Death Anniversaries, 2016

every grave in this cemetery, by year of death. this page covers 2016.

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2016 Unity Web Player — the plugin that ran 3d games inside your browser before that was a normal thing to expect. for about a decade, if a web page loaded a real unity game,
2016 Elfwood — the largest sci-fi and fantasy art gallery on the early web. hosted out of linköping university in sweden by thomas abrahamsson. ran twenty years, eat
Jan 2016 Milblogging.com — milblogging.com was the central directory for the wave of first-person deployment blogs that came out of the iraq and afghanistan wars. jean-paul bord
2016 Advogato — advogato was the free software world's reputation lab, built by raph levien in 1999. instead of every account counting the same, members certified eac
2016 Clinkle — clinkle raised close to thirty million dollars on secrecy and anticipation and almost no product. lucas duplan started it as a stanford student with a
2016 Humortadela — brazil got its own humor internet before most countries did. humortadela went up on 3 december 1995 and ran flash cartoons with recurring characters t
2016 Opera Mail — opera mail was the email client built into the opera browser, known as M2, with one odd idea for its time. it did not want you to sort mail into folde
2016 VHS-C — vhs-c was a small vhs cassette with the same tape inside, sold on a single promise: you would not have to buy anything else to watch what you shot. it
1 Jan 2016 Look At Me — look at me started in 2006 as a moscow street-style blog and grew into the flagship title of a publishing house. for ten years it was where russian re
2016 Bigfoot — bigfoot sold a promise rather than a mailbox. you took a bigfoot.com address and pointed it at wherever your mail actually lived, so when your isp cha
2016 Jiepang — foursquare was blocked in china, so somebody built the same thing locally and for about three years it worked. jiepang had five million registered acc
2016 Universal Typeface Experiment — the universal typeface experiment was an advertisement for a ballpoint pen. bic put a writing surface on a web page in june 2014 and asked anyone at a
2016 Manjam — two million registered accounts and twenty-eight languages, and it went without a notice or a buyer. manjam ran out of london from october 2004 and wa
2016 Asphalt Overdrive — gameloft had a racing series that worked, and in september 2014 it shipped a spin-off that did not race. asphalt overdrive was an endless runner built
2016 Veetle — a few stanford graduate students built veetle in 2008 so one person on a normal home connection could broadcast live video to thousands, by making eve
2016 McAfee SiteAdvisor — a room of MIT engineers built robots that filled in nine hundred thousand signup forms with throwaway addresses, counted the spam that came back, and
2016 Chaos.com — sydney, 1995: rob appel started selling cds over the internet as chaos music market, four years before anyone in australia had a reason to trust that.
2016 Vostu — zynga sued vostu in june 2011 for copying its games down to the bugs, and took a settlement in december that cost money and forced four titles to be r
2016 Robô Ed — a chrome cartoon robot sat on a brazilian government energy website from 2004 and talked to anyone who typed at him, in portuguese, about saving elect
2016 夠Yeah (Goyeah) — a hong kong reporter who became a national meme in 2000 for asking jiang zemin one question too many spent eighteen months building the city's first l
1 Jan 2016 La Frikipedia — the spanish collecting society sued a joke encyclopedia in early 2006 over one satirical article and asked for up to twelve thousand euros. la frikipe
Jan 2016 LesMads — jessica weiß and julia knolle started it in april 2007 as a plain fashion blog and had about 240 readers a day. hubert burda media watched for two mon
2016 BlikBook — civitas learning of austin, texas announced the purchase on 21 july 2015 and let the name run for about another year. blikbook had come out of a resea
2016 Tunepics — justin cooke came out of topshop and burberry marketing and built an app that put a thirty second itunes clip behind your photograph, then asked every
2016 Eyejot — seattle, 2007: two founders demoed a way to record a video message in a browser window and send it like email, with nothing to download first. that wa
4 Jan 2016 Yahoo Screen — yahoo screen was the brand yahoo used between 2011 and 2016 to try to compete with netflix and hulu on original streaming video. the headline buy was
6 Jan 2016 iWon.com — iwon was a portal with a slot machine glued to the front. every search, every page view, every login earned tickets toward a daily ten thousand dollar
8 Jan 2016 Hacker Monthly — sixty-seven issues, one editor, laid out in indesign in malaysia and mailed to wherever you lived. lim cheng soon read hacker news so that his subscri
11 Jan 2016 Madasafish — madasafish sold internet access out of stornoway on the isle of lewis, which is about as far from london as a british isp could physically put itself.
14 Jan 2016 TouchVision — chicago, 2013: a weigel-backed outfit put a news channel on spare broadcast subchannels with no anchors and no desk, cutting between field pieces the
14 Jan 2016 Stolen! — a letter from a member of congress ended it. stolen! let you spend play money to own any twitter account, whether the person behind it had signed up o
Jan 2016 Cryptsy — cryptsy was the altcoin exchange people used before coinbase listed anything but bitcoin. paul vernon (big vern) ran it out of florida from may 2013 t
Jan 2016 Oyster — a new york startup pitched ebook subscription the way netflix pitched dvd subscription. one million titles, ten dollars a month, unlimited reading. th
15 Jan 2016 Mobile by Sainsbury's — a supermarket and a network operator could not agree how to carry their joint venture forward, so 150,000 phone customers got three months of notice a
18 Jan 2016 Cute Overload — cute overload was a photoblog of small animals looking up at the camera, updated daily by meg frost from december 2005. it codified an internal "rules
21 Jan 2016 The Why Files — the national science foundation paid for it in 1996 to find out whether the web could be used to explain science to a general audience, and the answer
22 Jan 2016 Skitch — skitch was a mac annotation tool. you took a screenshot, drew a fat red arrow on it, the public skitch.com url was already on your clipboard. plasq pr
22 Jan 2016 Corbis — bill gates started corbis in 1989 to buy the rights to photographs, on a theory that people would one day hang screens in their houses and want someth
25 Jan 2016 Google Code — google code launched march 17, 2005 as a project-hosting service for open source code. it offered subversion, later mercurial and git, plus an issue t
26 Jan 2016 TTNET — ttnet was türk telekom's retail internet arm, spun into its own company on 26 april 2006 because the wholesale line business and the shop that sold su
26 Jan 2016 Avea — avea was turkey's third mobile operator, which in a market where two networks already had the country is a permanent position rather than a starting o
2016 Crazy Browser — 15 january 2002 is the date on the first release and 20 september 2011 is the date on the last. in between, crazy browser wrapped microsoft's trident
28 Jan 2016 iTunes Radio — apple's pandora response, baked into ios 7's music app on september 18 2013. ad-supported station radio with a buy-this-song button on every now-playi
28 Jan 2016 Jolla Tablet — jolla was built by people nokia released when it chose windows phone over meego, and the tablet was their attempt to prove that an independent europea
31 Jan 2016 Live365 — live365 was the platform that let any random person run their own internet radio station. it bundled the licensing so you did not have to negotiate wi
31 Jan 2016 Songza — songza launched in november 2007 from new york as a streaming service whose interface asked "what are you doing right now" and answered with a hand-cu
31 Jan 2016 BodyMedia — astro teller co-founded it, more than a decade before he was running google's moonshot lab. bodymedia spent fourteen years in pittsburgh building an a
Feb 2016 Shumway — flash outlived the project built to replace it. mozilla research announced shumway on 12 november 2012, written up by jet villegas: a flash virtual ma
2 Feb 2016 Artizone — dallas got it in 2011 and denver was still new when it ended. artizone was one website where roughly two hundred and twenty local butchers and bakers
2 Feb 2016 Nolblog — at 00:28 on 1 february 2016 three thousand hungarian blogs went dark, came back about eight hours later, and were switched off for good the next after
5 Feb 2016 Rusty Hearts — japan went first, in march 2014. then north america that september, then china the following january, and finally the korean original in february 2016
5 Feb 2016 Fly Labs — a former child actor who came back with a cornell math phd and taught himself ios on the side is not the standard founder story, but tim novikoff and
8 Feb 2016 GameTrailers — gametrailers was the place you went between 2003 and 2010 to actually watch a game trailer in higher than 240p. youtube later made that a feature of e
9 Feb 2016 Lulu — lulu let women review men behind their backs and called it dating intelligence. you looked up a guy by his facebook profile and saw what other women h
9 Feb 2016 Offbeatr — offbeatr opened on 9 august 2012, run by a los angeles outfit called extra lunch money, and the press called it kickstarter for porn because kickstart
10 Feb 2016 Frankly.me — frankly.me was an indian app built on a simple hook, you asked a celebrity a question and they answered you back in a short selfie video. it launched
17 Feb 2016 Yahoo! Travel — yahoo travel launched as a vertical in 1997. by january 2014 it was ranked the ninth-largest travel booking website in the world by hitwise. the same
17 Feb 2016 Wat.tv — wat.tv was the french broadcaster TF1's attempt to own online video, launched in 2006 under a name that stood for we are talented. the plan was a home
17 Feb 2016 Kakao Album (카카오앨범) — a thousand photos to an album and two hundred friends on the invite list: those were the ceilings kakao put on its photo-sharing app when it shipped i
19 Feb 2016 Powa Technologies — powa was a london fintech that claimed a $2.7 billion valuation and went into administration on 19 february 2016 with about $250,000 in the bank. its
20 Feb 2016 Fotolog — the photo blog. one photo a day. comments and a guestbook. peak in argentina, chile, and spain around 2007. i never used it in turkey because it was n
25 Feb 2016 Convrge — convrge was a social vr hangout for the oculus rift dk1 and dk2, built by shawn whiting and hayden lee out of a nashville apartment after they met at
25 Feb 2016 Mp3skull — mp3skull was an mp3 search-and-direct-download aggregator that launched in 2010 and reached alexa's top 500 by 2013. the major labels sued jointly in
26 Feb 2016 Mailbox — the iphone email app that taught a generation of people what "swipe to archive" meant. orchestra inc launched it on 7 february 2013 with a reservation
28 Feb 2016 PlayStation TV — playstation tv was sony's microconsole take on the vita, a hdmi puck that played vita and psp games on a television through the dualshock 3. it launch
29 Feb 2016 Friends Reunited — the UK's first big social network. you registered, you picked your old school from a directory of british schools, you saw the list of classmates who
Feb 2016 iG (Internet Group) — ig was the brazilian free-dial-up phenomenon of the early 2000s. internet group launched on 9 january 2000 from sao paulo, backed by gp investimentos
29 Feb 2016 Tales of Pirates — in the last week of january 2016 igg posted a farewell and pointed everyone at its mobile games. a month later, on the leap day, the servers went off.
29 Feb 2016 dotCloud — the shutdown landed on 29 february 2016, a date that only exists every four years. dotcloud was the platform solomon hykes started in paris and relaun
29 Feb 2016 Yahoo! Bookmarks (Japan) — 17 april 2013 is the date yahoo! japan announced this one was closing, on 17 july, along with yahoo! clip. enough users asked for it back that on 29 m
29 Feb 2016 3D PRINT LAB. — a phone case you drew yourself, sintered out of nylon powder and posted to your door inside two weeks for 3,980 yen. kddi owned no printer and wrote n
Mar 2016 Elance — bernard sheth and srini anumolu founded elance in 1999 out of jersey city, moved it to silicon valley by the end of the year. the platform spent the 2
Mar 2016 Betamax — the story people reach for when they want to say the better product does not always win. betamax had the sharper picture and lost anyway, on recording
Mar 2016 Candystand — candystand was a free browser games portal built in 1997 for the life savers candy brand by skyworks technologies, a studio run by two ex-activision g
Mar 2016 MicroMV — sony introduced micromv in october 2001 and it is still the smallest videotape anybody shipped, seventy percent smaller than minidv and about the foot
Mar 2016 MyMajorCompany — mymajorcompany opened in december 2007 asking ordinary people to put ten euros each behind an unsigned artist, with seventy thousand euros as the numb
1 Mar 2016 Darkspore — darkspore was maxis emeryville's first game after will wright left, a squad based action rpg that borrowed the spore creature editor and demanded a li
1 Mar 2016 Rakuten Belanja Online — rakuten belanja online was rakuten's attempt at indonesia, launched in 2011 as a joint venture with the media group behind MNC. the model was the japa
Mar 2016 Zuula — every other metasearch engine of the era mixed its sources into a single ranked list and asked you to trust the mixing. zuula would not do it. boris s
Mar 2016 BBC Lab UK — a national broadcaster with an audience of millions is, looked at from one angle, a recruitment channel no university could ever afford. the bbc worke
Mar 2016 Ktunnel — on 18 august 2008 milliyet counted a proxy site at number 37 among the most visited sites in turkey, twenty places below the youtube it existed to rea
Mar 2016 WDYL (What Do You Love) — a search box with a heart on the button, and behind it a dozen google products answering the same query at the same time. wdyl.com went live on 27 jun
6 Mar 2016 Open Hunt — on 15 december 2015 somebody published a post about how product hunt's front page actually got chosen. three days later there was a rails app with twi
7 Mar 2016 Shingun Destroy — bandai namco has kept a shared science fiction continuity running since the arcade era, and in 2014 it quietly filed a free phone game about tank crew
14 Mar 2016 Hypertable — doug judd built hypertable at zvents as a c++ implementation of google's bigtable paper, and baidu signed on as a project sponsor in january 2009 and
15 Mar 2016 SpoonRocket — spoonrocket was the on-demand meal startup that treated lunch as a logistics problem. drivers carried insulated bags full of pre-cooked $6 meals aroun
15 Mar 2016 The Malaysian Insider — jahabar sadiq had been a reporter in the region since 1988 and edited the malaysian insider until its last minute. it launched on 25 february 2008 as
16 Mar 2016 Talko — talko was ray ozzie's second startup after lotus and groove networks. it was a voice-first messaging app for work teams, built on the premise that con
16 Mar 2016 Shelfari — shelfari launched on 11 october 2006 in seattle, founded by josh hug and kevin beukelman as a virtual-bookshelf social network where readers tagged th
16 Mar 2016 享樂團購網 (FunShare) — hong kong got its group-buying wave in 2010, the same year everybody else did, and funshare was the local entry that never got bought by anyone bigger
16 Mar 2016 Wildcard — ten million dollars from general catalyst and softbank bought a card-based iphone browser and a published card schema that publishers were invited to
21 Mar 2016 Nokia MixRadio — nokia's free streaming radio built on the ashes of nokia music. announced 26 october 2011 for windows phone at the lumia launch, rebranded from nokia
22 Mar 2016 Evolution Studios — evolution studios spent seventeen years making racing games that looked better than they had any business looking, first the official world rally cham
22 Mar 2016 NutshellMail — a social network aggregator that ran in the opposite direction to everything around it. instead of opening facebook or twitter you told nutshellmail w
24 Mar 2016 Microsoft Tay — microsoft's twitter chatbot. lasted 16 hours. 4chan taught it nazi tweets within minutes of launch. microsoft pulled the plug before the next afternoo
24 Mar 2016 Skype Qik — qik was the second life of a name microsoft already owned. the original qik was a 2006 live mobile broadcasting service skype bought in 2011, then sat
25 Mar 2016 HuffPost Live — huffpost live was aol and huffington post's streaming video newsroom, launched 13 august 2012 with eight live hours a day out of new york and four mor
25 Mar 2016 Radikal — turkish daily founded on october 13 1996 by doğan, on the web from march 1998. it stopped printing on june 21 2014 and carried on as a website only, t
28 Mar 2016 DarkScape — darkscape was jagex's attempt to spin off a runescape variant where anyone could attack anyone almost anywhere. it opened on 16 september 2015 and clo
31 Mar 2016 Dropbox Carousel — carousel was dropbox's attempt to be the place your photos lived without the social-feed noise. it was nicely built, paired with an app called mailbox
Mar 2016 Tuenti — tuenti was spain's facebook between 2009 and 2012, with fifteen million registered users at peak and an estimated fifteen percent of all spanish web t
Mar 2016 Yahoo Livetext — livetext was a video chat app where nobody was allowed to talk. you opened the camera and your friend opened the camera. you typed at each other while
31 Mar 2016 Yahoo! Search BOSS — boss was an api on yahoo's web index. you signed up, got a key, called the endpoint, got json or xml ranked-and-relevant search results back. yahoo im
31 Mar 2016 Clearwire (CLEAR) — craig mccaw's second wireless company sold home and mobile broadband over wimax under the clear brand, starting in portland in january 2009. sprint an
31 Mar 2016 Yandex.Slovari — yandex spent a decade licensing the russian reference shelf and putting it behind one search box, the great soviet encyclopedia and dahl included, wit
31 Mar 2016 Rise of Mana — the eleventh mana game was free-to-play, japanese only, and lasted two years. square enix put rise of mana on ios in march 2014 with a story about an
31 Mar 2016 PlayStation Broadband Navigator — japan got a hard disk for the playstation 2 and a dashboard to run it, and nobody else did. broadband navigator turned the console into a media machin
31 Mar 2016 DMM恋活 (DMM Koikatsu) — dmm ran a dating service for about two years and switched it off at 15:00 on a thursday in march 2016. by its own count it had passed 370,000 members
Apr 2016 More — more was meredith's magazine for us women over forty, a demographic thesis turned into a print monthly. launched with the september 1998 issue, peaked
1 Apr 2016 AbsolutePunk — jason tate started absolutepunk.net in june 2000, at fifteen, as a fan page for blink-182 and mxpx. it turned into the place an entire pop-punk and em
Apr 2016 Tencent Paipai — paipai was tencent's answer to taobao, a c2c marketplace launched in 2005 that had every advantage on paper. it rode qq's hundreds of millions of user
Apr 2016 Kippt — kippt was a place to keep links, built in 2011 by two finnish designers who wanted bookmarking to be shared and searchable instead of a lonely folder
1 Apr 2016 Soranet — soranet began in 1999 as a personal link page and became the largest korean-language pornography site on the internet, with more than a million regist
Apr 2016 Letitbit — registered in the seychelles and cyprus, hosted in the netherlands. letitbit opened in 2007 promising unlimited file size with a winking smiley, paid
1 Apr 2016 The Tower of Druaga: the Phantom of GILGAMESH — namco's 1984 arcade game became an mmorpg in 2008, developed by q entertainment and supervised by masanobu endo, who had designed the original and who
4 Apr 2016 Atmel — george perlegos left intel in 1984 and built a company around putting flash memory on a microcontroller, which sounds like nothing until you remember
5 Apr 2016 Scarlet Blade — scarlet blade was the western version of a korean mmo called queen's blade, localized by aeria games in 2013. it ran on the aggressive marketing angle
5 Apr 2016 OSVDB (Open Sourced Vulnerability Database) — osvdb was an attempt to keep a vulnerability database outside anybody's commercial control. it was started at black hat in august 2002 and opened to t
7 Apr 2016 Alien Blue — alien blue was reddit's favorite ios client back when reddit did not have an official one. jase morrissey built it in objective-c out of melbourne. re
8 Apr 2016 GameMaker Sandbox — yoyo games spent nine years letting anyone with a copy of gamemaker upload what they had built, and ended up holding more than a hundred thousand game
10 Apr 2016 Nostalrius — nostalrius was a free server that ran world of warcraft as it stood in 2006, patch 1.12, with none of the expansions on top of it. an unpaid french te
11 Apr 2016 Dabs.com — two men in bolton started a computer-book imprint in 1987 and named it after their own initials. by 2008 dabs.com was turning over about 200 million p
12 Apr 2016 Al Jazeera America — al jazeera america was a us-only cable news channel built by al jazeera media network to convert qatar's roughly five hundred million dollar purchase
14 Apr 2016 QuickTime for Windows — quicktime for windows was the price you paid for installing itunes. apple shipped it in november 1994, mostly so its own.mov format would play on the
14 Apr 2016 Phorm — ttnet carried phorm from 2012 under a brand called gezinti, which is how a company already driven out of british broadband ended up reporting twenty m
15 Apr 2016 Shuddle — one day of notice. shuddle emailed parents and drivers on 14 april 2016 to say the service would stop at the end of business the following day, which
15 Apr 2016 Kitchensurfing — chris muscarella and borahm cho started it in 2012 out of a brooklyn townhouse as a marketplace where you booked a chef days ahead for a dinner party.
18 Apr 2016 GamePolitics.com — dennis mccauley started it in march 2005 to cover a beat nobody else was working full time: the legislation and the lawsuits aimed at video games in t
21 Apr 2016 Experience Project — a place built for people who needed to say something they could not say under their own name. it started as a support board for one illness and grew i
21 Apr 2016 Empire of Sports — a french studio called f4 built a persistent world where one avatar trained across six sports and met strangers from other countries in real time. emp
22 Apr 2016 Livemocha — livemocha was the 2007 bellevue peer language exchange community. you filled in your native language and the language you wanted to learn, the site ro
Apr 2016 Aniboom — an israeli television executive worked out that there were thousands of animators with nowhere to be seen and studios with no way to find them, then b
23 Apr 2016 PepperTap — peppertap started taking grocery orders in gurgaon on 26 november 2014 and raised around fifty million dollars from sequoia and saif partners on the w
28 Apr 2016 Deka☆Musu — four months and three days after it opened, deka musu had a closing date. ortdash was a joint venture between alt plus and gree, and this was an origi
29 Apr 2016 Lionhead Studios — lionhead was peter molyneux's second uk studio after he left bullfrog and ea in 1997, set up in guildford with mark webley and tim rance. black and wh
30 Apr 2016 CastleVille — castleville was zynga's medieval-fantasy entry in the social-game wave, built at the zynga dallas studio, with art that aimed at a deeper online game
30 Apr 2016 Xfire — xfire was a free game-aware instant messenger that launched in april 2004 from a team led by quake legend dennis 'thresh' fong. it watched what game y
Apr 2016 Yahoo! Games — the yahoo browser games portal. pool, chess, spades, hearts, dominoes, backgammon. each game opened in a small popup window. you got matched with rand
Apr 2016 Pheed — pheed was a paid social network founded in los angeles in november 2012 by o.d. kobo, tony deniro, and phil haus. it sold itself as a creator-monetiza
Apr 2016 MyVideo — myvideo was a german-language video portal launched in 2006 by magic internet and later absorbed into the prosiebensat.1 broadcast group. it ran the y
30 Apr 2016 Nook Video — barnes and noble tried to make the nook hd into a general-purpose media tablet in late 2012 by adding a video store next to the ebook store. the video
30 Apr 2016 My Tracks — my tracks was google's gps recorder for android, shipped in february 2009 when a phone that knew where it was still counted as news. you pressed recor
30 Apr 2016 Softimage — softimage was the high-end 3d animation package of the 1990s, the software behind the jurassic park dinosaurs, and then it spent twenty years being so
30 Apr 2016 Presso — hatena spent a decade turning bookmarks into a ranking of what japan was reading, then in march 2014 put that ranking in a separate iphone app so it c
1 May 2016 Picasa — the desktop photo organizer that managed every digital camera dump for a decade. you plugged in the camera and picasa sorted everything into date fold
1 May 2016 Kuro5hin — kuro5hin (pronounced corrosion) was a collaborative-edited news and discussion site founded in december 1999 by rusty foster as a slashdot alternative
1 May 2016 Copy.com — copy.com was barracuda networks putting a consumer face on the storage it already ran for its backup appliances. it opened in february 2013 with fifte
May 2016 Kliksa — sabancı wanted an online retailer and built one from scratch instead of buying one. kliksa opened in 2012 and spent four years discounting against hep
May 2016 Mystery Seeker — type anything, press search, and you got somebody else's search instead. that was the entire mechanic, launched on 2 october 2009 under the name myste
2 May 2016 Freebase — freebase was a crowdsourced structured knowledge base started by metaweb technologies in 2007. it described 44 million topics and 2.4 billion facts as
3 May 2016 Tampa Tribune — the tampa tribune was one of two competing daily newspapers in tampa, florida, from 1895 until its rival bought and shut it in may 2016. it was owned
4 May 2016 Katch — a two-day hack built out of the sxsw 2015 livestream boom that turned into a real product with 1.3 million monthly users. saved meerkat and periscope
4 May 2016 Neon Alley — viz media launched neon alley on 2 october 2012 as a twenty-four hour anime channel you watched through a playstation 3, english dubbed and uncut, for
5 May 2016 SF Signal — sf signal spent thirteen years as a science fiction blog with a podcast operation bolted to it, and it got good enough to win the hugo for best fanzin
10 May 2016 Disney Infinity — three years of avalanche software trying to be skylanders for disney's ip vault. you bought a plastic figurine, dropped it on an infinity base usb don
10 May 2016 Disney Interactive Studios — disney spent twenty-eight years trying to be a real games publisher. they were buena vista games, then disney interactive, then disney interactive stu
10 May 2016 Tlen.pl — tlen.pl launched in october 2001 from grupa o2 in poland as a desktop instant messenger meant to compete with the already-dominant gadu-gadu. the prot
11 May 2016 Sqwiggle — a webcam pointed at your desk all day, refreshing your face into a grid of colleagues every few seconds, was somebody's sincere answer to remote work
11 May 2016 PSharing — at 17:49 on 11 may 2016 the server stopped answering, and by 19:34 both of its domains were pointing at the operator's webhosting business instead. no
13 May 2016 WebObjects — webobjects was the apple piece of the late-nineties java web stack. next first shipped it in march 1996 for fifty thousand dollars a license, apple in
13 May 2016 TicToc (틱톡) — a kaist graduate called kim chang-ha wrote a mobile messenger alone in 2011, and by the company's count it passed ten million downloads in five months
15 May 2016 Revolv — revolv shipped a $300 hub with seven radios that promised to be the brain of your house. nest bought the company in october 2014 and shelved the produ
15 May 2016 SPDY — may 2016 is when chrome stopped speaking it, and by then there was nothing left to kill. spdy spent six years as google's experiment in making http fa
16 May 2016 Tvidi — 18 september 2008 is the date the russian internet got a social network for six-year-olds, and it worked: 2.1 million people a month by 2013, most of
18 May 2016 Coin — coin was the kickstarter-style smart card that promised to consolidate every magstripe in your wallet into one bluetooth-connected piece of plastic. k
18 May 2016 Time Warner Cable — comcast tried to buy it first, announcing in february 2014 and spending fourteen months failing to convince washington that one company should carry m
20 May 2016 Bitcasa — bitcasa promised unlimited cloud storage for a flat $99 a year. the math never worked. in 2014 the company killed the unlimited plan, gave subscribers
20 May 2016 MyHabit — gilt groupe sold for a fraction of its billion-dollar valuation in january 2016, and four months later amazon closed the site it had built to beat gil
22 May 2016 TinyOwl — tinyowl was an indian restaurant ordering app started in 2014 by graduates of iit bombay, funded to around twenty-seven million dollars by sequoia and
24 May 2016 Shin Megami Tensei IMAGINE — shin megami tensei imagine was the mmo entry in the megami tensei franchise. cave and later gungho developed it under a license from atlus. you played
25 May 2016 Blogdigger — greg gershman launched blogdigger alone in march 2003, indexing about two thousand weblogs with a search engine he had written himself. it placed thir
26 May 2016 DailyFinance — february 2009: aol launched a business news site into the worst month the markets had seen in seventy years, betting that a wire desk crossed with a b
30 May 2016 Dust 514 — dust 514 was a free to play playstation 3 shooter wired into eve online's live universe, built by ccp shanghai and released on 14 may 2013. players on
May 2016 Mobli — israeli photo and video app founded 2010 by the hogeg brothers. leonardo dicaprio was the announced marquee investor, followed by serena williams, lan
31 May 2016 Nosgoth — nosgoth started life as the multiplayer half of legacy of kain: dead sun, a single player game climax studios worked on for three years before square
May 2016 Darkfall — darkfall was a greek-built mmo for people who wanted ultima online before it went soft: one world, no levels, manual aiming, and full loot on every de
31 May 2016 ekiSh — the tagline promised every station in japan, collected and then collected again. opencube built it in shibuya for feature phones in december 2010, whe
1 Jun 2016 BitTorrent Sync — btsync did the thing you would want it to do. two folders on two machines stayed in step over the internet, encrypted end to end, using the exact torr
1 Jun 2016 Arto — morten borg put a page of jokes online in february 1998, and by 2007 it was the largest website in denmark, with eighty thousand danes logged in simul
1 Jun 2016 Poetica — london, june 2014: twitter's first lead engineer launches a text editor whose one good idea is that a suggested edit should look like somebody wrote o
1 Jun 2016 AppSurfer — four school friends in pune spent four years trying to make android apps run without being installed first. they got funded on an indian television sh
4 Jun 2016 MetaMind — salesforce announced the acquisition on 4 april 2016 and gave users one week before deleting what they had uploaded. the free tier stopped on 4 may an
6 Jun 2016 Mafia Wars — mafia wars was the zynga title that lived on neighbor invites. text-mode gangster freemium gameplay where you ran jobs, recruited mafia members from y
6 Jun 2016 Olympe — ninety thousand accounts, seventy thousand sites, five languages, and no advertising anywhere on any of it. olympe was a french nonprofit association
7 Jun 2016 MSN China — msn china was half microsoft and half a shanghai state investment fund, and it was the only national msn permitted to keep its own newsroom and its ow
7 Jun 2016 Firefox Tilt — firefox 47 shipped on 7 june 2016 and the developer release notes carried one line about it: 3d view has been removed. tilt was the webgl thing that t
8 Jun 2016 Facebook Notify — facebook released a separate ios app in november 2015 that did nothing but ping you when cnn or vogue or weather channel posted something. 70 publishe
9 Jun 2016 iMesh — imesh was the rare 2000s file-sharing brand that made it out of the riaa litigation alive by settling for 4.1 million dollars and rebuilding itself as
12 Jun 2016 BearShare — bearshare was the gnutella client that lived on after napster died. december 2000 launch, riaa settlement in may 2006 for thirty million dollars, sold
13 Jun 2016 UberStrike — eighteen people in beijing built the first real-time 3D multiplayer shooter that ran inside facebook, and for a while it was the biggest one there. pa
17 Jun 2016 StarWipe — starwipe was the onion aiming a whole site at celebrity gossip, with sean o'neal running it and tmz as the target. the problem was structural rather t
20 Jun 2016 蜂買 (BeeCrazy) — a tvb supporting actor and two friends pooled seven figures into a hong kong coupon site in july 2010, and in december 2013 they sold it into an austr
21 Jun 2016 Ensogo — ensogo was southeast asia's biggest daily-deals site, born in thailand around 2009 as a local copy of groupon and, for a few years, the place people b
21 Jun 2016 malariacontrol.net — basel had a malaria modeling group and not enough computers, so in 2006 the swiss tropical institute put its simulations on boinc and asked the public
25 Jun 2016 Other Music — fifteen east fourth street, december 1995. a few clerks out of kim's underground opened a shop directly across from the tower records that should have
25 Jun 2016 Flipkart Ping — punit soni came from google to be flipkart's chief product officer and put a messenger inside the shopping app, so you could send a friend a pair of s
28 Jun 2016 CurrentC — a payment app designed by retailers who did not want to pay card fees or hand apple their customer data. it made you scan a qr code at the register in
28 Jun 2016 ninemsn — in 1997 microsoft and kerry packer's pbl put fifty million dollars and their australian internet assets into one joint venture and named it ninemsn. f
29 Jun 2016 Move Loot — $21.8 million went into a company whose real job was carrying other people's sofas down other people's stairs. four friends started move loot in 2013
30 Jun 2016 Apple iAd — iAd was apple's attempt to own the mobile ad layer the way it already owned the app store. steve jobs announced it on stage in april 2010 with a milli
30 Jun 2016 NOTTV — nottv went on the air on 1 april 2012, a subscription television channel broadcast over the old analog vhf band straight into japanese phones for abou
30 Jun 2016 Google Wallet Card — the bancorp bank issued it and mastercard cleared it, which made this the most ordinary object google ever shipped. it existed because money kept arri
30 Jun 2016 Bluebottle — "i now only get emails from mum," the founder said at the launch in august 2002. robert pickup's melbourne webmail answered every unknown sender with
30 Jun 2016 Kamen Rider Megaton Smash — 314 days, ending one minute short of two in the afternoon, with no reason given. eighting invented an entirely original kamen rider story for a pc bro
1 Jul 2016 PlanetSide — planetside tried to be an mmo and an fps at once. the math worked when servers were full of subscribers. when the subscribers thinned, three-faction w
1 Jul 2016 The Toast — the toast was a small independent feminist literary site that ran for three and a half years and built a defining voice in a corner of the english-lan
Jul 2016 DontStayIn — tim aylott and the brophy brothers launched a uk clubbing site in april 2003 under the name yougotspotted.com and rebranded as dontstayin in 2004. thr
Jul 2016 Kaymu — kaymu was rocket internet's marketplace for the parts of the world the big western sites mostly ignored. it launched in 2013 in nigeria and pakistan o
1 Jul 2016 Google Swiffy — swiffy took an adobe flash swf file and gave you back something a phone could render, which mattered because the iphone never ran flash and by 2011 th
1 Jul 2016 Amazon Webstore — amazon spent nine years renting out the software behind amazon.com, first at fifty nine dollars a month plus seven percent of everything sold, later a
1 Jul 2016 Mon.service-public.fr — the french state put every citizen's paperwork behind a single login in early 2009 and switched that login off on 1 july 2016. the account came with a
Jul 2016 GivesMeHope — emerson spartz built mugglenet at twelve and had a company with thirty websites in it by his early twenties. givesmehope was the one that asked reader
5 Jul 2016 THOMAS — the library of congress switched thomas on on 5 january 1995, a day after the 104th congress convened, because congress had decided the public should
7 Jul 2016 Microsoft Pinpoint — seven thousand application listings from thirty thousand vendors, and the product was a sales channel wearing the clothes of a marketplace. pinpoint e
10 Jul 2016 Examiner.com — the philip anschutz local news content factory that paid freelancers per click across two hundred thirty eight american cities. peaked at twenty milli
14 Jul 2016 Rhapsody — rhapsody was the first all-you-can-stream subscription music service with a major-label catalog. listen.com launched it on december 3 2001 from san fr
14 Jul 2016 Highlight — highlight was an ios and android app that ran in the background, watched your gps, and pinged you when a facebook friend or a friend-of-a-friend was w
14 Jul 2016 Spreecast — jeff fluhr sold stubhub to ebay then built a video product where four people could share a screen, an audience could watch, and viewers could raise a
14 Jul 2016 FlightCar — three eighteen-year-olds worked out that an airport parking lot is a fleet nobody is driving, and for three years they were right. you left your car,
15 Jul 2016 Storehouse — storehouse made the most beautiful photo stories on the app store and almost nobody read them. it had an apple design award and a former apple designe
19 Jul 2016 Bitstrips — bitstrips was the 2013 facebook viral moment where everyone built a cartoon version of themselves and posted it as a comic strip. it lasted about ten
20 Jul 2016 KickassTorrents — kickasstorrents was the torrent index that took the top spot from the pirate bay in late 2014, on a cleaner interface and a stricter moderation policy
20 Jul 2016 WooYun — wooyun ran from may 2010 as the place chinese security researchers posted the holes they found, in the open, where the company that owned the hole rea
20 Jul 2016 Exaro — a london investigative news site funded by one man, the city fund manager jerome booth, launched in october 2011 under the line "holding power to acco
23 Jul 2016 Spicy Horse — american mcgee moved to shanghai in 2007 and spent nine years proving a western studio could be run in china for a western audience. alice: madness re
26 Jul 2016 Take Eat Easy — one hundred and fourteen venture funds said no. the one that said yes, a french state-owned logistics group, signed a term sheet in march 2016 and the
27 Jul 2016 Sonic Runners — sonic runners was sonic team's free-to-play endless runner for phones, soft launched in japan and canada in february 2015 and released worldwide that
28 Jul 2016 Gmane — 163,643,204 messages from 15,119 mailing lists, and then the counter stopped. lars magne ingebrigtsen ran gmane out of oslo for fourteen years, mirror
29 Jul 2016 Facebook Paper — facebook's first creative labs app, a magazine-style news reader laid over the feed. you tilted the phone to load photos and subscribed to sections on
29 Jul 2016 ぽこぽこ — usamaru furuya supervised it, and the slogan in the corner of the logo said it was the kind of web serialization space that grows when you praise it,
29 Jul 2016 Princess Connect! — on 7 january 2016 the official account posted that the service would stop at three in the afternoon on 30 june. it stopped on 29 july instead, because
Jul 2016 VHS — dvd rentals passed vhs in june 2003, and the format went on being manufactured for thirteen more years after that. jvc launched it in tokyo in septemb
31 Jul 2016 LoQUo — ebay bought spain's craigslist in may 2005 and closed it on 31 july 2016, eleven years later. ubaldo huerta had started loquo in barcelona in 2002 bec
31 Jul 2016 Symform — two former microsoft engineers, praerit garg and bassam tabbara, looked at the price of a data center in 2007 and decided not to build one. symform's
31 Jul 2016 Kagi — kee nethery built the thing that let a one person software company in finland get paid by a stranger in australia, and he ran it for twenty two years.
Jul 2016 Readlists — arc90 built it as a side project off the readability parser: paste a stack of urls, get back an epub with each article as a chapter. no account requir
1 Aug 2016 Drupal Gardens — drupal gardens was acquia's attempt to make drupal usable by people who would never read a hook_menu doc. it hit a hundred thousand sites at peak. dri
Aug 2016 Yahoo Toolbar — a browser toolbar that mostly arrived on machines the same way spam arrives in inboxes: bundled inside something else, checkbox pre-checked, click nex
Aug 2016 Play.com — three men in their late twenties started a mail order shop on jersey in 1998 and turned a customs rule into a national habit. anything under fifteen p
Aug 2016 Fling — fling let you take a photo and send it to fifty random people anywhere on earth, and the fifty could write back. that got it four million users and, i
Aug 2016 OpenCandy — opencandy was the polite end of the bundling business. it did not hijack your browser or hide from add/remove programs, it just put one extra offer in
1 Aug 2016 Blue Coat Systems — it started in redmond in march 1996 as cacheflow, selling appliances that made pages load faster for internet providers. the dot-com crash took ninety
Aug 2016 Bildirgeç — on 30 january 2002 the front page counted 2,109 posts from 342 members, each one a link somebody had found and wanted to show in turkish. bildirgeç wa
Aug 2016 UKNova — vhs tapes of eastenders, mailed across the atlantic after bbc america dropped the show in 2003, were the first version of uknova. the tracker that rep
Aug 2016 Scion — 173,034 cars in 2006 was as good as it ever got. toyota built scion because its own buyers were getting old and it wanted a badge that twenty-somethin
Aug 2016 Kifi — google wanted the engineers and had no use for the product, which is the whole story. the kifi team announced on 12 july 2016 that it was joining the
Aug 2016 Justcoin — oslo, may 2013: andreas brekken and klaus bugge lund open a bitcoin exchange trading against the norwegian krone. in late october 2014 their bank clos
2 Aug 2016 Windows Journal — windows journal was the note-taking app that shipped with windows xp tablet pc edition in november 2002. it drew on the screen. it saved handwriting i
4 Aug 2016 Togethera — sixty-five thousand people is a respectable number of users and a terrible number of customers. togethera opened in london in 2013 as a private place
5 Aug 2016 Torrentz.eu — torrentz.eu was not a tracker. it was a search-over-trackers, the layer above thepiratebay and isohunt and demonoid that let you compare seeders acros
Aug 2016 Ku6 — ku6 was the beijing user-generated video site founded by kevin li in 2006, the year after youtube. former sohu editor-in-chief li left to build it, to
Aug 2016 Eyegroove — eyegroove was a phone app for making thirty-second lip-sync videos with music and little visual effects, built in san francisco by an interactive-art
12 Aug 2016 Microsoft Project Spark — microsoft wanted xbox one to be a creator platform, not just a console, and project spark was the most literal version of that pitch. you got a starte
12 Aug 2016 Project Spark — less than three years after microsoft put it on a stage at e3, project spark was pulled from the stores. it was a game about making games, free by the
13 Aug 2016 Blab.im — blab.im was a four-pane video chat app shipped from monkey inferno, the workshop that had bought back bebo. it caught the periscope-era live-video mom
13 Aug 2016 Pokémon Uranium — nine years of work by two people writing under handles, released on 6 august 2016 and pulled on the 13th. in between it was downloaded a million and a
15 Aug 2016 Cobook — riga built one of the better address books apple's platforms ever had, and denver bought it. cobook launched in 2011, replaced the stock contacts app
16 Aug 2016 Tsū — sebastian sobczak launched tsu in october 2014 with a 90-percent-revenue-share-to-users pitch that read more like an mlm than a social product. users
16 Aug 2016 Kingsoft Kuaipan — kingsoft kuaipan was one of china's big personal cloud drives, launched in 2010 by the software house better known abroad for its wps office suite. it
17 Aug 2016 Legends of Norrath — legends of norrath was a digital collectible card game sony online entertainment built into everquest and everquest ii, playable from inside either ga
17 Aug 2016 Szánalmas.hu — an anonymous administrator posting as bateman opened a link and picture blog in the autumn of 2002, and by 2005 an econet and medián audit called it t
18 Aug 2016 EveryTrail — on 17 august 2016 everytrail.com was still serving pages. by the following morning it answered every request with a redirect to alltrails.com, and the
19 Aug 2016 AskMe — askme was an indian local-search portal that scaled into a multi-category e-commerce roll-up through 2014 and 2015, buying askmebazaar for goods, mebe
22 Aug 2016 Gawker — gawker was a manhattan gossip blog that became a media company, then decided that publishing a hulk hogan sex tape was within its remit. the verdict c
22 Aug 2016 Picturelife — picturelife wanted to be the calm, safe home for every photo you ever took, back when that still sounded like a business. it got bought by streamnatio
26 Aug 2016 Zwinky — zwinky let teenagers build a cartoon big-head avatar and then, in 2007, walk it around a virtual world called zwinktopia. the real business was the to
26 Aug 2016 Prostopleer — prostopleer, later just pleer.com, was where russia listened for free. a music site that let you find and play almost any track, much of it pulled str
26 Aug 2016 Sunshine Ranch — a beijing studio called rekoo had been running its farm game on facebook for five months when mixi opened its platform to outside developers in august
30 Aug 2016 Washio — washio wanted to be uber for laundry, and for a few venture-funded years it was. you tapped an app and a driver in branded gear came for your dirty cl
Aug 2016 Chromebook Pixel — google built a 1,299 dollar laptop around chrome os and then said out loud that it was a proof of concept. the 2013 screen ran 2,560 by 1,700 at 239 p
Aug 2016 Yahoo GeoPlanet — yahoo geoplanet was the geographic-identifier api built around the woeid, a 32-bit number that named every country, region, town, and named place on e
31 Aug 2016 AppFog — appfog was the paas that started as phpfog, became a heroku competitor, then got swallowed by a telecom that did not know what to do with it. three ye
31 Aug 2016 Club Sunday — two titles. that is what shogakukan opened its first webcomic site with on christmas eve 2008, both of them continuations of series that had already e
Sep 2016 WAYN — wayn stood for "where are you now", a travel and lifestyle social network built in london around 2002. the idea was to pin every place you had been an
Sep 2016 BlogShares — blogshares was a fake stock market for weblogs, written in manchester in early 2003 by one person as a side project. a blog's share price came from wh
Sep 2016 TV Guide Plus — a full week of television listings, on screen, free, arriving through the blank lines at the top of a broadcast picture that were never meant to carry
Sep 2016 Dipity — newsrooms built election timelines on dipity and teachers built history lessons on it, and then one september it stopped answering and nobody wrote an
1 Sep 2016 Genee — ben cheung and charles lee started genee in 2014 to kill the email thread where four people spend two days failing to agree on a time. the public prod
Sep 2016 Mr. Reader — one line on a german developer's homepage ended it: "September 2016: I stopped iOS development and removed all apps from the App Store." mr. reader wa
1 Sep 2016 Kingdom Hearts χ[chi] — on 7 april 2016 square enix said the story of kingdom hearts χ[chi] would come to an end by early september, which is a softer sentence than the one t
2 Sep 2016 Project Ara — project ara was google's modular smartphone. the pitch was an aluminum frame called an endo with slots for swappable parts: a different camera, a bigg
2 Sep 2016 Stockfighter — about forty thousand people signed up to trade on an exchange that did not exist, against an api that behaved like a real one, because three people be
12 Sep 2016 Firefox OS — mozilla's mobile operating system. the whole UI and apps were built in HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. the pitch was: every web developer is now a mobile-a
12 Sep 2016 NUfoto — laurens verhagen, then editor in chief of nu.nl, told the dutch trade press in august 2007 that the reader photographs arriving at the news desk were
13 Sep 2016 Apple Game Center — game center was apple's xbox live for the iphone. it launched with iOS 4.1, picked up sixty seven million accounts in its first year, then slowly empt
13 Sep 2016 Sunrise Calendar — sunrise calendar was the new york via paris startup that briefly turned the calendar app into something people actually liked opening. pierre valade a
15 Sep 2016 Vesper — vesper was the notes app from q branch, the small studio john gruber set up in late 2012 with brent simmons and dave wiskus. it shipped on iphone in j
Sep 2016 Desura — desura opened in december 2010 as an indie-first steam alternative from the moddb team. linden lab bought it in july 2013 and offloaded it to bad juju
15 Sep 2016 TorrentHound — the founder's explanation was less traffic and less revenue against bills that kept piling up, which is a rarer obituary for a torrent site than a rai
15 Sep 2016 Mode Media — in 2015 the seventh most visited property on the american internet belonged to a company almost nobody could name. mode media, formerly glam media, ha
16 Sep 2016 Eye-Fi — the wifi sd card that let a digital camera upload to a desktop server without a usb cable. founded in 2005 in mountain view by yuval koren, ziv gillat
16 Sep 2016 Digital Homicide Studios — two brothers in yuma, arizona put around sixty games on steam in two years, most of them assembled out of bought unity asset packs. when people said s
19 Sep 2016 Fairchild Semiconductor — the planar process came out of this company in 1959 and made the integrated circuit manufacturable, which is most of the reason there is a silicon val
20 Sep 2016 Firefox Hello — the video chat button that sat inside firefox itself. you opened a conversation in your browser, sent the link, and the other side joined with one cli
22 Sep 2016 Milk Music — samsung shipped milk music in march 2014 as a galaxy-only free radio app with an optional paid tier. the whole catalog and the recommendation engine r
27 Sep 2016 Racing Musume — when dmm announced this in august 2015 the pitch was that everything from sports cars to lawn mowers was about to become a girl. racing musume deliver
28 Sep 2016 Narrative Clip — a photograph every thirty seconds, roughly two thousand a day, and no shutter to press. memoto raised five hundred and fifty thousand dollars on kicks
28 Sep 2016 Pogoplug — eight days is how much warning cloud engines gave before it deleted everything. the notice went up on 20 september 2016 and the unlimited storage tier
29 Sep 2016 Sudden Attack 2 — sudden attack 2 launched in korea on 6 july 2016 as the sequel to the shooter that had owned korean pc bangs for a decade. twenty three days later nex
30 Sep 2016 Drugstore.com — drugstore.com was the late-1998 pitch that you would order toothpaste from a bellevue warehouse instead of walking to the pharmacy. amazon took a mino
30 Sep 2016 Lokalisten — bavaria had its own social network for eleven years. lokalisten was the version of facebook that prosiebensat.1 spent twenty-five million euros on, wa
Sep 2016 Mxit — mxit was south africa's whatsapp before whatsapp arrived. it ran on the cheap feature phones a teenager could afford in johannesburg or cape town in 2
30 Sep 2016 LEGO Minifigures Online — lego minifigures online was funcom's second try at a lego-branded mmo, announced in august 2013 as free-to-play and shipped on 29 june 2015 as a paid
30 Sep 2016 Marvel: Avengers Alliance — the disney/playdom facebook game where you played a s.h.i.e.l.d. agent recruiting a roster of 166 marvel heroes into turn-based squad battles. launche
30 Sep 2016 Readability — readability was one of the big read-it-later tools of the early 2010s, the button that stripped a cluttered webpage down to just the words and saved i
30 Sep 2016 Zenryaku Profile — six point three million people had a page on it in 2010, most of them japanese schoolgirls answering a questionnaire on a flip phone. zenryaku profile
30 Sep 2016 koebu — 947,287 accounts and 4,382,379 recorded voice clips, counted seven months before the plug came out. koebu was japanese and it was audio only, and it r
30 Sep 2016 Zaption — workday bought zaption on june 30 2016 for the team and the technology, and named the closing date in the same announcement. the platform ran three mo
30 Sep 2016 EZガイドマップ — kddi ran two map products and separated them in one line: ez navi walk told you how to get there, ez guide map told you where to go. you bought a them
Oct 2016 HotBot — hotbot launched in 1996 with the loudest design of any search engine on the web and a back-end called inktomi that updated its index weekly when its r
1 Oct 2016 Grouper — michael waxman and tom brown built it in 2011 out of new york. two strangers each brought two friends, grouper picked the bar and comped the first rou
Oct 2016 Putlocker — putlocker was the streaming index that inherited megaupload's audience. it did not host the files, it just pointed at the hosts that did, which made i
Oct 2016 Matchmaker.com — matchmaker began in 1986 as a matching feature on a texas bulletin board running off an apple ii+, spread city by city as licensed local systems, and
Oct 2016 3DR Solo — dji announced the phantom 3 on 8 april 2015 and 3d robotics announced the solo five days later, which is most of the story right there. the solo carri
Oct 2016 Wawa-Mania — a maintenance page in october 2016 said the reverse proxy was down and the forum would be back in a few hours. it never came back. wawa-mania was a fr
Oct 2016 PriceZombie — two developers in tampa built a price tracker that did the thing camelcamelcamel deliberately would not: compare amazon's history against walmart's, n
1 Oct 2016 Aukro.ua — sixty four thousand sellers were carried off aukro.ua in the autumn of 2016 and almost none of them had to lift a finger: the goods and the hard-won s
3 Oct 2016 Microsoft Band — microsoft band was the wearable everyone forgot. it shipped on 30 october 2014 with a sensor stack that beat fitbit on paper: heart rate, gps, skin te
3 Oct 2016 Consensus Net (共识网) — zhou zhixing spent seven years inside the communist party's own literature office writing about liu shaoqi, then nine more running its publishing hous
3 Oct 2016 K2Kapital — on 3 october 2016 the russian tax service removed ooo k2kapital from the company register, and the reason written on the record is that it was an inac
3 Oct 2016 NhacSo.net — on 3 october 2016 one of the largest music sites in vietnam stopped, eleven years and four months after it opened. nhacso was the one that tried to li
4 Oct 2016 Meerkat — meerkat is the app that taught everyone what livestreaming felt like on a phone, then watched twitter copy it and shut the door behind. peak hype to o
4 Oct 2016 Google Nexus — nexus was google's reference phone, contracted out to a different manufacturer almost every year, running android with nothing added on top and priced
4 Oct 2016 Beacon Reader — five dollars a month, most of it to the one writer you chose, the rest split across everybody else on the site. beacon reader spent three years arguin
Oct 2016 Shots — shots was a selfie app for teenagers who followed justin bieber, and for a while eight million of them showed up. it stripped out comments and like co
5 Oct 2016 Ya.Online — mikhail pishchagin, one of the developers behind the psi jabber client, built yandex a messenger out of psi's own source code and shipped it in septem
6 Oct 2016 Mystery Show — the rule was that the mystery could not be solvable by googling it. six episodes went out between may and july 2015, apple named it the best new podca
11 Oct 2016 Samsung Galaxy Note 7 — the samsung galaxy note 7 was the flagship android phone of 2016 for about seven weeks. batteries began igniting in september, samsung ran a formal re
14 Oct 2016 Visual Studio LightSwitch — $299 bought a microsoft tool that promised to turn a database schema into a working business application without you writing much of anything. it was
17 Oct 2016 United Front Games — united front was a vancouver studio assembled in 2007 out of people who had just come off ea black box and rockstar vancouver. it made modnation racer
18 Oct 2016 ngmoco — neil young left electronic arts in 2008 and started ngmoco on the bet that the iphone was a games machine rather than a phone with games on it. roland
20 Oct 2016 Mixcrate — mixcrate was where mobile djs put their sets so other people could hear them. it ran for seven years on music nobody had licensed, which is the only w
23 Oct 2016 AllMyVideos — an anti-piracy trade report had put this one at just under a million dollars a year in profit on an 85 percent margin. the man running it said the rea
31 Oct 2016 Vessel — jason kilar's post-hulu venture vessel launched in march 2015 with a paid early-access video model. you would pay $2.99 a month for a 72-hour head sta
31 Oct 2016 Mobipocket — two people in paris built an ebook reader for palm pilots and psions in 2000, and invented a file format to feed it. amazon bought the company in 2005
31 Oct 2016 NovaLogic — a medical-imaging engineer named kyle freeman worked out how to draw an entire outdoor landscape out of voxels on a 486, and a small calabasas company
31 Oct 2016 Might & Magic: Duel of Champions — 996 cards across six factions, every deck led by a hero card. ubisoft quebec opened duel of champions to the public on 13 september 2012 as a free-to-
31 Oct 2016 Tom Clancy's EndWar Online — ubisoft shanghai spent roughly three years rebuilding a game that had flopped on consoles in 2008, and the rebuild lasted eleven months. the original
31 Oct 2016 twitterfeed — five million posts a day went through a service with one employee behind it. mario menti built twitterfeed in 2007 to push blog items into twitter aut
Nov 2016 Demand Studios (Demand Media) — the santa monica content factory that owned the ehow and livestrong property cluster and pumped fifteen dollar articles into it at industrial scale. r
Nov 2016 Hailo — three london cab drivers and three tech founders built the app that let you summon a licensed black cab instead of standing in the rain with your arm
Nov 2016 Panfu — panfu was a virtual world for children where you made a panda and explored an island of the same name. a berlin studio launched it in 2007, and by 200
Nov 2016 Livestation — livestation carried live news channels to a computer back when live news was a television arrangement. it came out of skinkers on peer to peer code li
Nov 2016 HitFix — hitfix launched in december 2008 as an entertainment news site built by two people who had done the job inside much bigger companies. it crossed a mil
Nov 2016 Vokle — santa monica, june 2008. robert kiraz and edward dekeratry built a browser page that turned anyone with a webcam into a talk show host, with a queue o
Nov 2016 The Daily Currant — sweden's justice minister once cited a daily currant story about thirty-seven marijuana overdoses in colorado. daniel barkeley's satire blog ran from
Nov 2016 Legitmix — fourteen dollars was roughly what one remix cost you, because you had to buy every song the remixer had sampled before the thing would play. legitmix
1 Nov 2016 Pixelapse — 20,541,100 revisions and about 92 terabytes of design files went through pixelapse before it closed on 1 november 2016. it was git for people who work
4 Nov 2016 Panoramio — panoramio was the photo layer of the old google earth. joaquín cuenca abela's spanish team launched it on 3 october 2005, google bought it in july 200
4 Nov 2016 Army Attack — digital chocolate closed in april 2014 and army attack kept running for another two and a half years without it. the game came out of the company's he
4 Nov 2016 Mythbuntu — on 4 november 2016 thomas mashos wrote that mythbuntu was finished, and the reason was that a team of roughly ten people had become a team of two. for
8 Nov 2016 The Brunei Times — brunei is a small country with a small press, and for ten years this was the paper there that pushed hardest at the edge of what could be printed. the
8 Nov 2016 Fetchnotes — two shutdown dates in nine months, which is more than most products get. a pair of michigan undergrads launched fetchnotes in 2011 as a notes app with
9 Nov 2016 Nasty Gal — nasty gal was the los angeles fashion e-commerce brand sophia amoruso built out of a 2006 ebay vintage store. it moved off ebay in 2008 and took index
10 Nov 2016 Grove.io — three ex-convore founders put grove online in november 2011 selling companies a private irc server with searchable archives, which was a strange thing
10 Nov 2016 @homepage — at three o'clock in the afternoon of 10 november 2016 about 120,000 japanese homepages stopped answering at once. nifty had been giving free web space
14 Nov 2016 Kaneva — kaneva was a free 3d virtual world that ran in the shadow of second life for ten years. you got an avatar, a 3d apartment, a 2d profile page, and embe
14 Nov 2016 Nitrous.io — two weeks was all the notice anyone got. the announcement went up on 31 october 2016, the boxes were deleted on 14 november, and anything paid after t
15 Nov 2016 Portfolio.com — a hundred million dollars bought condé nast a glossy business monthly in april 2007, eighteen months before the financial system it was covering came
16 Nov 2016 Cubby — cubby was logmein's dropbox competitor. its one real differentiator was that any folder on disk could become a sync target without moving into a speci
16 Nov 2016 EX.UA — ex.ua was the largest file host in ukraine, a cyberlocker where a whole country kept and traded its music and its films. it was so woven into ukrainia
17 Nov 2016 What.CD — what.cd was the largest private music tracker in bittorrent history. it opened on october 27, 2007, the same day oink's pink palace got shut down by u
23 Nov 2016 tape.tv — twenty-two days separated the end of youtube's german licensing war from the end of tape.tv. gema and youtube settled on 1 november 2016 and thousands
Nov 2016 Beejive — fifteen dollars and ninety-nine cents, in 2008, for a chat program. beejive charged it because beejiveim did something the iphone could not yet do on
28 Nov 2016 Zone Téléchargement — nassau, in the bahamas, is where the domain was registered in march 2010. the people behind it were two school friends from toulouse who later moved t
29 Nov 2016 Viadeo — viadeo was the professional network france built before deciding linkedin would do fine. it grew to sixty-five million members and spent a fortune try
30 Nov 2016 Mozilla Persona — persona was a mozilla foundation project launched july 2011 under the name browserid, a decentralized authentication system built on email-as-identifi
30 Nov 2016 shomi — rogers and shaw, two canadian cable companies, put their money together and launched a streaming service in november 2014. for the first nine months y
30 Nov 2016 Aupeo — aupeo was a berlin internet radio startup from 2008 that ended up somewhere nobody plans for: the dashboard. by 2015 it was running in five million ve
30 Nov 2016 The UnReal Times — on 30 november 2016 india's best-known satire site stopped publishing, three weeks after demonetisation had handed it more material than it ever had b
Nov 2016 ChangeTip — for a few weeks in november 2014, handing a stranger a few cents of bitcoin by replying to them was a thing the english-speaking internet actually did
30 Nov 2016 Sanrio Characters Fantasy Theater — ten months, january to november 2016, which is about as short as a licensed game from a company this size gets. sega games ran it, sanrio owned the ch
1 Dec 2016 Ghost Recon Phantoms — a free-to-play cover shooter that ubisoft carved out of ghost recon online and rebranded in march 2014. the tactical shooter niche was already crowded
Dec 2016 xoJane — xojane was jane pratt's women's website, the online version of the confessional, first-person magazine writing she had built at sassy and jane. it lau
Dec 2016 e-kolay.net — e-kolay was doğan online's portal, launched in 2000 to sell dial-up hours to turkish households that had never been online, advertised by kemal sunal
1 Dec 2016 Venere.com — four people in rome started taking hotel reservations over the web in 1995, back when most of the italian hotels they were selling did not have an ema
Dec 2016 Sugarscape.com — sugar was a british magazine for teenage girls that started in october 1994 and did not survive its readers moving online. the website it left behind
1 Dec 2016 iPredict — simon bridges, then new zealand's associate minister of justice, declined a small wellington prediction market's application for an exemption from ant
5 Dec 2016 Dot Earth — on 25 october 2007 a new york times science reporter posted about cash prizes for cutting greenhouse gases, and then kept posting for nine years. dot
7 Dec 2016 Pebble — the kickstarter-funded smartwatch from 2012. the original kickstarter raised 10.3 million dollars when 100,000 was the goal. shipped to backers in 201
9 Dec 2016 TiddlySpace — a telephone company paid for this. bt bought jeremy ruston's shop in 2007 and let the resulting open-source team spend years putting tiddlywiki on a s
10 Dec 2016 中国穆斯林网 (China Muslim Net) — on 10 december 2016 somebody reposted an open letter to xi jinping, written by chinese students abroad, into the current affairs board of the largest
12 Dec 2016 ChaCha — chacha was a us-only sms search service from scott a. jones and brad bostic, launched september 1, 2006 in carmel, indiana. you texted a question to t
14 Dec 2016 Kemono Friends (mobile game) — on 14 december 2016 nexon turned off a japanese mobile game that had not worked out. on 11 january 2017 the anime adaptation of that same game went to
15 Dec 2016 Wikimart — wikimart was founded in 2008 by kamil kurmakayev and maxim faldin, two russians who met at stanford and came home to build the marketplace layer for r
15 Dec 2016 Infestation: Survivor Stories — hammerpoint interactive put the war z on steam on 17 december 2012 and valve removed it two days later, because the store page described a game nobody
15 Dec 2016 Chaku-uta (着うた) — on 3 december 2002 a japanese phone could buy thirty seconds of a real recording for the first time, and what made it possible was carrier billing rat
15 Dec 2016 BBC Radio Explorer — jason williams built it in the ten percent of the week the bbc gave its engineers for their own ideas. you typed a subject, it searched every program
19 Dec 2016 Remote TV — the hdmi socket on this box did not carry any picture. it was there to send channel and playback commands to the blu-ray recorder sitting next to it,
22 Dec 2016 ClusterHQ — the board met three days before christmas and voted to stop that afternoon. flocker was the piece that let a docker container keep its data when it mo
23 Dec 2016 CyanogenMod — cyanogenmod was the android rom you flashed when you wanted your phone to be yours. it removed carrier bloat and ran on phones google had stopped upda
24 Dec 2016 Fever° — fever was a feed reader you installed on your own server and paid for once, thirty dollars, no subscription and no company behind it, just shaun inman
26 Dec 2016 Paperman — a client that kept force-quitting killed this one, and the operator said so out loud. gamepot changed development companies in april 2015 and kept run
27 Dec 2016 Absolute Games — two people bought the domain ag.ru in the spring of 1998 and put the first review up on 8 may. for the next thirteen years absolute games was where ru
29 Dec 2016 Devil's Third — devil's third spent seven years passing between publishers before nintendo put it out on the wii u in 2015, where the reviews took it apart. the campa
2016 Yo — yo was a one-button iphone app that sent the word "yo" to a friend as a push notification. there were no other features. it raised one and a half mill
2016 Sony SmartWatch — sony got to the smartwatch market three years before apple did, shipped three generations on three different operating systems, and then quietly walke
2016 51.com — 51.com ran as china's second-tier-city social network out of hangzhou from 2005, founded by pang shengdong on a photos and blogs stack with a games la
2016 ideeli — ideeli ran as a women's flash-sales fashion site out of new york from 2006, founded by paul hurley and mark uhrmacher on a daily-discount email list a
31 Dec 2016 Watchever — vivendi built a german-only netflix competitor a year before netflix arrived in germany, at exactly the same 8.99 monthly price. the first year burned
31 Dec 2016 Basis Peak — intel's fitness watch, launched november 2014, killed by an overheating recall in august 2016 and finished off when the sync service went dark on new
31 Dec 2016 Basis B1 Watch — the first-generation continuous heart-rate wristband from basis science, launched late 2012 for two hundred dollars, discontinued after intel bought t
31 Dec 2016 Compete.com — compete sold estimates of other people's web traffic. you typed in a domain and it handed back a monthly unique visitor count and a rank, worked out f
2016 UMD (Universal Media Disc) — the umd was a 60 millimeter optical disc sealed inside a plastic caddy you could not open, holding 900 megabytes on one layer and 1.8 gigabytes on two
2016 NetGrocer — netgrocer sold groceries by mail order before anybody had a word for it. one warehouse in new jersey next to a fedex hub, stocked with seven thousand
Dec 2016 TakePart — jeff skoll's film company made documentaries with a call to action attached, and takepart was where the call to action lived. it opened in 2008 and gr
31 Dec 2016 The European Library — the european library opened on 17 march 2005 and put one search box in front of the catalogs of forty-nine national libraries, which is something no c
2016 Bionicle — lego was nearly bankrupt when this launched in 2001, and a line of biomechanical action figures with a mythology attached turned into one of the prope
31 Dec 2016 Boredat — butler library at columbia is where it started, in 2006, as a board you could only reach from a columbia.edu address and named after the building peop
2016 Triond — half the advertising money was the offer, and for a few years around 2009 it was a real offer. triond started in tel aviv in june 2006 and worked like
2016 FinanceWorks — you never chose financeworks. it arrived inside your bank's online login in 2008, pulled your accounts together and drew you a budget, and whether you
31 Dec 2016 Breaking News — michael van poppel was a dutch teenager running a one-person news wire when he started the @breakingnews twitter account in 2007. msnbc bought it at t

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