed to circulate free implementations of tiny basic at a moment when a
31 Dec 2014 Looxcie — a button on the side saved the last thirty seconds of whatever you had just been looking at, and that was the entire pitch. looxcie built a bluetooth
31 Dec 2014 Wimba — founded in paris in 1998 to push voice into web pages for language teachers, merged into a new york company six years later, then sold to blackboard a
31 Dec 2014 VirginMega.fr — may 2004, a few weeks ahead of itunes in france, virgin megastore opened a download store with not one major label track in it. the majors came later
31 Dec 2014 Gfranq — on 2 march 2012 a married couple in russia shipped a browser photo editor with forty-eight film filters and a page to keep the results on. by december
31 Dec 2014 Taiwan Railway Net — eleven years of taiwanese railfan photography sat on trc.net.tw, and in november 2014 the site said facebook had taken its readers. it began in march
31 Dec 2014 nRelate — iac decided it would rather use nrelate than sell it. the widget had been sitting under the last paragraph of more than a hundred thousand blogs since
31 Dec 2014 Samsung Video Hub — samsung put a movie store inside the galaxy s iii in may 2012 and switched it off two and a half years later. selling stopped on 1 december 2014. to k
31 Dec 2014 Nokia Trailers — the goodbye note recommended xbox video. nokia trailers was a lumia exclusive that let you download a film trailer and watch it later with no signal a

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