─── THE 2020s WING ───
the recent dead. shutdowns from the pandemic-era pullback, AI's victims, the failures still close enough to mourn.
1670 dead. ordered by year of death, newest first.
pre80s | 80s | 90s | 00s | 10s (2010-2014 · 2015-2019) | [20s]
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2026-10-13
Microsoft Publisher (1991 - 2026)
microsoft's cheap desktop-publishing app for anyone who was not a designer. it shipped alongside word and excel in office starting 1991, taught a generation of...
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2026-10-09
Star Conflict (2012 - 2026)
fourteen years, which is the number gaijin kept returning to in its goodbye letter. star conflict opened in beta in july 2012 and switched its servers off on 9...
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2026-09-30
Amazon Mechanical Turk (2005 - 2026)
twenty-one years of piecework, named after a fake. amazon posted the closure notice on its own homepage on 25 august 2026 and gave everyone five weeks. mturk...
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2026-09-30
Zapytaj Onet (2006 - 2026)
poland's largest question and answer site took its last question on 21 september 2026 and switched off nine days later. zapytaj had been running since august...
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2026-09-30
bokete (2008 - 2026)
eighteen years of people writing one line under somebody else's photograph, and the counter went past a hundred million of those lines. bokete did not run out...
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2026-09-30
PHOTOHITO (2008 - 2026)
kakaku.com runs japan's price comparison site, and in february 2008 it hung a photo community off the camera half of its own database. for eighteen years every...
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2026-09-30
Naver TV (2012 - 2026)
by march 2026 youtube was taking about half of all the time koreans spent in entertainment apps, 50 million of them, 44 hours each a month. naver tv had been...
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2026-09-30
Mario Kart Tour (2019 - 2026)
276 million downloads over seven years, and an estimated 268.5 million dollars, which works out to under a dollar a head. that was mario kart tour, nintendo's...
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2026-09-30
LINE VOOM (2021 - 2026)
japan does not use whatsapp, it uses line, and for five years one of the four tabs at the bottom of that app was a tiktok. line voom replaced the friends-only...
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2026-09-30
Luminary (2019 - 2026)
one hundred million dollars of venture capital went into a paid app for a medium whose whole distribution model was free and open. luminary launched on 23...
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2026-09-16
Sina Cloud (2009 - 2026)
november 2009, six months after google app engine opened to the public, sina shipped the first alpha of sina app engine and china had a platform-as-a-service...
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2026-09-15
Columbia House (1955 - 2026)
seventy-one years, sixteen million members at the top, and the whole thing ran on one piece of arithmetic: twelve albums for a penny, then a fixed number of...
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2026-09-14
Relay.app (2021 - 2026)
every automation product in 2023 was selling the removal of people from the loop. relay.app sold putting one back in: a workflow that stopped, waited for a...
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2026-09-06
Autistici/Inventati (2001 - 2026)
for twenty five years an italian volunteer collective ran free email and blog hosting for people the police were interested in, and it survived every server...
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2026-09-04
Google Assistant (2016 - 2026)
a billion devices had it installed and about five hundred million people used it every month. google announced in august 2026 that it would be discontinued on...
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2026-09-01
Let It Die (2016 - 2026)
the apocalypse in this game is dated 2026, and 2026 is when the servers went off. let it die dropped you at the bottom of a tower on a drowned piece of tokyo...
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2026-08-31
NFTfi (2020 - 2026)
nftfi was the largest peer-to-peer nft-collateralized lending platform on ethereum, launched in may 2020 by stephen young out of cape town, south africa....
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2026-08-31
Manifest V2 (2012 - 2026)
google took seven years to remove the interface that let a browser extension look at a network request and refuse to make it. manifest v2 was the format chrome...
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2026-08-31
NetEase CC (2009 - 2026)
hangzhou, december 2009: netease's research institute shipped a voice client for gamers because yy and is had already proved the market would install one. it...
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2026-08-31
Trinket (2013 - 2026)
three and a half million people wrote fifty million programs inside it, and on 31 august 2026 every one of those programs became unreachable on the same...
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2026-08-25
Warface: Clutch (2013 - 2026)
on 25 august 2026 my.games switched off the last console servers and the international warface was gone, thirteen years after its worldwide release and...
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2026-08-13
Crazy Arcade (2001 - 2026)
crazy arcade opened in korea on 16 october 2001 with one mode: eight people in a small grid dropping water balloons on each other until one was left. it was in...
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2026-08-11
Bloctel (2016 - 2026)
a french law passed on 30 june 2025 made cold calling illegal without prior consent, which removed the reason for a do-not-call list to exist at all. bloctel...
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2026-08-01
HP Pavilion (1995 - 2026)
a 75 mhz pentium and a pair of altec lansing speakers in a beige tower, sold on 14 august 1995 as the first computer hewlett-packard ever built for a living...
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2026-08-01
Struckd (2016 - 2026)
two founders in zurich shipped a phone app in july 2016 that let you assemble a 3d game by dragging pieces around, with no code anywhere in it. by april 2021...
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2026-07-31
DataLounge (1995 - 2026)
datalounge opened in may 1995 as a gay web portal run out of new york and turned into an anonymous forum that outlasted almost everything it started alongside....
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2026-07-31
ShopStyle (2007 - 2026)
nineteen years is a long run for a shopping search engine, and shopstyle spent most of them owned by somebody else. andy moss built a magazine-shaped front end...
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2026-07-28
MindMeld (2011 - 2026)
cisco paid $125 million in may 2017 for a conversational ai platform and open-sourced it two years after that. the code sat on github collecting 694 stars and...
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2026-07-27
Wolfoo (2018 - 2026)
a london judge gave a hanoi animation studio until four in the afternoon on 27 july 2026 to delete every video featuring a cartoon wolf, across every platform,...
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2026-07-22
BET+ (2019 - 2026)
tyler perry owned a piece of this one, which is most of the reason it existed. bet+ launched on 19 september 2019 with his catalog as its spine and spent seven...
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2026-07-15
TV Time (2012 - 2026)
tv time started as tvshow time, a paris startup that shipped a tv-episode tracking app around 2012. an american company called whipclip acquired it in december...
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2026-07-15
Nina Protocol (2021 - 2026)
jack callahan and his two co-founders spent five years building the thing every musician says they want, a store where the artist keeps everything and no...
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2026-07-14
Microsoft SharePoint Designer (2006 - 2026)
frontpage died in 2006 and left two children. expression web took the general web design work and died young. this one took sharepoint, and it survived because...
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2026-07-09
Botanix (2022 - 2026)
botanix was a bitcoin layer-two network built by botanix labs, founded in june 2022 by belgian engineer willem schroé. the pitch was an evm-equivalent layer...
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2026-07-03
Binance NFT (2021 - 2026)
binance nft launched 24 june 2021 as the largest centralized NFT marketplace by trading volume, at the top of the 2021-2022 NFT boom. it ran through the market...
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2026-07-02
Halalgoogling (2013 - 2026)
on 9 july 2013 a search engine launched that did not index anything. it passed queries to google and bing, ran the answers through a filter for content it...
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2026-07-01
Samsung Messages (2009 - 2026)
samsung messages was the stock sms client samsung shipped on galaxy phones from the touchwiz era onward. samsung announced its end-of-service in early 2026 and...
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2026-07-01
Microsoft 3D Viewer (2016 - 2026)
3d viewer arrived in the windows store on 11 march 2016 under the name view 3d. after two renames it shipped in the box with windows 10 as the place your...
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2026-07-01
ProHosting (1995 - 2026)
across the top of free.prohosting.com, all through the 2000s, ran a line of text saying the company had hosted over 2,122,500 sites since 1996. that was the...
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2026-06-30
Tenor API (2015 - 2026)
the tenor api was the gif search endpoint that powered the discord picker, the whatsapp gif tab and a long bench of other chat clients. it grew out of riffsy,...
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2026-06-30
Trovo (2020 - 2026)
trovo was tencent's twitch competitor, launched july 2020 in the united states after a brief private beta under the name madcat. it opened with a reported $30...
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2026-06-30
The Elder Scrolls: Blades (2020 - 2026)
bethesda's mobile elder scrolls spinoff launched in early access during 2018 and went 1.0 on may 12 2020. it ran first-person dungeons stitched together with a...
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2026-06-30
Kakao TV (2015 - 2026)
kakao tv launched in june 2015 as the video layer inside the messenger every korean phone already had. it carried my little television, it absorbed daum's live...
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2026-06-30
SAPO Blogs (2003 - 2026)
sapo blogs was the free blog host attached to portugal's own portal, opened in november 2003 when publishing in portuguese meant either blogger or nothing. it...
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2026-06-30
Super! drama TV (1989 - 2026)
for seventeen years it was called super channel and star trek ran on it without a single gap. the rename to super! drama tv in 2006 came with a new strategy of...
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2026-06-28
Loopring (2017 - 2026)
loopring was one of the first decentralized exchange protocols to bring zero-knowledge rollups to ethereum, founded in 2017 by daniel wang, a shanghai-based...
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2026-06-26
4Columns (2016 - 2026)
ten years was the whole plan. a private foundation paid for four reviews a week, every friday, starting in september 2016, and the budget was scoped to run out...
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2026-06-19
Fornjot (2020 - 2026)
hanno braun spent almost six years alone on a boundary-representation cad kernel, funded by github sponsors who mostly gave him eight dollars a month....
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2026-06-15
Horizon Worlds (Quest) (2021 - 2026)
horizon worlds on the meta quest headset was zuckerberg's metaverse bet in its purest form, the vr social world the avatar selfie was supposed to sell. it...
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2026-06-15
Samsung Max VPN (2018 - 2026)
samsung max was the data-saving vpn samsung shipped on galaxy phones from 2018 onward, born from the corpse of opera max after opera killed its data-saver in...
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2026-06-11
iSpot (2009 - 2026)
on 27 june 2009 the open university put up a website where you could post a photograph of an insect and have somebody who knew insects tell you what it was....
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2026-06-09
Digilander (1998 - 2026)
digilander was the free web space that came with an italian internet account, first from infostrada and then from libero, and for most of thirty years it was...
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2026-06-01
Microsoft Sway (2014 - 2026)
sway was microsoft's bet that the future of presentations was a single scrolling web page instead of a slide deck. the bet did not win. it sat in the office...
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2026-06-01
Rec Room (2016 - 2026)
rec room was the seattle vr-social platform that ran from 2016 to 2026. it raised about $289 million and hit a $3.5 billion peak valuation in december 2021....
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2026-06-01
Juno Download (2006 - 2026)
on monday 1 june 2026 the store simply stopped selling. twenty years of dance music downloads ended with no countdown and no closing sale, just a farewell note...
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2026-06-01
PunterNet (1999 - 2026)
harriet harman asked arnold schwarzenegger to take this website down in 2009, which is the only reason most people in britain ever heard of it. punternet had...
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2026-05-31
Workplace by Meta (2016 - 2026)
workplace launched on october 10, 2016 as facebook's bet that the office wanted its own facebook. it grew out of an internal collaboration tool the company...
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2026-05-30
X Communities (2021 - 2026)
twitter announced communities at analyst day in february 2021 and started the beta on september 8 2021. it was meant to be a reddit-style topic forum inside...
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2026-05-22
CBS News Radio (1927 - 2026)
a memo on 20 march 2026 from bari weiss and tom cibrowski told the radio staff and about seven hundred affiliate stations that the service would end on 22 may....
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2026-05-15
Turtle WoW (2018 - 2026)
turtle wow started in 2018 with about a hundred people on one realm and grew into the largest classic+ server on the internet, running the 2006 version of...
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2026-05-15
Vega Conflict (2013 - 2026)
it started in a browser tab in august 2013, a free-to-play space war on facebook where you built fleets, raided other players' outposts and waited out upgrade...
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2026-05-10
AnimeKai (2024 - 2026)
the largest pirate anime streaming site of early 2026. surfaced after hianime's march 2026 shutdown. died on may 10, 2026 after a fire at its data center power...
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2026-05-04
Wikinews (2004 - 2026)
wikinews was the wikimedia project where volunteers wrote original news reports instead of encyclopedia articles, which meant doing journalism by committee...
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2026-05-04
Project Mariner (2024 - 2026)
google deepmind showed project mariner on december 11, 2024 as a chrome extension that took screenshots of your active tab, sent them to gemini, and clicked...
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2026-05-04
Robot Cache (2018 - 2026)
$532. that is what the store made selling game software across the whole of 2024, according to its own report to investors. brian fargo founded robot cache on...
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2026-05-02
Spirit Airlines (1992 - 2026)
at 3 a.m. eastern on 2 may 2026 spirit stopped flying, and the last airplane in the yellow paint had already come down at dallas fort worth after midnight....
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2026-05-01
Ask Jeeves (1996 - 2026)
the search engine that let you type a question in plain english and pretended to understand. the mascot was a butler called jeeves. he had a top hat. you asked...
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2026-05-01
360doc Personal Library (2005 - 2026)
360doc opened in 2005 as somewhere to clip an article you wanted to keep. twenty years later it held more than eighty million accounts and 1.1 billion saved...
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2026-04-30
EliteSingles (2013 - 2026)
elitesingles was the berlin company affinitas spinning out their eDarling formula in english. it launched in 2013, targeting university-educated professionals...
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2026-04-30
Infowars (1999 - 2026)
infowars ran out of austin, texas from 1999 and ended because of a defamation bill it could not pay. the families of the children killed at sandy hook...
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2026-04-30
Showmax (2015 - 2026)
multichoice launched showmax in south africa on 19 august 2015 and by late 2023 it had more subscribers on the continent than netflix did. the rebuild on...
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2026-04-30
ironSource Ads (2010 - 2026)
four and a half billion dollars of unity stock bought ironsource in november 2022, and three and a half years later unity switched off the part of it that sold...
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2026-04-30
Amara Public Workspace (2010 - 2026)
for sixteen years anybody could paste a video url into one box and start typing captions for it, and what came out the other side was a public pool of...
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2026-04-28
Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodhunt (2021 - 2026)
about six hundred people a day were still turning up when sharkmob called it. the studio in malmo had taken world of darkness, a tabletop setting built around...
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2026-04-27
Newtoki / Manatoki / Booktoki (2018 - 2026)
the largest illegal korean webtoon piracy hub and its two sister sites. ran from 2018 to april 27, 2026, killed by an operator who saw the emergency blocking...
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2026-04-27
DLive (2017 - 2026)
dlive was the blockchain-livestreaming platform charles wayn and cole chen launched in december 2017 as a twitch alternative on the steemit chain. it ran on...
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2026-04-24
Tripod.com (1995 - 2026)
tripod started in 1992 at williams college and launched the consumer free-hosting product in 1995, with bo peabody and dick sabot as the founders. lycos bought...
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2026-04-17
Call of Duty: Warzone Mobile (2024 - 2026)
fifty million people pre-registered before launch and the game earned 2.2 million dollars across its entire life. call of duty: warzone mobile shipped on 21...
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2026-04-15
Foundation (2021 - 2026)
the designer-favorite ethereum nft marketplace ran the second curated wave of digital art from 2021 onward. blackdove agreed to buy it in january 2026 and...
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2026-04-15
Messenger.com (2015 - 2026)
messenger.com was the standalone web client for facebook's chat product, spun out from facebook chat in 2015 and folded back into facebook.com eleven years...
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2026-04-13
Pocket Mortys (2016 - 2026)
pocket mortys was a pokemon parody with enough licensing muscle to say so out loud. you played rick c-123. you caught wild mortys with manipulation chips and...
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2026-04-09
King of Meat (2025 - 2026)
amazon games was aiming at a hundred thousand people playing king of meat at the same time. the steam peak was three hundred and twenty. glowmade, a guildford...
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2026-04-04
StatHat (2011 - 2026)
patrick crosby was okcupid's cto when he started stathat in 2011, a service that took a number out of your code and drew you a graph of it. the go team blogged...
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2026-04-02
ZAC Browser (2008 - 2026)
john lesieur wrote it for one child. his grandson zack was diagnosed with autism at three and could get nowhere with an ordinary browser, so lesieur, who ran a...
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2026-04-01
WWE Network (2014 - 2026)
wwe put its entire pay-per-view catalog and every live event behind one $9.99 monthly subscription on february 24, 2014, at a moment when a single ppv night...
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2026-03-31
i-mode (1999 - 2026)
i-mode was the closest thing the world had to a smartphone before there was a smartphone. ntt docomo launched it in february 1999 in japan as a managed mobile...
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2026-03-31
Yupp AI (2024 - 2026)
yupp was a crowdsourced ai model-picker site launched in late 2024 by pankaj gupta and gilad mishne, both ex-linkedin. users could run the same prompt through...
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2026-03-31
Myrient (2022 - 2026)
myrient was 390 terabytes of verified game preservation sets served over plain http by one administrator, with no account and no queue and no torrent client...
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2026-03-31
Drop (Massdrop) (2012 - 2026)
massdrop launched in 2012 to fix something forums were bad at, which was organizing a group buy that actually arrived. enough people committing to one order...
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2026-03-27
Clockwise (2016 - 2026)
seventy six million dollars and nearly a decade went into clockwise, an ai calendar that shuffled meetings around to protect blocks of focus time at companies...
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2026-03-26
Mac Pro (2006 - 2026)
wwdc, 7 august 2006, and the mac pro arrived as the last mac to leave powerpc, wearing the power mac g5's aluminum case with a couple of extra drive bays in...
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2026-03-19
Real Racing 3 (2013 - 2026)
real racing 3 was ea and firemonkeys' mobile racing flagship. it shipped february 2013 with licensed cars from porsche to bugatti and ran for thirteen years on...
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2026-03-19
Chtyvo (2005 - 2026)
at 13:34 gmt on 19 march 2026 a twenty-year-old ukrainian library replaced itself with a thank-you note. the day before, chtyvo.org.ua was still serving 85,557...
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2026-03-13
OpenAI Sora 1 (2024 - 2026)
sora 1 was openai's first text-to-video product. the research preview landed 15 february 2024, the public sora turbo release dropped on 9 december 2024 inside...
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2026-03-13
HiAnime (2024 - 2026)
hianime closed itself on 13 march 2026 with a goodbye message and no explanation, ending an operation that had already run under two other names. in its last...
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2026-03-09
Microsoft Lens (2014 - 2026)
microsoft lens was the office team's document scanner. it started as office lens on march 17 2014 for windows phone, then expanded to ios and android on april...
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2026-03-04
YggTorrent (2017 - 2026)
on the night of 3 to 4 march 2026 a hacker calling himself gr0lum deleted ygg's servers, and the largest french-language torrent tracker on the internet was...
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2026-03-01
HubPages (2006 - 2026)
hubpages was the 2006 paul edmondson content platform that paid amateur writers a cut of adsense and amazon affiliate revenue per article. it grew to a peak of...
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2026-03-01
Jeeran (2000 - 2026)
omar koudsi and laith zraikat started jeeran in amman in 2000, handing out free homepages when there was almost nothing on the web in arabic to put on them. it...
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2026-03-01
Blog.hr (2004 - 2026)
dario markuš, an it journalist, started blog.hr in may 2004 and it became the place croatians kept their diaries for the next two decades. nova tv took...
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2026-03-01
Archiwum Allegro (2013 - 2026)
every allegro listing that ended more than sixty days ago fell into the archive, and had done since 2013, which made the thing a price history of a whole...
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2026-03-01
ArcMap (1999 - 2026)
on 1 march 2026 esri switched off the application that had been the default way to look at a map on a work computer since the last week of 1999. it arrived...
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2026-02-28
Narinari.com (1999 - 2026)
ikeda ran it alone for the first three and a half years, posting under a handle borrowed from a cartoon robot and ending every news item the way that robot...
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2026-02-25
goo Mail (1998 - 2026)
goo mail opened in 1998 as a free mailbox on ntt's goo portal, and by 2008 it was the second most used webmail in japan behind yahoo. a redesign in march 2010...
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2026-02-25
Supervive (2024 - 2026)
47,913 people were playing supervive on steam on 24 november 2024, four days after the open beta opened. a hundred and twenty six million dollars of venture...
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2026-02-24
Project CARS 3 (2020 - 2026)
electronic arts canceled the franchise in november 2022, more than three years before anyone switched the servers off. project cars 3 shipped in august 2020...
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2026-02-20
Amazon Chime (2017 - 2026)
in september 2015 amazon absorbed a san francisco conferencing startup through a shell company and told nobody. what came out of it in february 2017 was chime,...
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2026-02-17
ZeroLend (2023 - 2026)
zerolend was a decentralized lending protocol launched in early 2023 as a friendly fork of aave, initially deployed on linea (the zk-rollup bootstrapped by...
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2026-02-16
Setapp Mobile (2024 - 2026)
macpaw launched setapp mobile in september 2024 as one of the first alternative ios app stores in the european union under the digital markets act. it ran for...
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2026-02-16
Google Dark Web Report (2023 - 2026)
google dark web report was a feature inside google one and later inside the standard google account that scanned dark web sources for your email address, your...
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2026-02-16
UniversCiné (2007 - 2026)
about fifty independent french producers and distributors owned this one between them, which made it the rarest thing in video on demand: a store run by the...
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2026-02-04
The World Factbook (1962 - 2026)
the world factbook was an almanac the cia compiled about every country on earth, classified from 1962, unclassified from 1971, in print from 1975, and online...
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2026-02-01
Amazon Fresh (physical stores) (2020 - 2026)
amazon fresh's physical grocery chain opened its first store in september 2020 in woodland hills, los angeles. by 2022 the chain had 38 us stores plus 19 in...
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2026-01-31
Belkin Wemo (cloud) (2012 - 2026)
belkin wemo was the smart-home line that launched at ces 2012 with a wifi smart plug and a motion sensor. it ran on belkin's own cloud for fourteen years...
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2026-01-31
Ready Player Me (2021 - 2026)
ready player me was the closest anyone came to an avatar you owned rather than rented. you built a face once, and developers wired it into their own games and...
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2026-01-31
ShopRunner (2010 - 2026)
seventy-nine dollars a year, chosen because that was the number amazon charged for prime, spread across a hundred other people's stores instead of one. gsi...
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2026-01-30
NBA Live 19 (2018 - 2026)
nba live 19 was the 22nd and final installment of ea's basketball series, released september 7, 2018 on ps4 and xbox one. it was developed by ea tiburon as a...
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2026-01-30
Nintendo Switch Game Vouchers (2019 - 2026)
ninety-nine dollars and ninety-nine cents bought two vouchers, each one redeemable for a full-price nintendo switch game off an approved list, which came to a...
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2026-01-20
The Sims Mobile (2018 - 2026)
the sims mobile was ea's free-to-play phone version of the sims 4. it shipped worldwide in march 2018, topped the app store for a week, spent its eight years...
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2026-01-20
Maxmodels.pl (2008 - 2026)
marcin tymkowski built a portfolio site for polish models and the photographers who wanted to shoot them, interia bought it inside two years and kept him on...
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2026-01-13
EyeEm (2011 - 2026)
eyeem was the berlin photo marketplace and community that spent a decade positioning itself as the european alternative to instagram for the mobile-first...
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2026-01-12
Anthem (2019 - 2026)
anthem was bioware's bid at a destiny-style looter-shooter, built on an engine the studio could not bend, shipped in february 2019 in a state that critics...
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2026-01-01
Napster (streaming) (2003 - 2026)
the napster brand had a long second life as a streaming service. roxio bought the corpse in 2002 and launched napster 2.0 in october 2003 as a paid music...
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2026-01-01
Steam for Chromebooks (2022 - 2026)
steam for chromebooks was a four-year beta. google and valve ran the borealis project from march 2022 to january 2026, putting a native steam client inside a...
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2026-01-01
Asus ZenFone (2014 - 2026)
asus announced the first zenfones at CES in january 2014 and spent twelve years never quite getting to scale. the line's best years were 2021 to 2023, when the...
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2026-01-01
Snapzu (2013 - 2026)
in july 2015 reddit's moderators shut their boards in protest and a few thousand people went looking for somewhere else to post. snapzu was one of the...
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2025-12-31
MTV Music Channels (1981 - 2025)
five linear music-video channels died together on 31 december 2025. mtv music, mtv 80s, mtv 90s, club mtv, mtv live. paramount let the distribution contracts...
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2025-12-31
Mercedes-Benz mbrace (2009 - 2025)
mbrace was mercedes-benz usa's connected-vehicle service, the layer that sat between the car and verizon's 3g network and gave you remote start, stolen vehicle...
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2025-12-31
Panels (MKBHD) (2024 - 2025)
panels was marques brownlee's paid wallpaper subscription. it launched in september 2024 at $11.99 a month or $49.99 a year, hit number one in the ios and...
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2025-12-31
Radish Fiction (2016 - 2025)
radish fiction was the new york based serial-fiction mobile app founded in february 2016 by seung yoon lee, a korean rhodes scholar and former byline reporter....
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2025-12-31
Mola (2019 - 2025)
mola was a streaming service owned by a clove cigarette fortune. djarum took the indonesian rights to the english premier league away from bein sports in...
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2025-12-31
Anime Network (2002 - 2025)
anime network was a.d. vision's attempt to put anime on american cable, launched in late 2002 as a video on demand service and expanded into a 24 hour channel...
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2025-12-31
HP-UX (1982 - 2025)
forty three years is a long run for an operating system, and this one spent most of it underneath things that were not allowed to stop, bank ledgers and...
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2025-12-31
MetroCard (1994 - 2025)
on 6 january 1994 the new york subway sold its first fare card and started the slow job of killing the token. that took nine years. the card itself lasted...
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2025-12-31
Boxcryptor (2011 - 2025)
two people in augsburg wrote a tool to encrypt their own dropbox folder, then posted it in dropbox's own user forum on 5 august 2011. a thousand downloads...
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2025-12-31
Gumstix (2003 - 2025)
gordon kruberg started gumstix in 2003 and had a full linux computer measuring 20 by 80 millimeters on sale by may 2004, which was most of a decade before a...
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2025-12-30
Triller (2015 - 2025)
triller was the loudest of the tiktok rivals during the 2020 india ban and the trump-era tiktok-divestiture noise. ryan kavanaugh wrapped it in a boxing-event...
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2025-12-19
Guilded (2017 - 2025)
guilded launched on march 17 2017 from eli brown's pitch as the gaming-clan chat platform discord did not want to be. premium tier features were free from day...
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2025-12-19
Amino (2012 - 2025)
amino shut down without warning on 19 december 2025. the servers stopped responding and the apps stopped loading. medialab ai, which had owned the platform...
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2025-12-19
InkyPen (2018 - 2025)
a small company in bergen put an all-you-can-read comics subscription on the nintendo switch on 17 december 2018, at $7.99 a month, and had the console to...
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2025-12-17
Bufftoon (2013 - 2025)
a game company remembered it was a game company. ncsoft opened bufftoon in december 2013 to sell webtoons and web novels, grew it to roughly three thousand...
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2025-12-16
Google Tables (2020 - 2025)
tables launched in september 2020 as an area 120 experiment, a work-tracking grid that was google's answer to airtable. in 2021 it moved out of beta and was...
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2025-12-15
Arkham Exchange (2024 - 2025)
arkham exchange was the trading subsidiary of arkham intelligence, the blockchain analytics company. it launched as a crypto derivatives venue in october 2024,...
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2025-12-05
Limitless Pendant (2024 - 2025)
limitless was the second life of rewind ai. rewind had shipped a mac screen-recording app in 2022, then in april 2024 the team rebranded as limitless and...
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2025-12-03
Adobe Aero (2019 - 2025)
adobe shipped an ar authoring app at the 2019 max keynote and quietly walked it off six years later. by 2025 the company had rotated its compute budget toward...
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2025-12-02
ESPN3 (2005 - 2025)
espn3 started as espn360.com in 2005 and spent twenty years being the sports service nobody could buy. there was no subscription. espn charged american...
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2025-12-02
Cree Wikipedia (2004 - 2025)
eighty-six thousand people speak cree, and for twenty-one years the wikipedia carrying their language code sat almost empty. the code pointed at a continuum of...
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2025-12-01
Microsoft Mesh (2021 - 2025)
microsoft mesh was the post-altspacevr, post-hololens attempt to bolt avatars and shared 3d spaces onto teams. it spent its first two years as a preview,...
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2025-12-01
Fundly (2009 - 2025)
$350 million had gone through it by 2015, most of that in small gifts to school teams and animal shelters rather than to gadgets on kickstarter. fundly started...
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2025-11-27
Tribe Nine (2025)
tribe nine landed 20 february 2025 as a mobile action rpg from kazutaka kodaka's too kyo games and akatsuki, a game spin-off of the 2022 anime built around...
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2025-11-27
Mullvad Leta (2023 - 2025)
on 6 november 2025 mullvad gave its search proxy three weeks to live. leta had spent most of its two and a half years behind a paid vpn account, passing...
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2025-11-25
goo (1997 - 2025)
at one in the afternoon on 25 november 2025, ntt turned off a portal that had been running since 1997. goo started as a japanese-language crawler a year before...
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2025-11-21
Supermaven (2024 - 2025)
jacob jackson had already built tabnine when he started supermaven in february 2024, and the pitch was speed. a completion model called babble, with a context...
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2025-11-18
goo blog (2004 - 2025)
ntt docomo gave the reason for this one in corporate plain text: concentrating management resources after changes in market trends and in how much the service...
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2025-11-17
DappRadar (2018 - 2025)
dappradar was the analytics platform for blockchain applications, the one most web3 founders pointed traders at when they needed to prove their dapp had real...
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2025-11-17
TCM Movie Database (2006 - 2025)
the american film institute licensed its catalog of feature films to turner classic movies in 2006, and tcm wrapped it in a free public database that grew past...
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2025-11-15
Listly (2011 - 2025)
on 15 september 2025 listly published a shutdown plan, and on 15 november it closed. for fourteen years it made a list that other people could add to, embedded...
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2025-11-10
POCO.cn (2003 - 2025)
poco was one of china's first photography communities, opened in 2003 in guangzhou and grown over twenty-two years into a place with more than a hundred...
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2025-11-08
MemeStreams (2001 - 2025)
on 8 november 2025 the dns zone for memestreams.net was edited and the address record came out of it, which is how a community that had been answering since...
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2025-11-05
Monkeybuzz (2012 - 2025)
monkeybuzz was a brazilian independent music site founded in 2012 by lucas repullo, who was twenty years old at the time. for thirteen years it covered...
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2025-11-04
Tarisland (2024 - 2025)
tarisland was tencent's cross-platform world of warcraft clone, developed by level infinite with locojoy and published worldwide under the level infinite...
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2025-11-01
BharatAgri (2017 - 2025)
bharatagri was a pune and bengaluru based agritech founded in 2017 by siddharth dialani and sai gole, both iit madras alumni. the platform ran an ai-driven...
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2025-11-01
NateOn (2002 - 2025)
nateon was the korean instant messenger that overtook msn in its home country in may 2005 and stayed on top for the rest of the decade. sk communications built...
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2025-11-01
Film School Rejects (2006 - 2025)
nineteen years of movie writing, run by one person on his own money. neil miller started film school rejects in february 2006, in the window when a film blog...
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2025-10-31
Facebook Gaming Creator Program (2018 - 2025)
facebook gaming creator program launched in 2018 as meta's twitch-style partner tier for gaming livestreamers. it offered early feature access plus a direct...
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2025-10-31
SeatGuru (2001 - 2025)
one frequent flyer got tired of guessing and started drawing seat maps in 2001. by the time tripadvisor bought it in 2007, seatguru held over a thousand...
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2025-10-31
Stoop (2018 - 2025)
seven years after it launched, the app that gave your newsletters their own address stopped accepting mail. stoop was built in philadelphia by a founder who...
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2025-10-30
FIFA 23 (2022 - 2025)
fifa 23 shipped 30 september 2022, the last title ea would ship under the fifa brand after nearly three decades of the licensing deal. ultimate team plus every...
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2025-10-29
edocr (2007 - 2025)
manoj ranaweera built edocr in manchester in 2007 and never took a penny of outside money for it. accusoft bought it in march 2015 and made the thing free to...
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2025-10-28
All Partners Access Network (1997 - 2025)
for twenty-eight years the american military ran a website that was deliberately not on a .mil address, so that officers from countries outside the us defense...
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2025-10-25
Nest Learning Thermostat (1st and 2nd gen) (2011 - 2025)
the nest learning thermostat went on sale on 25 october 2011 and turned a dial on a hallway wall into a consumer electronics category. google bought the...
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2025-10-20
Madden NFL 22 (2021 - 2025)
madden nfl 22 shipped 20 august 2021 with tom brady and patrick mahomes on the box, first dual-cover madden the franchise had put out since madden 10 in 2009....
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2025-10-18
dns0.eu (2023 - 2025)
sixty-two servers in fifty-five datacenters across twenty-seven european cities, free to anybody, run by the two people who had already built nextdns. this was...
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2025-10-17
まんがライフWIN (2009 - 2025)
pop team epic started here, on a free four-panel comic site run by a tokyo publisher that updated every single day and asked nobody for an account. まんがライフWIN...
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2025-10-17
WEBコミックガンマ (2013 - 2025)
made in abyss ran here. akihito tsukushi started it in october 2012 on the story annex of a free four-panel comic site, and in december 2013 takeshobo renamed...
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2025-10-17
ストーリアダッシュ (2017 - 2025)
a print magazine called まんがライフSTORIA put a website up in april 2017 and named it after itself, down to a prime mark on the end. the magazine stopped in july...
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2025-10-17
WEBコミックガンマぷらす (2018 - 2025)
takeshobo stopped printing ナマイキッ! with its may 2018 issue and put the orphaned serials on a website two months before the last copy shipped. the website then...
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2025-10-16
KartRider: Drift (2023 - 2025)
in 2007 roughly a quarter of south korea had played the original kartrider at least once. the sequel nexon built to replace it arrived on 12 january 2023, free...
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2025-10-15
Bing Maps Streetside (2009 - 2025)
bing maps streetside launched in december 2009 as microsoft's google street view answer. it covered selected US metros plus vancouver, with europe added in may...
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2025-10-15
Logitech POP (2016 - 2025)
the logitech pop kit was a small wireless button paired with a wifi bridge. each button could fire up to three scenes depending on how it was pressed: a tap, a...
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2025-10-14
Windows 10 (2015 - 2025)
windows 10 shipped 29 july 2015 as a free upgrade from windows 7 and windows 8.1. it was the version microsoft said would be the last, the one that would just...
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2025-10-14
Microsoft Office 2019 (2018 - 2025)
office 2019 shipped on 24 september 2018 as the last office release microsoft told the press was really meant to be bought once and used forever. the reality...
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2025-10-14
Sinclair Research (1973 - 2025)
19 september 1973, a company called westminster mail order is incorporated in cambridge. it changes its name four times, puts the zx81 and the zx spectrum into...
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2025-10-14
Windows on Windows (1993 - 2025)
for thirty-two years every 32-bit windows nt release shipped a subsystem whose only job was to keep programs written for windows 3.1 running. it was called...
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2025-10-10
Apple Clips (2017 - 2025)
apple clips was apple's attempt to compete in the casual short-video space against snapchat in 2017 and against tiktok in the years after. it shipped on 6...
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2025-10-07
Need for Speed Rivals (2013 - 2025)
need for speed rivals shipped 15 november 2013 as the first nfs title ghost games ever built and the last one criterion co-developed. redview county open...
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2025-10-06
NHL 21 (2020 - 2025)
nhl 21 shipped 16 october 2020 for ps4 and xbox one with alex ovechkin on the cover, second time ovechkin had held the slot after nhl 07. ea vancouver rebuilt...
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2025-10-05
Dot (2024 - 2025)
on 5 september 2025 the two people who built dot posted a letter saying their founding goals had drifted apart and that neither of them wanted to compromise....
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2025-10-01
NHK+ (2020 - 2025)
nhk+ put japan's public broadcaster on the internet in april 2020, live and with a week of catch-up, free to anyone whose household already paid the reception...
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2025-10-01
Star Wars: Hunters (2024 - 2025)
zynga put it on a nintendo direct stage in february 2021 and then shipped it in june 2024, three years and four months later, after two public delays. it was a...
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2025-09-30
AOL Dial-Up (1991 - 2025)
the dial-up internet service that defined the 1990s american internet experience. you tied up the phone line, listened to the modem handshake, logged in, heard...
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2025-09-30
TypePad (2003 - 2025)
typepad was the paid blogging service from six apart, the same company behind movable type, launched in october 2003 as a hosted version of the same engine....
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2025-09-30
Yahoo Smart TV (2008 - 2025)
yahoo smart tv (originally yahoo connected tv) was the widget layer that lived on the back of internet-enabled samsung and lg and vizio and sony televisions...
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2025-09-30
Adobe Premiere Rush (2018 - 2025)
adobe premiere rush launched on october 15, 2018 at the adobe max conference as a stripped-down version of premiere pro for mobile creators who were shooting...
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2025-09-30
AOL Shield Pro (2017 - 2025)
aol shield pro was a chromium-based windows web browser that aol sold on a subscription for about $3.99 a month with a 30-day free trial. it launched around...
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2025-09-25
10000 Flies (2013 - 2025)
every morning at nine, a small company in düsseldorf published the fifty german-language articles that had been shared hardest in the previous twenty-four...
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2025-09-17
Oshiete! goo (2000 - 2025)
from november 2000 to september 2025 this was one of the two places japanese people went to ask strangers how to do something, and for most of that run it...
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2025-09-13
Refern (2023 - 2025)
a recent college graduate posting as jaks024 launched refern on product hunt at the end of 2023 as an ad-free local-first visual reference library for...
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2025-09-13
Hike Rush (2021 - 2025)
hike rush was the second act of kavin bharti mittal, the founder who had built hike messenger to 100 million registered users during its 2012-2020 run before...
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2025-09-13
Pandlr (2015 - 2025)
a jovem pan radio fan community on orkut in 2005 turned into the loudest pop culture forum on the brazilian internet. pandlr got its own domain in march 2015...
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2025-09-08
Nova Launcher (2011 - 2025)
nova launcher was the answer for fourteen years to the question "which third-party launcher should i use on android". one developer, kevin barry, kept it...
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2025-09-05
EresMás (2000 - 2025)
retevisión spent the year 2000 buying spanish internet providers and gluing them into one green portal called eresmás, which had a million access users inside...
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2025-09-05
Funtoo Linux (2008 - 2025)
daniel robbins built gentoo, resigned from it in 2004, and spent the next sixteen years on a second source-based distribution that carried the same ideas...
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2025-09-04
Thinkspot (2019 - 2025)
december 2018 is where it starts. patreon banned carl benjamin, jordan peterson and dave rubin said they would build the platform that could not do that, and a...
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2025-09-03
Amazon Freevee (2019 - 2025)
amazon freevee was three brands and one service. it launched on january 11 2019 as imdb freedive, an ad-supported video tier that imdb tucked into its own...
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2025-09-03
Skyforge (2015 - 2025)
skyforge was the moscow-built free-to-play sci-fi mmo where you started as an immortal on the planet aelion and climbed a seventeen-class atlas until you...
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2025-09-02
OSzone.net (2001 - 2025)
a forum opened in november 2001 to answer questions about windows, hit three hundred thousand visitors a day around 2005, and then spent twenty years getting...
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2025-09-01
TVPlayer (2013 - 2025)
tvplayer did not own any television. it owned permission to carry other people's, inside one country, and it gave that away free in a browser at a time when...
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2025-08-31
Blacklight: Retribution (2012 - 2025)
blacklight: retribution was a free to play shooter that shipped in 2012 with a visor you could switch on to see every enemy through every wall. it hit a...
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2025-08-29
Splitgate (2019 - 2025)
splitgate was 1047 games' arena shooter built on the portal mechanic of player-placed wormholes layered onto halo-style sci-fi combat. early access shipped on...
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2025-08-25
Google URL Shortener (2009 - 2025)
goo.gl was google's tracking-flavored bit.ly. it launched in december 2009 as a feature inside the toolbar, got its own domain in 2010, stopped taking new...
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2025-08-21
Ziilch (2011 - 2025)
michelle power started ziilch in 2010 because she had watched too much usable furniture go out with the hard rubbish, and launched it in july 2011 as a site...
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2025-08-20
Amazon Appstore on Android (2011 - 2025)
the amazon appstore on android was the alternate android app store amazon ran from march 22 2011 until august 20 2025 for non-fire android devices. the pitch...
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2025-08-01
HelloGiggles (2011 - 2025)
hellogiggles launched in may 2011 with zooey deschanel as the marquee co-founder, sophia rossi on the production side and molly mcaleer running editorial. the...
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2025-08-01
Kinja (2004 - 2025)
kinja was nick denton's attempt to make gawker media a platform rather than a set of blogs. launched april 2004 with meg hourihan from pyra labs as the...
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2025-08-01
Banxso (2021 - 2025)
banxso was a cape-town-based cfd trading platform launched in 2021 that grew rapidly on the back of deepfake video ads impersonating elon musk and south...
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2025-07-31
Whisper (2012 - 2025)
whisper launched on march 31 2012 from a venice california outfit run by michael heyward and brad brooks. the format was an anonymous post against a...
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2025-07-30
Peloton Guide (2022 - 2025)
peloton guide was a machine-learning strength-training camera launched 5 april 2022 in the us, uk, canada and australia at $295 (down from the announced $495)....
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2025-07-28
Fillos de Galicia (1997 - 2025)
a galician community built for the galicians who were not in galicia. manuel casal lodeiro started it in 1997, in galician, for emigrants and their children,...
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2025-07-23
Good Glamm Group (2017 - 2025)
good glamm group was india's first beauty-commerce unicorn, founded in 2017 by darpan sanghvi as the direct-to-consumer brand myglamm. it grew into a "house of...
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2025-07-18
Microsoft Movies & TV (2006 - 2025)
microsoft stopped selling films on 18 july 2025, without a countdown and without refunds. the store had been running since 2006 under three different names and...
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2025-07-18
Clear Linux OS (2015 - 2025)
on 18 july 2025 intel posted a forum thread titled "all good things come to an end" and finished a ten-year-old linux distribution the same afternoon. clear...
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2025-07-15
Politics.ie (2003 - 2025)
david cochrane started politics.ie in 2003 and it became the place irish political argument happened outside the newspapers, in english and in irish, through a...
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2025-07-15
Rockstar Games Social Club (2008 - 2025)
the shutdown announcement was a redirect. players noticed on 15 july 2025 that socialclub.rockstargames.com no longer went anywhere except the company...
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2025-07-15
Letopisi.ru (2006 - 2025)
a wiki for russian schoolchildren went up on 27 january 2006 with intel and the railway telecom operator transtelecom behind it, and the premise was that...
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2025-07-14
12ft.io (2020 - 2025)
12ft.io was one text box. you pasted a paywalled url into it and it fetched the page while identifying itself as a search crawler, because a publisher who...
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2025-07-08
Pocket (2007 - 2025)
pocket started on august 6 2007 as read it later, a firefox extension that nate weiner wrote so he could save articles for the train. by 2012 the rebrand to...
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2025-07-07
Microsoft Math Solver (2019 - 2025)
you pointed a phone camera at a line of handwritten algebra and it returned the answer with the working underneath, free and with no account to make. microsoft...
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2025-07-01
Fakespot (2016 - 2025)
saoud khalifah got burned by a fake-reviewed amazon order and built a browser extension that graded any product page on its review credibility. mozilla bought...
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2025-07-01
Windows Maps (2014 - 2025)
windows maps was microsoft's built-in mapping app, released on 20 november 2014 as the unified successor to the older bing maps app and the leftover pieces of...
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2025-07-01
MovieTickets.com (2000 - 2025)
a group of movie chains built their own ticket seller in 2000 so that fandango would not own the category outright. the war ran seventeen years and fandango...
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2025-06-30
Piggy (2016 - 2025)
piggy was an indian direct-mutual-fund investment app founded in 2016 by ankush singh with co-founders kunal sangwan and nikhil mantha, later a y combinator...
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2025-06-30
FC2WEB (2001 - 2025)
fc2 opened a free homepage space in 2001 and handed out addresses of the form yourname.fc2web.com. twenty four years later the servers underneath had aged past...
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2025-06-30
Intel Unison (2022 - 2025)
the goodbye arrived as a pop-up inside the app: "it was a great run, but intel unison is approaching its sunset at the end of june 2025." intel had bought an...
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2025-06-30
Woebot (2017 - 2025)
alison darcy came out of a stanford postdoc with a chatbot that delivered cognitive behavioral therapy from a clinician-written script. it published a...
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2025-06-26
Orbit by Mozilla (2024 - 2025)
firefox shipped an ai sidebar with other people's chatbots wired into it, and that was the end of the extension mozilla had been running for nine months. orbit...
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2025-06-25
goo dictionary (1999 - 2025)
twenty-six years of free lookups ended at one in the afternoon on 25 june 2025. goo dictionary was the box japanese speakers typed a word into without thinking...
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2025-06-24
Tastebuds.fm (2010 - 2025)
two bandmates in london built a dating site on the idea that your top artists said more about you than any profile could. it ran fifteen years, carried over a...
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2025-06-22
ALIWEB (1993 - 2025)
martijn koster announced aliweb on 30 november 1993 from nexor in nottingham, which makes it the first search engine anyone built for the web. it did not...
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2025-06-21
Khoros (2019 - 2025)
khoros was an austin texas enterprise social-customer-experience SaaS, formed by the january 2019 merger of lithium technologies and spredfast. lithium ran...
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2025-06-16
Archetyp Market (2020 - 2025)
three hundred officers in germany, the netherlands, romania, spain and sweden moved between 11 and 13 june 2025, and the seizure banner went up on 16 june....
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2025-06-03
XDefiant (2024 - 2025)
ubisoft built a shooter around one grievance, that call of duty had too much skill-based matchmaking, and shipped it without any. for about six weeks it...
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2025-06-02
Netvibes (2005 - 2025)
netvibes was a french personal start page. tariq krim launched it in september 2005 as an ajax-heavy dashboard where you could stack rss feeds and other...
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2025-06-01
Altigreen (2013 - 2025)
altigreen propulsion labs was a bengaluru-based commercial ev startup founded in 2013 by amitabh saran with three co-founders (shalendra gupta, lasse...
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2025-06-01
Whonamedit? (1994 - 2025)
ole daniel enersen made the first ascent of the troll wall in 1965 and spent the back half of his life writing down who every disease was named after....
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2025-06-01
Hudson's Bay Company (1670 - 2025)
charles ii handed a charter to his cousin prince rupert and seventeen other men on 2 may 1670, giving them the trade of every river draining into hudson bay,...
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2025-05-31
HeyTell (2010 - 2025)
two people ran heytell for fifteen years, which is longer than most funded messengers manage. steven hugg and jen harvey shipped it in february 2010 under the...
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2025-05-30
MultiVersus (2022 - 2025)
multiversus was a free-to-play platform fighter from player first games, published by warner bros. its appeal was a smash bros style brawler with bugs bunny,...
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2025-05-30
Fauna (2012 - 2025)
hundreds of paying customers. that is the figure fauna's own farewell letter reached for in march 2025, against the eighty thousand development teams its...
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2025-05-29
Dauntless (2019 - 2025)
dauntless was a free-to-play monster hunter analogue from phoenix labs. open beta started may 2018, retail launch september 26 2019 on pc, ps4 and xbox one...
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2025-05-29
Relevo (2022 - 2025)
vocento hired seventy-odd journalists off marca and as, pointed them at readers under forty, and told them to cover the sports the old papers ignored. in...
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2025-05-23
JPG.STORE (2021 - 2025)
jpg.store was the dominant nft marketplace on the cardano blockchain from 2021 through may 2025. it ran the trading layer for ada-denominated jpegs through the...
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2025-05-21
Ember Sword (2018 - 2025)
ember sword was a browser-based sandbox mmorpg from bright star studios (formerly so couch studios) in aarhus, denmark, led by ceo mark laursen. announced in...
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2025-05-21
Penny Arcade Forums (2001 - 2025)
penny arcade started as a webcomic in november 1998 and grew a message board in the early 2000s that ended up being the more durable half of the operation. it...
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2025-05-20
Builder.ai (2016 - 2025)
builder.ai raised over 450 million dollars on the pitch that an AI called natasha could build your app. wall street journal exposed in august 2019 that a lot...
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2025-05-17
Otipy (2020 - 2025)
otipy was a gurugram-based farm-to-consumer fresh-produce startup founded in june 2020 by varun khurana and prashant jain as a tech-driven spin-off of crofarm...
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2025-05-17
Citadel Olmera (2000 - 2025)
vladimir smirnov named his site after a chieftain in a nick perumov novel and ran it from june 2000. litforum, the board attached to it, registered more than...
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2025-05-16
Read.cv (2021 - 2025)
read.cv was the text-first social network for product designers and the slightly online corner of tech. andy chung, a former product designer at facebook and...
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2025-05-05
Skype (2003 - 2025)
blue logo, the boop boop ringtone, washed out video. how you called your grandma when she lived in another country. microsoft bought it for 8.5 billion dollars...
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2025-04-30
Tome (2020 - 2025)
tome was the ai presentation tool that opened in 2020 as a story-format slide builder and pivoted hard into generative ai in 2022. it reached twenty million...
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2025-04-30
Catch.com.au (2006 - 2025)
two brothers in melbourne copied woot in october 2006 and sold one discounted product a day. by the year to june 2022 the marketplace was moving 989 million...
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2025-04-30
Pivotal Tracker (2008 - 2025)
broadcom bought vmware in november 2023, vmware had bought pivotal in 2019, and pivotal labs had written this tracker in 2008 for the only team it cared about,...
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2025-04-26
Festivalinfo (2001 - 2025)
three swedes started it in the summer of 2001 as a side project, and by 2007 it was filing from more than three hundred festivals a year. festivalinfo covered...
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2025-04-25
Amazon WorkDocs (2014 - 2025)
twelve months was the notice period, and aws counted it to the day. on 25 april 2024 the service stopped accepting new customers; on 25 april 2025 the site...
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2025-04-17
EA Origin (2011 - 2025)
i installed origin around 2011 because i wanted to play battlefield 3, and there was no other way. ttnet broadband at home, mass effect 3 on the same client a...
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2025-04-17
Spectre Divide (2024 - 2025)
on 12 march 2025, two weeks after season 1 and the console launch, nate mitchell told players that mountaintop studios would close by the end of the week....
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2025-04-15
Hungama Music (2013 - 2025)
hungama music was an indian music streaming service launched in 2013 under hungama digital media. in mid-2023 it cut its free tier and went subscription-only,...
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2025-04-15
BluSmart (2019 - 2025)
blusmart was india's first ev-only ride-hail service, founded in january 2019 by the two jaggi brothers with cofounder punit k goyal out of gurugram. it ran a...
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2025-04-15
BluTV (2016 - 2025)
blutv was the first turkish subscription streaming service, launched under doğan holding on 23 january 2016, and for a few years it was where the interesting...
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2025-04-14
DogeQuest (2025 - 2025)
four weeks is the entire life of this one. the domain was taken out on 17 march 2025 through an anonymous registrar, the site put the names and street...
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2025-04-10
openSNP (2011 - 2025)
eight days after 23andme filed for chapter 11, bastian greshake tzovaras announced that the genetics commons he had run for fourteen years was closing and that...
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2025-04-09
Whisky (2023 - 2025)
fifteen thousand github stars and thirty nine releases in two years, then isaac marovitz posted a maintenance notice and stopped. whisky was a swiftui front...
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2025-04-02
DreamLab (2015 - 2025)
3.7 million phones downloaded it and nearly half a million people kept an account. dreamlab did its work at the only moment a smartphone is both plugged in and...
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2025-04-01
Zelle (consumer app) (2017 - 2025)
zelle launched the standalone consumer mobile app in june 2017 for people whose bank had not yet bundled zelle into its own app. by 2025 nearly every major us...
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2025-04-01
Qruiser (2000 - 2025)
at twelve noon on 1 april 2025 the biggest queer community site in scandinavia switched off, one day after the date its publisher had announced in february....
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2025-03-31
Visual Studio App Center (2017 - 2025)
app center was microsoft's attempt to package every step of mobile app delivery (build, test, distribute, analytics, push, crash reports) into one cloud...
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2025-03-31
Aspiration (2013 - 2025)
a los angeles neobank from 2013 that pitched itself as the climate-conscious alternative to wall street. the gimmick was tree planting and pay-what-you-want...
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2025-03-31
OSDN (SourceForge.JP) (2002 - 2025)
japan's own sourceforge, opened april 18 2002 by va linux and renamed osdn in 2015 to get clear of the american site's adware reputation. it hosted more than...
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2025-03-31
So-net Blog (SS Blog) (2004 - 2025)
sony's japanese isp opened a blog service in the autumn of 2004 and ran it through the whole arc of personal publishing, from 20 megabytes of image space to...
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2025-03-31
Splits.io (2013 - 2025)
ben carlsson started splits.io as a college project in 2013 and it became the place speedrunners kept their splits, the timing data that says which segment of...
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2025-03-31
NaNoWriMo (1999 - 2025)
twenty-one people in the san francisco bay area wrote novels in july 1999 because chris baty thought it sounded like a good month. by 2022 the event drew...
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2025-03-31
Indafotó (2007 - 2025)
13,641,979 photographs, counted to the last one in the closing notice, because indamedia knew exactly how many it was about to delete. eighteen years of...
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2025-03-26
DSLReports (1999 - 2025)
dslreports launched on may 28 1999, justin beech building it from new york as a place for us broadband subscribers to compare their isp speeds and complain...
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2025-03-25
Zap2it (2000 - 2025)
zap2it launched on april 3 2000 from tribune media services, built by combining the in-house tvquest and moviequest listings sites with the ultimatetv...
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2025-03-24
Lipa Later (2018 - 2025)
lipa later was a kenyan buy-now-pay-later platform founded in 2018 by eric muli. it raised about $22 million across seed and debt rounds. by 2023 it had...
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2025-03-24
Vodkaster (2009 - 2025)
télérama sent the email on 13 march 2025 and the logins stopped working the same evening. what died was a francophone film community that had run since 2009 on...
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2025-03-23
23andMe (2006 - 2025)
23andme sold you a saliva kit and mailed back a website that told you where your ancestors came from and what you might carry. it grew to more than fourteen...
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2025-03-19
Norfuk Wikipedia (2005 - 2025)
norfolk island sits in the tasman sea with around eighteen hundred residents, some of them descended from the bounty mutineers and the tahitian women who...
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2025-03-16
MathB.in (2012 - 2025)
susam pal built it in one night in march 2012 and ran it alone for thirteen years. what finally stopped him was moderation: every time a stranger pasted...
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2025-03-14
Urban Dead (2005 - 2025)
urban dead was the text-based browser zombie mmo kevan davis built and ran by himself from 3 july 2005 until 14 march 2025. players joined as survivors or...
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2025-03-13
NCAA Football 14 (2013 - 2025)
a likeness lawsuit is what ended this one, not sales. ed o'bannon and sam keller sued in 2009 over college athletes appearing in ea's games without being paid,...
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2025-03-09
COVIDtests.gov (2022 - 2025)
covidtests.gov was a mail order form with no price on it. you typed a united states address into a postal service page and four rapid tests turned up a day or...
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2025-03-07
Apostrophe (2012 - 2025)
apostrophe was a US direct-to-consumer dermatology service founded around 2012 in oakland california as yoderm. the platform matched patients with licensed...
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2025-03-05
FiveThirtyEight (2008 - 2025)
fivethirtyeight launched on march 7 2008 as a side blog by nate silver, an analyst from baseball prospectus who wanted to apply the same statistical method to...
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2025-03-05
Windows Subsystem for Android (2021 - 2025)
windows subsystem for android was microsoft's attempt to let a windows 11 pc run android apps, the way a mac can now run iphone apps. it shipped in 2021...
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2025-03-03
Viddler (2006 - 2025)
viddler was a video hosting site founded in november 2005 by robert sandie and three co-founders in bethlehem, pennsylvania, launched to the public in december...
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2025-03-03
İzlesene.com (2006 - 2025)
izlesene opened in 2006 as the first turkish video sharing site and nokta bought it the year after. its moment came when youtube was blocked in turkey from may...
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2025-02-28
Humane AI Pin (2024 - 2025)
the screenless ai wearable that was supposed to replace your phone and instead became 2024's most public flop. a small square that clipped to your shirt, with...
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2025-02-28
G-cluster (2000 - 2025)
founded in finland in 2000, before anybody had a phrase for it. the game ran in a datacenter and the picture came down the same cable as the television, with...
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2025-02-26
Kindle Vella (2021 - 2025)
29 october 2024, a tuesday morning: amazon said kindle vella had not caught on as it had hoped. the platform had launched in july 2021 to sell fiction one...
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2025-02-25
Monolith Productions (1994 - 2025)
february 25 2025, warner bros. closed three of its game studios in one announcement, and monolith was the one with thirty years behind it. it made blood in...
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2025-02-24
Dark Horse Digital (2011 - 2025)
announced at new york comic con in october 2010, delayed past its own january launch date, and finally opened on 27 april 2011 to enough traffic that the...
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2025-02-23
Nifty Gateway (2018 - 2025)
nifty gateway was the nft marketplace the cock foster twins launched in 2018. gemini bought it in late 2019. its peak moment was march 2021, when beeple's 69...
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2025-02-23
BookmarkSync (1999 - 2025)
november 1998, a company called syncit shipped a tray icon that watched your favorites folder and copied every change to a server, so the same bookmarks...
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2025-02-18
Amazon Inspire (2022 - 2025)
amazon inspire was amazon's copy of tiktok, a vertical feed of shoppable photos and short videos that lived inside the shopping app. it launched in the us at...
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2025-02-17
EA Sports UFC 3 (2018 - 2025)
ea sports ufc 3 shipped 2 february 2018 with conor mcgregor on the cover, the third and longest-running of ea canada's four-title ufc run. seven years of...
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2025-02-17
Realm Royale (2018 - 2025)
105,440 people were playing it at the same time in june 2018, in its first week on steam early access. by the following month the weekend peak was seven...
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2025-02-14
Create React App (2016 - 2025)
a hundred and three thousand stars, twenty-six thousand forks and two thousand four hundred open issues, all of it still sitting on github today. the react...
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2025-02-12
Getaround (2009 - 2025)
three people out of singularity university's first class wanted the idle car on your street rentable by the hour from a phone. five hundred and sixty eight...
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2025-02-10
Bento Africa (2019 - 2025)
bento africa was a nigerian hr-payroll platform that automated tax and pension remittances for its client companies. by early 2025 the payments were not...
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2025-02-09
Bukalapak (2010 - 2025)
bukalapak was indonesia's third major c2c marketplace, founded on 10 january 2010 by achmad zaky with two ITB classmates. it scaled into a unicorn behind...
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2025-02-03
Livestream (2007 - 2025)
livestream started life as mogulus and paid around a hundred thousand dollars at auction for the word it renamed itself to, back when that word was still a...
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2025-02-01
RateBeer (2000 - 2025)
bill buchanan started ratebeer in may 2000 and joe tucker ended up owning it. for twenty five years it was the reference database for anyone who cared what a...
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2025-02-01
Save This Life (2012 - 2025)
an austin company sold pet microchips and promised live operators 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. in early february 2025 the phones stopped being answered,...
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2025-01-31
RTFKT (2020 - 2025)
benoit pagotto co-founded rtfkt studios in january 2020 with steven vasilev and chris le as a digital fashion studio building nft sneakers and ar try-on...
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2025-01-31
Prime Try Before You Buy (2017 - 2025)
prime try before you buy started life as prime wardrobe in june 2017. the pitch was simple: prime members could order up to six clothing or footwear items,...
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2025-01-31
BlogTalkRadio (2006 - 2025)
alan levy set up a phone bridge in 2006 so his family could hear updates about his sick father, and then turned the same plumbing into a service where anybody...
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2025-01-31
Himado (2009 - 2025)
the last working days were the end of january 2025, and no announcement followed, because there was nobody whose job it was to make one. himado opened in june...
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2025-01-31
Polywork (2021 - 2025)
$44.5 million went into the idea that a professional profile should list everything you do instead of one job title. peter johnston founded polywork in 2018...
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2025-01-31
sub.club (2024 - 2025)
a hundred and fifty creators had signed up by the time bart decrem's studio ran out of money. sub.club launched on 29 august 2024 selling paid subscriptions...
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2025-01-30
YouTube Leanback (2010 - 2025)
youtube leanback was google's bet that the path to the television was the browser, not a hardware app. it launched in july 2010 at techcrunch disrupt as...
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2025-01-30
The Elder Scrolls: Legends (2017 - 2025)
the elder scrolls: legends was bethesda's free-to-play digital collectible card game set in the tamriel universe, launched on windows on 9 march 2017 with...
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2025-01-30
Moxie (2020 - 2025)
moxie was a small robot that talked with children between five and ten, and for a lot of families with autistic kids it reached something no app had managed....
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2025-01-28
WHOIS (port 43) (1982 - 2025)
on 28 january 2025 icann stopped requiring gtld registries and registrars to answer on port 43, and rdap became the official place to ask who owns a domain....
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2025-01-27
ElephantSQL (2013 - 2025)
twenty megabytes and five connections, free, forever, with no card on file. that was tiny turtle, and for about a decade it was the fastest way to put a real...
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2025-01-24
The Simpsons: Tapped Out (2012 - 2025)
tapped out was a springfield you built one donut at a time. ea shipped it on 1 march 2012 and ran it as a freemium city-builder for nearly thirteen years....
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2025-01-24
Amazon Today (2022 - 2025)
the idea was that the fastest warehouse in america is the shop on the corner that already has the thing in stock. amazon signed up chains like pacsun and gnc,...
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2025-01-20
CBP One (2020 - 2025)
nearly a million people had booked through it, about 1,450 a day. on 20 january 2025 the scheduling function was removed at noon eastern and every pending...
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2025-01-17
MakersPlace (2018 - 2025)
makersplace was the san francisco nft marketplace ex-pinterest engineers built in 2018 and shut down in january 2025. it was the venue that ran beeple's...
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2025-01-16
Rory McIlroy PGA Tour (2015 - 2025)
rory mcilroy pga tour shipped 14 july 2015 as the first ea pga tour title without tiger woods on the box since 1999. rebuilt on frostbite 3 for ps4 and xbox...
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2025-01-14
Dunzo (2014 - 2025)
dunzo was bengaluru's quick-commerce app founded in july 2014 by kabeer biswas with several cofounders. it grew from a whatsapp errand-runner group into one of...
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2025-01-14
Meta Spark (2017 - 2025)
meta spark was the free desktop tool that let anyone build an augmented reality filter and publish it into instagram and facebook. it opened at f8 in april...
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2025-01-12
Cohost (2022 - 2025)
cohost launched in june 2022 from a four-person not-for-profit cooperative called anti software software club. the team built a twitter-shaped indie network...
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2025-01-10
Trendalyzer (2005 - 2025)
trendalyzer was the software that made statistics move. a foundation in stockholm built it, and a bubble chart with a time slider turned two hundred years of...
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2025-01-09
Ubuntu Forums (2004 - 2025)
ryan troy started it in october 2004 as a personal side project a few weeks before ubuntu shipped its first release, and canonical took the whole thing over by...
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2025-01-08
Genieo (2008 - 2025)
somoto paid thirty four million dollars in july 2014 for an israeli company whose product apple's own malware blocklist already named. genieo was sold as a...
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2025-01-07
Meta Fact-Checking Program (2016 - 2025)
facebook launched its third-party fact-checking program on 15 december 2016, six weeks after the us election, under pressure to explain what the platform had...
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2025-01-01
WhiteHat Jr (2018 - 2025)
whitehat jr was an india-based kids' coding tutor platform founded in november 2018 by karan bajaj, ex-ceo of discovery networks india. it sold 1:1 online...
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2025-01-01
Netverse (2022 - 2025)
netverse was a television station trying to keep the audience it already had instead of renting it back from youtube. net tv owned the shows and the faces, so...
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2025-01-01
Krugosvet (2000 - 2025)
collier's encyclopedia stopped being printed in the united states in 1998. two years later its twenty four volumes turned up on the russian web, free to read,...
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2025-01-01
Qoos.com (2001 - 2025)
macau has about seven hundred thousand people and for most of the 2000s it had one place online where they argued. qoos opened in september 2001, hit sixty...
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2024-12-31
Magic Leap One (2018 - 2024)
magic leap one was the consumer-AR headset that was supposed to make wide-area-tracked goggles a normal thing. it launched in august 2018 after seven years of...
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2024-12-31
Google Jamboard (2017 - 2024)
jamboard was google's swing at the conference-room hardware market, a 55-inch 4k touchscreen sold for around 5,000 dollars plus a free ios and android app for...
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2024-12-31
Windows Mail and Calendar (2012 - 2024)
the metro-style mail and calendar apps that shipped with windows 8 in 2012. they were the default for twelve years across four windows versions. on december 31...
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2024-12-31
Wynk Music (2014 - 2024)
wynk music was bharti airtel's india-only music streaming app, launched on 1 september 2014 and bundled free for airtel mobile subscribers. it carried hindi...
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2024-12-31
Repod (2019 - 2024)
emmett harper and travis osterhaus' social podcast player, launched around november 2019. an episode-first ios app with an upvote-and-comment feed shaped...
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2024-12-31
InVision (2011 - 2024)
invision was the design tool that a lot of software teams ran their prototypes through in the middle 2010s. you uploaded screens, wired them together into...
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2024-12-31
Friday the 13th: The Game (2017 - 2024)
illfonic and gun media crowdfunded an asymmetric horror game where seven camp counselors ran from one jason voorhees, and it sold 1.8 million copies in its...
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2024-12-31
GeldKarte (1996 - 2024)
the average geldkarte payment was three euros. that is most of the story of a german chip purse launched in 1996, peaked in 2007, and still physically present...
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2024-12-31
DealsPlus (2006 - 2024)
dealspl.us was the address for seven years, because the real one was taken and a 2010 arbitration refused to hand it over. the site bought dealsplus.com...
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2024-12-30
8tracks (2008 - 2024)
the playlist site for people who still thought of mixtapes as a love language. you uploaded eight or more tracks, named the mix, tagged it with a mood or...
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2024-12-29
NETCOMICS (2005 - 2024)
netcomics put korean manhwa in english on the web in 2006 and charged by the chapter, at a moment when the rest of comics was still arguing about whether a...
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2024-12-24
Lilium (2015 - 2024)
lilium was a munich-based electric VTOL air-taxi startup founded in 2015 by four engineers out of TU munich. the lilium jet used 36 electric ducted fans in...
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2024-12-17
Mozilla.social (2023 - 2024)
in december 2022 mozilla said it was joining the fediverse, and plenty of people looking for a way off twitter read that as the cavalry arriving. the server...
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2024-12-16
Tinychat (2009 - 2024)
tinychat launched in february 2009 as a way to open a video chatroom inside a browser tab. by 2011 it was raising money from ashton kutcher and diddy. paltalk...
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2024-12-16
Microsoft Delve (2014 - 2024)
delve was microsoft's 2014 bet that the office graph could power a facebook-style feed of the documents and people you needed to see inside office 365. it...
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2024-12-16
Disney Mirrorverse (2022 - 2024)
five million people installed it inside two months and the math still never closed. kabam turned mickey mouse into a sorcerer, gave every other disney...
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2024-12-16
CongressEdits (2014 - 2024)
an ip address inside the us capitol complex edited a wikipedia article, and a bot announced it in public. that was the entire product. ed summers wrote...
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2024-12-15
Foursquare City Guide (2009 - 2024)
foursquare was the check-in game. you tapped a button on your phone when you got somewhere and earned points against every friend who did the same. dennis...
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2024-12-12
Chartable (2018 - 2024)
for six years the default answer to how is my podcast doing was a dashboard owned by nobody in particular. spotify bought chartable in february 2022 and...
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2024-12-11
My Yahoo! (1996 - 2024)
my yahoo was yahoo's customizable portal homepage, launched july 15 1996 as a per-user version of the main yahoo directory. you picked modules from a catalog...
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2024-12-10
Microsoft HoloLens (1st Gen) (2016 - 2024)
hololens 1 was a self-contained windows 10 ar headset, no tether, no phone, no host pc. microsoft sold it to developers and enterprises for three thousand...
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2024-12-10
Cruise (2013 - 2024)
cruise was a general-motors-owned autonomous ride service that ran driverless robotaxis in san francisco and a handful of us metros. on 2 october 2023 a cruise...
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2024-12-09
Spotify Car Thing (2022 - 2024)
spotify car thing was a 90 dollar dashboard touchscreen that played spotify in your car. it shipped in february 2022. by july 2022 spotify had stopped...
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2024-12-01
Renren (2005 - 2024)
renren was china's facebook for the late 2000s university generation. it launched in december 2005 as xiaonei.com (literally 'on-campus network') and was...
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2024-12-01
Ask.fm (2010 - 2024)
ask.fm launched on june 16 2010 in riga, latvia, founded by brothers ilja and mark terebin with three other co-founders. the format was an open inbox where...
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2024-12-01
Odd Todd (2001 - 2024)
todd rosenberg lost his job in june 2001 and put a flash cartoon called laid off: a day in the life on the web that november. it was about doing nothing all...
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2024-12-01
ExitMundi.nl (2001 - 2024)
"captivating text and appropriate images... delivered with unremitting good cheer. but still, you are gonna die." new scientist's line sat on the front door of...
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2024-11-30
wiki.vg (2010 - 2024)
tyler kennedy put the minecraft alpha protocol on a personal dokuwiki in 2010 because mojang had promised a modding api with documentation and then never...
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2024-11-28
Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp (2017 - 2024)
nintendo put animal crossing on phones and hung leaf tickets off every timer in it. seven years of campsite decorating and fortune cookies produced more than...
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2024-11-28
TikTok Music (2023 - 2024)
five countries ever got this one and none of them was the united states. bytedance built a paid streaming app on top of the largest music discovery engine on...
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2024-11-26
PlayStation VR (2016 - 2024)
five million of these shipped between october 2016 and the end of 2019, which made it the best selling headset of its console generation and also the one least...
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2024-11-25
Garnek.pl (2007 - 2024)
poland got a photo site in 2007 that refused to let you sort anything. no albums, no folders: you uploaded and it all went into the same pot, which is what...
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2024-11-24
Delicious Library (2004 - 2024)
wil shipley posted in november 2024 that amazon had shut off the feed delicious library used to look up items, and that nobody had told him. he pulled the app...
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2024-11-22
Ondsel (2023 - 2024)
open core ventures, the fund started by gitlab's sid sijbrandij, put money and a founder behind a simple proposition in january 2023: take freecad, the open...
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2024-11-15
Omnivore (2022 - 2024)
omnivore was the open-source, agpl-licensed read-later app jackson harper and hongbo wu shipped in 2022. it was free, had no ads, ran on web and ios. the...
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2024-11-15
TakeLessons (2006 - 2024)
takelessons started in san diego in 2006 as a way to find somebody within driving distance who could teach you guitar, and grew into a marketplace for private...
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2024-11-12
Forward Health (2017 - 2024)
forward was an ex-google-founder's attempt to rebuild the doctor's office as a monthly-subscription tech product. adrian aoun founded it in 2017 in san...
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2024-11-11
Veoh (2005 - 2024)
veoh was the second-tier video sharing site of the 2006-2010 era. it was bigger than blip.tv and revver, smaller than youtube, and the differentiator was that...
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2024-11-11
Microsoft Start (2021 - 2024)
microsoft tried to retire msn in 2021 by calling the news feed microsoft start. for three years it shipped that name across edge, windows widgets and a phone...
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2024-11-10
Empire Avenue (2010 - 2024)
empire avenue launched out of edmonton on february 23 of 2010 as a virtual stock market where you bought and sold shares in other people based on their online...
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2024-11-07
LocalMonero (2017 - 2024)
april 2017 gave the monero community its own version of localbitcoins: no verified accounts, no exchange holding the coins while two strangers agreed on a...
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2024-11-04
Microsoft Paint 3D (2017 - 2024)
microsoft paint 3d was the app microsoft put in the windows 10 start menu in april 2017 to make 3d modeling feel as normal as the classic paint program. it...
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2024-11-04
Bowery Farming (2015 - 2024)
bowery farming was new york's vertical-farming unicorn founded in 2015 by irving fain. it ran indoor farms in new jersey and maryland growing leafy greens for...
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2024-10-31
Microsoft Mover (2012 - 2024)
mover.io was an edmonton startup founded around 2012 by eric warnke and others, building a web tool that moved files from any cloud storage provider into any...
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2024-10-31
Chollian (1985 - 2024)
chollian was the first of korea's four pc communication services and the last one to die. it began in october 1985 as a videotex trial at dacom, opened...
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2024-10-31
Accord's Library (2021 - 2024)
in April 2024 yoko taro sent a thank-you note to the volunteers who had spent three years cataloging the books, drama cds and stage plays attached to his...
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2024-10-29
Armageddon MUD (1991 - 2024)
three people in urbana, illinois put a dikumud on the wire in 1991 and set it on zalanthas, a desert world where water is the currency and dying is permanent....
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2024-10-22
CodeProject (1999 - 2026)
codeproject launched in november 1999 in toronto, founded by chris maunder and david cunningham as an article archive for visual c++ and mfc developers. it...
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2024-10-22
Postbox (2008 - 2024)
postbox was a paid desktop email client written by the mozilla developers who had been running thunderbird until mozilla lost interest in it. it launched at a...
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2024-10-22
Miríadax (2013 - 2024)
seven million course enrolments, and the notice that ended it was one line of text above the search box. telefónica learning services opened miríadax in...
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2024-10-21
Microsoft Surface Duo (2020 - 2024)
surface duo was microsoft's quiet return to phone hardware, four years after microsoft wrote off the lumia line. it was a dual-screen android device with two...
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2024-10-15
PLAY Magazine (1995 - 2024)
PLAY was the last of the future publishing PlayStation print line. it began in november 1995 as the official uk playstation magazine, shipping with the...
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2024-10-14
000webhost (2007 - 2024)
13,545,468 accounts, each with an email address and a password stored in plain text: that is what leaked from 000webhost in 2015, and it is what most people...
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2024-10-07
Curious Cat (2016 - 2024)
curious cat was a link in your twitter bio that let anybody ask you something with no name attached to it, which is the same bargain formspring and ask.fm made...
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2024-10-01
WordPad (1995 - 2024)
wordpad was the windows accessory that ran for 29 years and did not survive windows 11 24h2. microsoft shipped it with windows 95 on 24 august 1995 as the...
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2024-10-01
Socratic (2013 - 2024)
socratic started in 2013 as a website where students posted math and science questions and other people answered them, then became a phone app that read a...
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2024-10-01
Flipgrid (Flip) (2014 - 2024)
a media lab at the university of minnesota built it in january 2014 and charged teachers a subscription to use it. microsoft bought the company in june 2018,...
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2024-10-01
Hakuna Live (2019 - 2024)
match group bought hyperconnect in 2021 for the video technology and the dating-app roadmap, and hakuna live came along in the box. it was a korean live...
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2024-10-01
Koinup (2007 - 2024)
brescia, march 2007: two italians built a photo-sharing site for people who took pictures inside virtual worlds. koinup indexed second life and a dozen smaller...
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2024-10-01
Guzei.com (1995 - 2024)
igor guzey started a list of moscow radio stations in 1995 on a staff account at moscow state university and was still running it twenty nine years later, on...
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2024-10-01
Technorealism (1998 - 2024)
on 12 march 1998 twelve american technology writers published eight principles about how to think clearly about the internet, and twenty-five hundred people...
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2024-10-01
Guildlings (2019 - 2024)
asher vollmer made threes, co-founded a studio on the strength of it, and spent the money on an eleven-person adventure game about teenagers and a phone with a...
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2024-09-30
Boomerang (streaming) (2017 - 2024)
boomerang streaming was the classic-cartoon app warner ran alongside the linear boomerang cable channel. it launched on 13 april 2017 at $4.99 a month, the...
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2024-09-30
TVerプラス (2006 - 2024)
a cartoon bean became far more famous than the website it was invented to advertise, and it is the part of this story anyone in japan can still name. dogatch...
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2024-09-30
Akiba Souken (2002 - 2024)
the last crawl that found a working page came at 06:05 utc on 30 september 2024. the next one, less than three hours later, got http 410 gone, which is the...
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2024-09-30
Atom Publishing Protocol (2007 - 2024)
json took it apart without a vote. rfc 5023 shipped in october 2007 as the standard way to publish and edit resources over http, edited by joe gregorio and...
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2024-09-30
Oracle Advertising (2014 - 2024)
two billion dollars of revenue in 2022 had become three hundred million by the summer of 2024, and safra catz ended the whole business in one sentence of an...
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2024-09-29
Kaspersky (US) (2005 - 2024)
the russian antivirus that became one of the third-place consumer AV brands worldwide, then got kicked out of the united states specifically. the commerce...
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2024-09-25
Amazon Astro for Business (2023 - 2024)
amazon astro for business was a wheeled patrol-and-monitor security robot for small and medium businesses, sold at $2,350 plus a $60/month astro secure...
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2024-09-23
Party.Space (2020 - 2024)
three founders in kyiv spent the first lockdown building a place you could throw a company party in, and for two years grammarly and wargaming actually booked...
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2024-09-19
TV Cream (1997 - 2024)
tv cream was a british website about british television, written by people who had been children in front of it. it ran for twenty-seven years, indexed...
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2024-09-16
TouchArcade (2008 - 2024)
toucharcade launched march 12 2008 as the ios-gaming-news sister site to macrumors, two months ahead of the app store opening. arnold kim and blake patterson...
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2024-09-09
Synced (2023 - 2024)
synced was the free-to-play sci-fi co-op looter-shooter that next studios built and tencent's level infinite published in september 2023. it peaked at 10,272...
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2024-09-06
Concord (2024 - 2024)
concord was a sony first-party hero shooter from firewalk studios, eight years in development, launched on ps5 and pc on 23 august 2024. it sold around 25,000...
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2024-09-03
Netladio (ねとらじ) (2001 - 2024)
new year's eve 2001 is the birthday, when one japanese hobbyist put up a streaming relay called rajichannel. the users suggested a better name and in may 2002...
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2024-09-01
Fig (2020 - 2024)
fig was the ide-style autocomplete for the terminal, founded 2020 at y combinator by brendan falk and team. the pitch was vscode-grade popups for command-line...
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2024-09-01
Mildom (2019 - 2024)
douyu japan launched mildom in september 2019 and paid people an hourly rate to stream on it, which no japanese platform had tried at that scale. the money...
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2024-08-31
Visual Studio for Mac (2017 - 2024)
visual studio for mac was microsoft's attempt at running its flagship ide brand on macos, built on top of the xamarin studio lineage that started life as...
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2024-08-31
Microsoft Lobe (2015 - 2024)
lobe was a san francisco startup founded in 2015 by mike matas and adam menges, with markus beissinger on the ml side. it built a free desktop app that let you...
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2024-08-30
AnandTech (1997 - 2024)
the website you opened when you wanted to know whether a new cpu was actually faster or just had a higher clock. anand lal shimpi founded it in april 1997 at...
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2024-08-30
Mibbit (2007 - 2024)
mibbit was a browser irc client that gave you a real channel session over a websocket gateway without installing a desktop program. jimmy moore launched it...
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2024-08-29
Fmovies (2016 - 2024)
fmovies ran out of hanoi from 2016 to august 2024 and became the biggest movie piracy operation on the internet. 374 million monthly visits at peak, 11th most...
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2024-08-27
AniWave (9anime) (2016 - 2024)
aniwave was the last name of the site most anime fans first knew as 9anime. it ran from 2016 to august 2024, rebranded in early 2023 after ACE served a DMCA...
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2024-08-27
Forest Page (2003 - 2024)
in 2015 the site was serving 1.8 billion page views a month. nine in ten of the accounts belonged to girls in middle school or high school writing fan fiction...
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2024-08-26
Finale (1988 - 2024)
finale was the music notation program phil farrand wrote for coda music software in 1988, the first tool that let you play a midi keyboard and watch the notes...
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2024-08-23
buildspace (2019 - 2024)
farza majeed posted at 17:11 utc on 23 august 2024 that buildspace was closing that day, and gave a reason almost no founder gives. the money was there and the...
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2024-08-20
Mail.ru Agent (2003 - 2024)
mail.ru agent was the messenger for the russian internet of the 2000s. it launched in may 2003 as an email notifier and grew into a full im client with voice,...
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2024-08-20
Fitbit Versa (2018 - 2024)
the fitbit versa was fitbit's mainstream smartwatch, launched 16 april 2018 at $199.95 as the successor to the fitbit ionic. six generations followed over four...
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2024-08-20
Fitbit Sense (2020 - 2024)
the fitbit sense was fitbit's flagship health smartwatch, launched 25 september 2020 at $329.95 as a sibling to the versa but with the medical-adjacent sensor...
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2024-08-15
Lego Life (2017 - 2024)
lego built a social network for children and made it safe by taking the words out. you posted a photo of something you had built and you answered other people...
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2024-08-14
CrowdTangle (2011 - 2024)
crowdtangle started in 2011 as a small dashboard built by brandon silverman and matt garmur to help online activists, then pivoted into a publisher tool that...
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2024-08-14
Channel3Now (2023 - 2024)
channel3now dressed itself as an american local television station and was run out of lahore. on 29 july 2024 it published a made up name for the seventeen...
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2024-08-09
Skiff (2020 - 2024)
skiff was the end-to-end encrypted email and docs startup two stanford students built in 2020 and launched publicly in november 2021. the pitch was a...
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2024-08-08
Cartoonnetwork.com (1998 - 2024)
cartoonnetwork.com launched on july 27 1998 from the same atlanta team running cartoon network. for a quarter century it was the flash-and-shockwave games...
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2024-08-07
Mighty Doom (2023 - 2024)
on 7 may 2024 microsoft closed four game studios in one morning, and the smallest of them was a mobile shop in halifax called alpha dog games. the shutdown...
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2024-08-07
Ready at Dawn (2003 - 2024)
meta closed ready at dawn on 7 august 2024, four years after buying it and one year after switching off echo vr. long before any of that, the studio spent a...
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2024-08-06
Chromecast (2013 - 2024)
a thirty-five dollar plastic dongle that plugged into the back of your television and let your phone throw video onto the big screen. google shipped it in 2013...
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2024-08-01
Fitocracy (2011 - 2024)
fitocracy was a fitness social network founded in february 2011 by dick talens and brian wang. it gave you points for every workout and levels for every...
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2024-08-01
Coinbase NFT (2022 - 2024)
coinbase nft was coinbase's attempt at an OpenSea competitor for its already-signed-up user base. it launched to public beta in may 2022 with a waitlist of...
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2024-08-01
eBags (1998 - 2024)
ebags was the online luggage store americans went to for two decades. samsonite bought it in 2017, spent a few years turning off every brand that was not its...
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2024-08-01
ROMhacking.net (2005 - 2024)
nightcrawler started official work in august 2005, months after the two archives the scene depended on had both gone dark. what he built lasted nineteen years...
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2024-07-31
Newton Mail (2013 - 2024)
the paid consumer email app for people who wanted read receipts and snooze functions on every platform they touched. cloudmagic launched the original in 2013...
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2024-07-31
Magia Record (2017 - 2024)
the mobile spinoff of puella magi madoka magica made by f4samurai and published by aniplex. the japanese mobile version launched on 22 august 2017 and ran for...
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2024-07-31
WorldCosplay (2011 - 2024)
seven hundred and twenty thousand accounts and six and a half million photographs, in twelve languages, on a site run out of tokyo for a hobby that had stopped...
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2024-07-29
Xbox 360 Marketplace (2005 - 2024)
xbox 360 marketplace was microsoft's on-console store, launched with the 360 itself on 22 november 2005 with a starting catalog of 400 items. it hosted xbox...
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2024-07-25
Cloud9 IDE (2010 - 2024)
cloud9 was a browser-based development environment built in amsterdam by rik arends and ruben daniels around 2010. the pitch was a real ide that ran in chrome...
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2024-07-24
Star+ (2021 - 2024)
disney had two things in latin america that would not fit inside a family-branded app, live espn and the fx library. from 31 august 2021 the answer was a...
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2024-07-23
Feedbooks (2007 - 2024)
a paris commercial court signed feedbooks over to a quebec distributor for 230,000 euros on 29 august 2019, after the company had spent fourteen months in...
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2024-07-23
PixelMax (2018 - 2024)
manchester, 23 july 2024, a creditors' voluntary liquidation for imagin3d ltd, trading as pixelmax. it had taken two million pounds from praetura in march 2021...
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2024-07-23
Mutation Events (2000 - 2024)
november 2000 is when the w3c made mutation events a recommendation, and the design was understood as a mistake within a few years of shipping. the events...
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2024-07-20
Classcraft (2013 - 2024)
a physics teacher in sherbrooke, quebec built it for his own classroom in 2013. shawn young gave every student a character with a health bar, and a team that...
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2024-07-18
dbna (1997 - 2024)
du bist nicht allein. a german site for gay and bisexual teenagers ran under that sentence from 1997 until july 2024. it began as a forum and ended as a...
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2024-07-17
KnownOrigin (2018 - 2024)
knownorigin was the manchester nft marketplace that ebay bought in june 2022 and then quietly killed two years later. it launched out of a basement in 2018...
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2024-07-16
Byju's (2011 - 2024)
byju's was india's largest edtech company, founded in 2011 by byju raveendran and divya gokulnath around raveendran's math and physics test-prep videos. the...
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2024-07-13
Internet Theatre Database (1999 - 2024)
keith scollick put it online in may 1999 and volunteers filled it in for twenty-five years. it was modeled on imdb and pointed at the stage, indexing the west...
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2024-07-10
Crackle (2007 - 2024)
crackle was the avod that existed before avod was a category. sony's free ad-supported library, born from grouper networks in 2006, rebranded crackle in july...
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2024-07-10
Google Domains (2014 - 2024)
google domains was google's domain registrar, launched as an invite-only private beta in june 2014 and a public beta in january 2015. it offered the registrar...
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2024-07-10
CapFriendly (2015 - 2024)
capfriendly was the direct successor to [[capgeek]] and became the reference nhl contract database for the second half of the 2010s and the first half of the...
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2024-07-10
Copilot GPT Builder (2024 - 2024)
four months is the whole of it. microsoft put a build-your-own bot tool inside the twenty dollar copilot pro subscription in march 2024, and by june it was...
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2024-07-08
Girls in Tech (2007 - 2024)
seventeen years, more than fifty chapters on six continents, a quarter of a million people reached. then an email to 130,000 members in july 2024 saying the...
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2024-07-03
Koo (2020 - 2024)
koo was an indian twitter alternative built around hindi and other indian languages. it launched in march 2020 from bengaluru. the founders aprameya...
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2024-07-02
Shoptime (1995 - 2024)
brazil got its first television channel that existed purely to sell you things in 1995, and the name on it was shoptime. americanas bought the business in...
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2024-07-01
Redbox (2002 - 2024)
the last big physical way to rent a movie in america. a bright red kiosk outside the grocery store where a dvd cost a dollar or two a night, run by a machine,...
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2024-07-01
Submarino (1999 - 2024)
submarino started in 1999 on top of booknet, an online bookstore jack london had opened in brazil in 1995, and it became the first brazilian e-commerce name...
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2024-07-01
corega (1996 - 2024)
allied telesis put a consumer arm on the shelf in august 1996 to sell hubs and routers into japanese homes, and for two decades the corega box was the default...
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2024-07-01
A.frame (2020 - 2024)
the academy of motion picture arts and sciences ran a digital magazine for four years with one full-time employee and a freelance budget, which is about what a...
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2024-07-01
KazTube (2009 - 2024)
kazakhstan's presidential broadcasting corporation launched a national video portal in february 2009, to host domestic film and to put the kazakh language on...
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2024-06-30
CentOS Linux (2004 - 2024)
centos was red hat enterprise linux with the red hat taken out. same published source, same behavior, no support contract and no invoice. for fifteen years it...
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2024-06-30
Medical Heritage Library (2010 - 2024)
the medical heritage library was a group of medical libraries that scanned their own shelves and put the results on the internet archive with nothing in front...
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2024-06-30
abload.de (2006 - 2024)
every image link on a german hardware forum between 2006 and 2024 had a decent chance of pointing here. a small team that started the site in their school and...
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2024-06-30
picdig (2021 - 2024)
a small company in koga, ibaraki opened picdig on 2 august 2021: portfolio hosting for illustrators and manga artists where you applied and were approved...
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2024-06-30
Scientific Linux (2004 - 2024)
fermilab needed red hat enterprise linux without the red hat invoice, on thousands of machines, for experiments that outlive any support contract. so the lab...
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2024-06-27
ArcheAge (Western) (2014 - 2024)
archeage was jake song's korean sandpark mmo, a sandbox-themepark hybrid released in korea in january 2013 and brought west by trion worlds in september 2014....
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2024-06-26
ICQ (1996 - 2024)
the original consumer instant messenger. four israeli developers in tel aviv built it in 1996. its uh-oh sound was the first text notification before texts...
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2024-06-26
Caffeine (2018 - 2024)
caffeine launched in 2018 as the would-be twitch competitor with the prettier interface and the better latency, founded by two ex-apple-tv designers and...
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2024-06-26
プリ画像 (Puri Gazou) (2007 - 2024)
gmo media switched it off at noon on 26 june 2024, japan time, and took the chat service and the teen news site down in the same minute. prcm.jp had spent...
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2024-06-26
ICQmail (1999 - 2024)
for fourteen years this was a webmail you could not join. aol closed the signup door when it sold icq in 2010, and the accounts that already existed kept...
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2024-06-26
Longform (2010 - 2024)
max linsky and aaron lammer started a nonfiction reading list in brooklyn in april 2010 and a podcast about the craft two years after that. the reading list...
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2024-06-25
Coco.gg (2003 - 2024)
isaac steidl put coco.fr up in 2003 and it kept the same shape for twenty-one years: rooms sorted by french department, and no account of any kind to make...
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2024-06-25
Alexa Together (2021 - 2024)
nineteen dollars and ninety-nine cents a month bought you the knowledge that your mother had spoken to a speaker this morning. amazon sold that as caregiving...
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2024-06-24
Google Podcasts (2018 - 2024)
google podcasts was the simplest podcast app google had ever shipped. it played podcasts. that was it. then youtube music wanted the podcast slot in the dock...
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2024-06-20
Google One VPN (2020 - 2024)
google one vpn was announced in october 2020 as a perk of the $9.99 google one 2tb tier and above, launched initially in the us. it expanded to about 22...
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2024-06-17
Apple Pay Later (2023 - 2024)
apple pay later was apple's first attempt to compete with affirm and klarna directly. the service was announced at wwdc 2022, opened as a US-only preview in...
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2024-06-14
Zilog Z80 (1976 - 2024)
federico faggin designed the intel 4004 and the 8080, walked out of intel at the end of 1974, and built a better 8080 with masatoshi shima on exxon money. the...
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2024-06-14
OtterTune (2020 - 2024)
andy pavlo spent close to a decade on the idea that a database could tune itself, first as a research system at carnegie mellon and then as a company selling...
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2024-06-12
Mozilla Location Service (2013 - 2024)
mozilla ran a free geolocation database built out of wifi and cell-tower sightings that firefox users donated by walking around with their phones. by 2019 it...
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2024-06-04
Adobe Photoshop Mix (2014 - 2024)
adobe shipped photoshop mix in june 2014 as part of the post-touch split, a free ipad app for cutting layers out of one photo and dropping them into another....
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2024-06-04
Adobe Photoshop Camera (2019 - 2024)
adobe announced photoshop camera at MAX 2019 as a free AI camera app powered by adobe sensei. it shipped as a public preview in late 2019, hit general...
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2024-06-04
Adobe Photoshop Fix (2015 - 2024)
photoshop fix was the retouching corner of the post-touch app split. adobe shipped it for iOS in october 2015 with face-aware liquify, healing brushes,...
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2024-06-01
Blingee (2006 - 2024)
blingee was a browser tool for adding animated glitter and stamps to photos. launched 2006 as part of the bauer teen network. peaked in the myspace decoration...
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2024-06-01
Piranha Bytes (1997 - 2024)
piranha bytes made the same game for twenty three years, in bochum and then essen, with roughly the same small team the whole way through. gothic in 2001 was...
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2024-06-01
Qubit.tv (2011 - 2024)
buenos aires had a subscription movie service in 2011, the same year netflix crossed into latin america, and qubit.tv spent the next thirteen years carrying...
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2024-06-01
Swing Entertainment (2018 - 2024)
a television show made the band and a company was incorporated to hold it. mnet's produce 101 season 2 ended in june 2017 with eleven winners picked by viewer...
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2024-05-31
Mozilla Hubs (2018 - 2024)
mozilla's browser-based vr social platform. you opened a link in firefox or chrome and stepped into a 3d room without a headset required. it launched april 26...
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2024-05-31
Post News (2022 - 2024)
noam bardin tried to build a quieter twitter for journalists and readers, with per-article tipping instead of subscriptions. 1.4 million signups, eighteen...
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2024-05-31
Spreadsheet.com (2017 - 2024)
mitch kapor, who wrote lotus 1-2-3, was an angel in this one. 170,000 users and more than a thousand paying organizations still were not enough, and matt...
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2024-05-27
mail2web.com (1997 - 2024)
toronto, 1997. softcom put up a page where you typed an email address and a password and read your own mail, with no account to create and nothing to install,...
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2024-05-21
London Studio (2002 - 2024)
sony closed it on 21 may 2024, twenty two years after building it out of two teams it already owned. london studio's job for most of that time was selling the...
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2024-05-20
LINE Play (2012 - 2024)
line play gave you a character and a room and then sent you to a different app to talk. nhn japan launched it in november 2012 on the back of the messenger...
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2024-05-18
The Wagadu Chronicles (2023 - 2024)
twin drums' afrofantasy mmorpg, an early-access d&d-5e-inspired mmo out of berlin funded on kickstarter and by riot forge. shipped into steam early access on 4...
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2024-05-15
Rooster Teeth (2003 - 2024)
rooster teeth started on april 1 2003 in austin texas as a six person team making red vs blue, a comedy series shot inside halo with the player characters as...
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2024-05-15
Karhoo (2014 - 2024)
november 2016 is when karhoo died the first time, eight days into the month, having spent a reported quarter of a billion dollars while charging most of its...
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2024-05-15
Gorillas (2020 - 2024)
nine months from the first delivery in prenzlauer berg to a unicorn valuation, the fastest in germany. kağan sümer's gorillas put groceries on a berlin...
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2024-05-03
Subscene (2001 - 2024)
subscene was a search box on top of a pile of text files. it never hosted a single film. people who had already found the film came here for the words...
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2024-05-01
Reader's Digest UK (1938 - 2024)
reader's digest uk was the british edition of the american pocket-format monthly, launched in 1938 and pitched at a general home-reader audience for eighty-six...
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2024-05-01
Xamarin (2011 - 2024)
miguel de icaza and nat friedman had already built the same thing twice when attachmate bought novell in 2011 and cut the mono team loose, so on 16 may 2011...
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2024-05-01
Kaspien (1972 - 2024)
albany, new york, december 1972: robert higgins starts a record business that becomes a mall empire. forty-eight years later the stores are gone, the company...
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2024-04-30
PangYa (2004 - 2024)
pangya was korean free-to-play golf with anime characters, a cash shop full of outfits, and a three click swing that said the word pangya at you when you...
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2024-04-30
BritBox UK (2019 - 2024)
britain is the one market where britbox no longer exists, which is the opposite of what it was built for. the bbc and itv put it up in november 2019 so that...
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2024-04-30
FreshEYE (1998 - 2024)
the farewell page is still sitting at fresheye.com and it thanks users for twenty six years. toshiba started the search engine on 30 june 1998 with a pitch...
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2024-04-29
Nier Re[in]carnation (2021 - 2024)
square enix and applibot's mobile gacha set in the world of nier and nier: automata. the japanese version launched on 18 february 2021 and the western...
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2024-04-26
Neofetch (2015 - 2024)
a bash script that did one thing: print an ascii logo of your linux distribution next to a list of what your computer was running. it existed so you could post...
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2024-04-26
Goldstar (2002 - 2024)
on 14 february 2002 three e-commerce people in pasadena started selling cheap seats to shows that were not selling out, on the arithmetic that an empty theater...
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2024-04-25
Clash Mini (2021 - 2024)
eleven countries ever got to play this one. supercell put clash mini into beta in november 2021 as a board game version of its own characters, kept it there...
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2024-04-24
Atlas VPN (2019 - 2024)
nord security announced the deal on 15 october 2021 and promised atlas vpn would keep running independently. it did, for two and a half years, until somebody...
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2024-04-22
Rooster Teeth Podcast (2008 - 2024)
episode 1 went out on 9 december 2008 under the name drunk tank, four guys from an austin game studio talking for an hour with the microphones already paid...
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2024-04-15
Hobbes OS/2 Archive (1990 - 2024)
hobbes outlived the operating system it served by about two decades. it started in 1990 in a graduate computer lab at new mexico state university and turned...
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2024-04-13
Visa Electron (1985 - 2024)
visa spent thirty nine years selling a debit card that had to ask permission before it would move any money. the number was printed rather than embossed and...
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2024-04-09
ChatGPT Plugins (beta) (2023 - 2024)
eleven outside companies and two of openai's own shipped the first plugins in march 2023, and for a year the way into chatgpt was a json file sitting at a...
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2024-04-08
Nest Secure (2017 - 2024)
nest secure was the fadell-era nest team's home-security entry. the kit paired a nest guard hub with nest detect door and motion sensors. google stopped...
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2024-04-08
DropCam (2009 - 2024)
a wifi camera that lived inside someone else's server farm and died when the server farm decided it had moved on. dropcam shipped in 2009, sold to nest in 2014...
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2024-04-08
Nintendo Network (2012 - 2024)
nintendo network was the account system and online service sitting under the 3ds and the wii u, live from january 2012. it ran the eshop and the online...
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2024-04-08
Nintendo Badge Arcade (2014 - 2024)
nintendo badge arcade was a crane machine bolted onto the 3ds home menu. it opened in japan on 17 december 2014 and reached the west in november 2015, handing...
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2024-04-08
StreetPass Mii Plaza (2011 - 2024)
every nintendo 3ds shipped with it and most owners opened it more often than anything they paid for. it collected the miis of strangers you had physically...
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2024-04-08
Kim Kardashian: Hollywood (2014 - 2024)
a game about becoming famous, sold by somebody famous. you started on the e-list and worked up by booking modeling jobs and going on dates that were also...
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2024-04-08
Super Mario Maker (2015 - 2024)
nintendo shipped the level editor it had built for its own designers and let strangers upload seven million courses to a shared server. uploads were frozen in...
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2024-04-05
Warhaven (2023 - 2024)
nexon's free-to-play medieval hero shooter, a 32-player sword-based pvp game built at nexon korea. launched into steam early access on 20 september 2023 with a...
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2024-04-02
Funimation (1994 - 2024)
funimation started on may 9 1994 in decatur texas. gen fukunaga and his wife cindy founded the company with funding from his uncle in tokyo, the goal was the...
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2024-04-01
Facebook News (2019 - 2024)
facebook news was meta's attempt to be a place people read the day's news on purpose, a dedicated tab launched in 2019 with human editors up top and licensing...
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2024-04-01
The Siberian Times (2012 - 2024)
for twelve years almost every strange story you read about siberia came from one website. thawed worms waking up after 40,000 years, craters opening in the...
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2024-04-01
BNN Breaking (2022 - 2024)
gurbaksh chahal registered a news operation in hong kong in 2022 and pointed language models at other people's reporting. hundreds of stories a day went out...
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2024-04-01
Microspot (1980 - 2024)
a swiss electronics chain founded in 1980 was bought by coop in 1996 and had its shops folded into interdiscount three years later, which should have been the...
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2024-04-01
DoggCatcher (2008 - 2024)
google play stopped listing it in april 2024, five and a half years after the final update shipped. the website had already lapsed the autumn before that. the...
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2024-03-31
RadioPublic (2016 - 2024)
prx (the boston public-radio distributor behind this american life and the moth) formed radiopublic as a public benefit corporation in may 2016 and launched...
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2024-03-31
Reader's Digest Canada (1947 - 2024)
reader's digest canada was the canadian arm of the pocket-format monthly, running for 76 years across two editions. the french sélection launched in 1947, the...
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2024-03-31
The Crew (2014 - 2024)
the crew was an always online racing game across a shrunk united states, and it sold to twelve million players. on 31 march 2024 ubisoft turned off the servers...
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2024-03-31
OKMusic (2011 - 2024)
japan music network ran both barks and okmusic, and in february 2024 it decided to keep one of them. the announcement is three timestamps and a thank-you with...
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2024-03-30
Chimeraland (2022 - 2024)
tencent's level infinite published chimeraland globally on 15 july 2022, an open-world survival mmo of eastern mythology by pixel soft. the game launched on...
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2024-03-30
Waitr (2013 - 2024)
lake charles, louisiana is not where food delivery apps come from, and that was the entire pitch. waitr started there in 2013 by signing up restaurants in...
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2024-03-29
BlueJeans by Verizon (2009 - 2024)
bluejeans network was founded in 2009 by krish ramakrishnan and alagu periyannan as a cloud video bridge that could connect different conference room hardware...
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2024-03-28
Pokémon TV (2010 - 2024)
467,000 people were still opening it in December 2023. the free app where you could watch the pokémon anime without an account or a subscription, on the...
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2024-03-25
Taringa! (2004 - 2024)
taringa launched on june 8 2004 in buenos aires when fernando sanz was eighteen. he sold ninety percent for five thousand dollars in 2006 to alberto nakayama...
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2024-03-24
Keen (2020 - 2024)
google's internal incubator built a pinterest with a machine learning engine underneath it. you made a board about a subject you cared about and saved links...
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2024-03-23
Mint (2007 - 2024)
the free budgeting app that aggregated every us bank account and credit card into a single dashboard. aaron patzer launched it at techcrunch40 in 2007 and won...
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2024-03-21
Rocket Arena (2020 - 2024)
on 18 november 2023 rocket arena vanished from every digital store with no announcement attached, and the shutdown notice arrived four weeks after that. ea had...
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2024-03-15
Flurry (2005 - 2024)
a hundred and fifty billion app sessions a month moved through a company almost nobody outside the trade could name. flurry sold mobile software before it sold...
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2024-03-15
Anon.cafe (2019 - 2024)
the administrator gave nine weeks of notice, said plainly that nobody had pressured them and that the decision was entirely their own, and closed anon.cafe at...
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2024-03-12
Vudu (2004 - 2024)
vudu started in 2004 in santa clara as a digital-media-player startup with a black settop box that shipped in 2007. walmart acquired the company on february 22...
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2024-03-12
Today's Plan (2014 - 2024)
canberra built a training platform that worldtour teams trusted with their riders, and it still did not reach ten years old. today's plan read your ride data...
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2024-03-12
Blueboard (2014 - 2024)
on 12 march 2024 around five hundred companies opened an email telling them their employee rewards platform had ceased operations, effective immediately....
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2024-03-04
yuzu (2018 - 2024)
yuzu was an open source nintendo switch emulator, released in january 2018 by the people who had already written citra for the 3ds. it ran current games on a...
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2024-03-04
Citra (2014 - 2024)
ten years of open source work on making a nintendo 3ds run on hardware it was never written for. citra started in april 2014, grew into the reference 3ds...
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2024-03-03
Télam (1945 - 2024)
javier milei opened the 2024 legislative session on 1 march by announcing he was closing a seventy-eight-year-old news agency, which he described as...
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2024-03-01
İTÜ Sözlük (2004 - 2024)
itü sözlük opened on 1 march 2004 as a collaborative dictionary for istanbul technical university, reachable only from inside the campuses for its first month,...
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2024-03-01
AWS Snowmobile (2016 - 2024)
amazon announced it in november 2016 by driving a shipping container onto the re:invent stage, and it was exactly what it looked like: a semi trailer full of...
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2024-03-01
BlueGriffon (2008 - 2024)
bluegriffon was daniel glazman's third attempt at the same idea: a wysiwyg web page editor built on mozilla's rendering engine, written from scratch after he...
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2024-03-01
Exalead (2000 - 2024)
francois bourdoncle helped build the part of altavista that let you narrow a query, then spent the next decade building a french search engine that did the...
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2024-03-01
Whim (2016 - 2024)
helsinki got the first one of these in late 2016, a single app with a monthly fee that covered the tram and a taxi when you needed one, sold on the promise...
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2024-03-01
Drizly (2012 - 2024)
1.1 billion dollars in uber stock and cash, february 2021, for an app that had a liquor store bring the beer and scan your id at the door. three years inside...
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2024-03-01
Google Business Profile Websites (2017 - 2024)
sixty percent of small businesses did not have a website at all. that was the number google used in june 2017 when it switched on a free one page site for...
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2024-03-01
Incognito Market (2020 - 2024)
six hundred and forty thousand cryptocurrency transactions ran through incognito between october 2020 and march 2024, and the ending was an inside job rather...
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2024-02-29
TinyLetter (2010 - 2024)
tinyletter was a one-person newsletter app launched in november 2010 by philip kaplan (pud, of fuckedcompany.com). it did one thing: send plain emails to your...
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2024-02-29
Lang-8 (2006 - 2024)
lang-8 ran on reciprocity. you posted a paragraph in a language you were learning and a native speaker struck through your phrasing and wrote theirs beside it....
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2024-02-29
Manyland (2013 - 2024)
a leap day ending, 29 february 2024, picked because there happened to be one to pick. philipp lenssen and scott lowe kept a browser universe running for ten...
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2024-02-29
Anyland (2016 - 2024)
over ten thousand areas and more than a quarter of a million hand-made objects, carried by two people on patron money until the server invoices stopped fitting...
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2024-02-29
Amazon Honeycode (2020 - 2024)
forty-four months in beta and not one day of general availability. aws launched honeycode in june 2020 as a spreadsheet you could turn into a real mobile and...
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2024-02-27
Twitch Korea (2015 - 2024)
twitch put a korean server up in 2015 and spent nine years taking the market away from afreecatv, reaching about 52 percent of korean livestream viewing by...
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2024-02-22
Vice.com (2011 - 2024)
vice.com was the flagship digital publication of vice media group, consolidated in 2011 out of the older viceland.com and vbs.tv domains. through the 2010s it...
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2024-02-16
gotm.io (2019 - 2024)
a small swedish studio built the one thing the godot engine did not have: somewhere to put a web build where a stranger could click a link and be playing a...
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2024-02-15
Microsoft Stream (Classic) (2017 - 2024)
microsoft stream launched on june 20 2017 as a corporate video-sharing service for office 365 tenants. it replaced office 365 video, which itself had only...
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2024-02-15
Ntreev Soft (2003 - 2024)
ntreev soft was a korean studio with two games that mattered and twenty years of trying to find a third. it made trickster online in 2003 and pangya in 2004,...
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2024-02-09
HexChat (2010 - 2024)
hexchat started in 2010 as a windows patch set for xchat and took its own name in july 2012. for the decade after that it was the irc client most linux...
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2024-02-08
画吧 (Huabar) (2013 - 2024)
the founder wrote the goodbye at dawn on 13 january 2024. he said he had gathered up dozens of screenshots covering every home page redesign since 2013, and...
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2024-02-05
Weaveworks (2014 - 2024)
5 february 2024, a linkedin post from alexis richardson: weaveworks will be closing its doors and shutting down commercial operations. the company had raised...
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2024-02-04
OpenBitTorrent (2009 - 2024)
for fifteen years the largest public bittorrent tracker in the world held no files and no accounts, just a hostname you pasted into a torrent so that strangers...
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2024-02-02
Google Cache (1997 - 2024)
google cache shipped with the search engine itself in 1997. every result on the search page had a cached link beside it that took you to a stored copy of that...
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2024-02-01
Designer News (2012 - 2024)
two founders of a failing version-control startup built a link aggregator for designers on the side, and the side project outlasted the company by nine years....
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2024-02-01
queer.af (2018 - 2024)
in february 2024 a ministry in kabul suspended a domain name, and a small social server in another hemisphere stopped existing. queer.af had run for five and a...
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2024-01-31
The Messenger (2023 - 2024)
the messenger launched on may 15 2023 with $50 million in seed and a pitch for nonpartisan general-interest news at hill-of-the-2010s scale. jimmy finkelstein...
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2024-01-31
Resso (2020 - 2024)
resso was bytedance's music streaming app for india, with brazil and indonesia following at launch. it went live on 4 march 2020 with major-label catalog...
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2024-01-31
chess24 (2014 - 2024)
chess24 arrived in 2014 into a market that already had a free giant and a commercial giant, and won a decade of relevance by not competing on the board at all....
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2024-01-31
Gran Turismo Sport (2017 - 2024)
thirteen million copies, and a deal with the fia, the body that sanctions formula one and had never put its name on a video game before. the catch was in the...
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2024-01-31
中国军视网 (China Military TV Network) (2014 - 2024)
on 29 january 2024 a notice went up saying the site would stop two days later, and on the 31st it did. 中国军视网 had been online since 29 december 2014, run by the...
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2024-01-31
CNN Philippines (2015 - 2024)
two days. that is the gap between nine media corporation announcing the closure on 29 january 2024 and cnn philippines going off air on the 31st. the channel...
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2024-01-31
World of Demons (2021 - 2024)
on 5 january 2024 platinumgames posted that service was ending, and gave no reason at all. the game came off apple arcade on the 18th and the copies already...
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2024-01-24
Tumblr Live (2022 - 2024)
tumblr live was never really tumblr. it was a livestream tab grafted onto a 2008-coded blogging site by an owner trying to keep the lights on. the streams came...
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2024-01-22
Propnight (2021 - 2024)
fntastic announced its own closure on 11 december 2023 and said in the same notice that the servers for its two games would keep running. ten days later...
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2024-01-22
Riot Forge (2019 - 2024)
530 jobs went at riot games on 22 january 2024, and riot forge went with them. the label existed to pay outside studios to build single-player games in the...
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2024-01-22
Vroom (2013 - 2024)
ally financial suspended the credit line that paid for vroom's inventory in january 2024, and the retail side was wound down inside a week. the company had...
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2024-01-17
Google Play Movies & TV (2011 - 2024)
google play movies and tv was the film rental and purchase store google shipped on android for over a decade. it launched as google movies in may 2011, picked...
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2024-01-15
SINoALICE (2017 - 2024)
snow white and cinderella and alice live in a place called the library, and they murder each other to gather enough life essence to bring their authors back....
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2024-01-12
Artifact (2023 - 2024)
artifact was a news reader built by instagram's founders kevin systrom and mike krieger, launched in early 2023 with machine-learning recommendations that the...
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2024-01-11
Uriminzokkiri (2003 - 2024)
uriminzokkiri was north korea's first website, up in 2003 on a shanghai server, pushing state media at south korean readers in five languages while south korea...
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2024-01-09
Beeper Mini (2023 - 2024)
beeper mini reverse-engineered the imessage protocol and put blue bubbles on android. it launched on december 5 2023, apple blocked it three days later, beeper...
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2024-01-08
CGSociety (2001 - 2024)
on 9 december 2001 leonard teo started a forum for the company he worked for. the company fell apart six months later and he kept the forum, which is how...
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2024-01-05
Smeet (2007 - 2024)
at eleven at night on 5 january 2024, after an in-world goodbye party, a berlin company switched off the 3d chat world it had been running for sixteen years....
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2024-01-04
GPT-3 (davinci era) (2020 - 2024)
OpenAI's 2020 model that taught everyone what 'language model' actually meant. davinci-002 and 003 had a roughness GPT-4 never quite had. you could feel them...
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2024-01-03
Coqui (2021 - 2024)
berlin, march 2021: four engineers whose team mozilla had just closed down started a company to carry on the same work in the open. coqui spent three years...
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2024-01-01
Gigwise (2001 - 2024)
gigwise started in liverpool in 2001 as a page of gig listings and turned into one of the most read music sites in britain, ahead of nme online by 2010, with...
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2024-01-01
Pathfinder.gr (1998 - 2024)
the first greek web portal, online from october 1998, built by phaistos networks out of mires in crete. it had the full kit of the period, its own search...
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2024-01-01
LEGO Vidiyo (2021 - 2024)
lego and universal music shipped a toy on 1 march 2021 whose entire point was a phone app. you built a small stage, held your camera over plastic tiles called...
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2024-01-01
8-Track Heaven (1995 - 2024)
8-track heaven went up on 20 july 1995 as a shrine to a car stereo format that was already two decades dead, and it stayed up for twenty nine years, long...
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2024-01-01
Enciclopedia Libre Universal en Español (2002 - 2024)
on 26 february 2002 the contributors to the spanish wikipedia walked out and took the articles with them, because they believed advertising was coming and the...
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2024-01-01
Ryze (2001 - 2024)
adrian scott finished a mathematics phd at twenty and had money from being an early investor in napster, and in 2001 he spent some of it on a website where...
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2024-01-01
TensorBoard.dev (2019 - 2024)
december 2019, google launched a free place to park your tensorboard logs so you could send somebody a link instead of a screenshot. researchers with no budget...
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2024-01-01
Dalilmasr (2010 - 2024)
an egyptian domain registered on 4 february 2010, after two earlier attempts at the same idea had been abandoned on it. dalil masr listed egyptian businesses...
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2024-01-01
The Big Cartoon DataBase (1997 - 2024)
dave koch started it on his own computer in 1997 as a list of disney features. by 2009 it held a hundred thousand cartoons and librarians were citing it as the...
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2024-01-01
Gmail Basic HTML (2005 - 2024)
in september 2023 a notice went out from google: the gmail basic html view for desktop web and mobile web would be disabled starting early january 2024. it was...
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2024-01-01
BlenderBot 3 (2022 - 2024)
on 5 august 2022 meta put a 175 billion parameter chatbot on the open web and asked the public to grade its answers. the press found the antisemitism and the...
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2023-12-31
Amazon Cloud Drive (2011 - 2023)
amazon cloud drive launched in march 2011 as amazon's bet that the photo and document storage market would be a separate consumer product rather than a...
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2023-12-31
Wickr (2012 - 2023)
wickr was the snowden-era encrypted messenger for the people who wanted ephemeral self-destructing messages without going all the way to signal. it launched in...
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2023-12-31
Peach (2016 - 2023)
peach was the january 2016 app. dom hofmann shipped it fresh off vine's success, showed it off at ces, watched it climb to number 10 in the ios networking...
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2023-12-31
aRGENTeaM (2002 - 2023)
around 100,000 spanish subtitle files came out of one argentine forum between 2002 and 2023, made by more than 500 volunteers who were never paid for any of...
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2023-12-31
DK Find Out! (2015 - 2023)
on the last day of 2023 dorling kindersley switched off dkfindout.com, the free children's reference site it had been running since march 2015. it was the...
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2023-12-25
OneHallyu (2013 - 2023)
8.2 million posts sat in the music section alone on the day the admins locked it. onehallyu ran from 2013 to christmas day 2023 as the largest english-language...
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2023-12-22
Zulily (2010 - 2023)
zulily sold clothes for moms and kids through daily flash sales, deals that showed up in an early-morning email and were gone by the next day. it launched in...
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2023-12-22
Versus Evil (2013 - 2023)
22 december 2023, three days before christmas, tinybuild laid off all thirteen people at versus evil and closed it. the baltimore label had spent ten years...
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2023-12-21
Windows Mixed Reality (2017 - 2023)
windows mixed reality was microsoft's bet that VR would land on the desktop through a fleet of cheap partner headsets running on the same windows runtime as...
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2023-12-18
Wikimedia RU (2008 - 2023)
vladimir medeyko co-founded wikimedia ru in 2008 and ran it for most of its fifteen years. in june 2023 he launched ruwiki, a fork of the russian wikipedia...
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2023-12-18
QuestionCopyright.org (2007 - 2023)
karl fogel incorporated a nonprofit in california in february 2007 to argue that copyright restriction hurts artists more than it protects them, then spent...
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2023-12-15
LARM.fm (2010 - 2023)
since 1987 danish law has sent a copy of every radio and television broadcast to the royal library. larm.fm was the reading room built on top of that pile, a...
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2023-12-15
Noteable (2020 - 2023)
a company that had raised twenty five million dollars to host data notebooks ran out of runway in late 2023 and posted the notice to its own community forum,...
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2023-12-15
GitHub Copilot Labs (2021 - 2023)
github ended four technical previews on the same day, 15 december 2023, and copilot labs was one of them. it had been the sidebar where github tried things out...
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2023-12-13
NPR One (2014 - 2023)
nine years of public radio built as a river instead of a menu. you opened it and it started talking, newscast first, then whatever it had decided you would sit...
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2023-12-12
E3 (1995 - 2023)
for twenty-five years the video game industry did its announcing in one building in los angeles during one week in june. e3 was where sony killed the saturn...
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2023-12-11
Pegipegi (2012 - 2023)
pegipegi launched in jakarta in may 2012, selling flights and hotel rooms inside indonesia with a local media group and japanese money behind it. in 2018 it...
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2023-12-04
Bittrex (2014 - 2023)
bittrex launched in 2014 out of bellevue with three ex-amazon security engineers running the stack. its pitch was a us exchange that listed more tokens than...
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2023-12-04
Comixology (2007 - 2023)
comixology launched july 2007 as an online pull-list community for comic readers. by 2010 it had pivoted into digital comics sales with the guided view...
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2023-12-01
Jay Is Games (2003 - 2023)
jay is games was a casual-games review and curation blog founded by jay bibby on 19 april 2003. for two decades it was the hub anglo flash-game culture pointed...
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2023-12
Jumia Food (2012 - 2023)
jumia food started life as hellofood in 2012, one of rocket internet's african ventures, and took the jumia name in the 2016 rebrand. by late 2023 it was...
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2023-11-30
Flimmit (2008 - 2023)
an amendment to austria's broadcasting act took effect on 1 january 2024 and it forbade the orf from operating paid services of any kind. flimmit was a paid...
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2023-11-30
OkadaBooks (2013 - 2023)
an okada is the motorcycle taxi you take in lagos when the traffic has stopped moving, and okechukwu ofili named his publishing platform after one because...
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2023-11-30
iMacros (2001 - 2023)
press record, fill in the form once, and the browser would do it again every morning for the rest of its life. mathias roth wrote the first version in 2001 at...
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2023-11-30
A.nnotate (2008 - 2023)
a small scottish company took proof-of-concept money from the scottish government in 2006 for work on authoring structured content out of plain text, and the...
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2023-11-29
Gundam Evolution (2022 - 2023)
bandai namco online built an overwatch-shaped shooter and cast it with gundam mobile suits, six a side, free to play. it launched on pc on 21 september 2022...
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2023-11-27
Veev (2008 - 2023)
veev was an israeli-founded proptech company that pivoted to modular home construction in the mid-2010s and scaled its manufacturing out of union city,...
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2023-11-20
Coinbase Pro (2015 - 2023)
three names in eight years, and the last one ended by being absorbed. the terminal opened in january 2015 as coinbase exchange, took the name gdax in 2016,...
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2023-11-18
Nothing Chats (2023 - 2023)
the app lived one day. nothing announced it on 14 november 2023 as an imessage client for android and had a beta on google play by the 17th. it was gone on the...
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2023-11-11
AusGamers (1999 - 2023)
mammoth media started it in brisbane in 1999, back when an australian pulling a demo off an american server was committing an afternoon to it. it came through...
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2023-11-09
Amazon Style (2022 - 2023)
glendale, california got the first one in may 2022, at a mall called the americana at brand, and columbus, ohio got the second and last one that october....
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2023-11-09
The China Project (2016 - 2023)
a 480-page whistleblower complaint, filed with the justice department in october 2022 and never once made public, cost this publication its investors and its...
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2023-11-08
Omegle (2009 - 2023)
the random-stranger video chat site. you opened the URL, you got paired with another random user somewhere on the internet, you talked or you hit "next."...
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2023-11-08
Reddit Community Points (2020 - 2023)
the fortnite subreddit beat the cryptocurrency subreddit at crypto. when reddit launched community points in may 2020, r/fortnitebr had created 8,666 token...
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2023-11-07
Gas (2022 - 2023)
gas was nikita bier's second run at the same product he had already built and sold once as tbh. it launched on august 29 2022 in a handful of southern us...
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2023-11-06
WeWork (2010 - 2023)
wework was supposed to be the office of the future. it sold hot desks like a tech company sells software. by 2019 it carried a 47 billion dollar valuation. by...
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2023-11-03
Wakanim (2009 - 2023)
wakanim opened in a small city in northern france in 2009 with an unpopular proposition: pay for the episode you were already getting free from volunteers, and...
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2023-11-03
XeNTaX Game Research Forum (2003 - 2023)
90,443 registered members and 161,906 posts, nearly all of it about how to open a file that was never meant to be opened. a dutch commodore 64 demoscener...
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2023-11-02
Apple Music Voice Plan (2021 - 2023)
apple's $4.99 siri-only tier of apple music. you could ask siri for a song but you could not browse the library by hand. positioned for homepod owners who...
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2023-11-02
My Brute (La Brute) (2008 - 2023)
on 2 november 2023 motion twin switched off every web game it had, and my brute went with them. it was a flash fighting game from bordeaux that did the...
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2023-11-01
Flattr (2010 - 2023)
peter sunde left the pirate bay and built a button that did the opposite of what the pirate bay did. you put a small monthly budget into flattr, you clicked...
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2023-11-01
Pebble (social network) (2022 - 2023)
gabor cselle and sarah oh both came out of twitter and started building a replacement for it in november 2022, the month the layoffs landed. it was called t2...
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2023-10-31
Twitter Circles (2022 - 2023)
twitter circles was a close-friends feed that let you post a tweet visible only to a hand-picked list of up to 150 accounts. it rolled out globally on 30...
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2023-10-31
Olive AI (2012 - 2023)
olive ai was a US healthcare automation SaaS founded in columbus ohio in 2012 by sean lane as crosschx, a patient identity verification product. it rebranded...
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2023-10-31
Amazon Amp (2022 - 2023)
amazon shipped a clubhouse clone with a licensed music catalog and celebrity djs eighteen months after the moment it needed. the app launched in march 2022 to...
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2023-10-31
NemID (2010 - 2023)
denmark switched on a single national login on 1 july 2010 and everyone over fifteen with a cpr number got one, which made it the rare piece of software with...
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2023-10-31
Azure Kinect DK (2020 - 2023)
microsoft built kinect three times. the first two were consumer products for the xbox, and the third was a four hundred dollar usb-c box aimed at nobody but...
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2023-10-31
Web SQL Database (2009 - 2023)
one implementation was the whole problem. web sql put a real sqlite database behind a javascript call, and every browser that shipped it shipped sqlite...
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2023-10-31
Money Dashboard (2010 - 2023)
3,300 small investors put 4.6 million pounds into money dashboard in august 2019, the biggest fintech crowdfund on crowdcube that year. it was the uk's mint,...
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2023-10-23
Async Art (2020 - 2023)
async art was the san francisco nft platform built around an unusual mechanic. a piece had a master and a set of layers underneath. each layer was its own nft,...
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2023-10-19
Convoy (2015 - 2023)
convoy was seattle's digital freight brokerage founded in 2015 by dan lewis, an ex-amazon operations manager. it raised over a billion dollars across eight...
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2023-10-17
Morhipo (2011 - 2023)
morhipo was boyner holding's online store, opened on 22 march 2011 with a celebrity-heavy television campaign and grown fast enough that internet retailer...
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2023-10-12
RTÉ Aertel (1987 - 2023)
rté launched aertel on 22 june 1987 and ran it for thirty six years. the analogue signal that carried it was switched off in 2012 and the service survived...
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2023-10-10
Right Stuf (1987 - 2023)
the north american anime mail-order pioneer. founded in 1987 in grimes iowa by todd ferson and shawne kleckner, acquired by sony in august 2022, folded into...
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2023-10-10
Internet Explorer Mobile (1996 - 2023)
microsoft put a browser on windows ce in november 1996, wrote it from scratch because nothing in the desktop internet explorer would fit in the memory a...
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2023-10-10
Windows MultiPoint Server (2010 - 2023)
a school buys one tower and six monitors instead of six towers. every station hangs off a usb hub with its own keyboard, everyone logs into a separate desktop,...
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2023-10-10
Windows CE (1996 - 2023)
on 16 november 1996 microsoft put the word windows on a kernel that shared no code with windows, and then spent twenty-seven years selling it to people who...
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2023-10-09
Gimlet Media (2014 - 2023)
gimlet was the brooklyn podcast studio that came to define what a high-budget, narrative-driven, NPR-adjacent american podcast sounded like. alex blumberg and...
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2023-10-08
Pac-Man 99 (2021 - 2023)
arika took the 1980 maze game and put ninety nine of them on one screen, where eating a ghost dropped an obstacle into somebody else's maze. it arrived on 7...
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2023-10-01
LBRY (2015 - 2023)
lbry was a blockchain-native content network launched by jeremy kauffman and jimmy kiselak out of new hampshire in may 2015. the pitch was a decentralized...
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2023-10-01
Achievement Hunter (2008 - 2023)
achievement hunter opened on 6 july 2008 as a database of written instructions for unlocking xbox achievements, built because geoff ramsey and burnie burns...
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2023-10-01
Ad-Aware / Lavasoft (1999 - 2023)
ad-aware found the software installed on your machine to watch you rather than to break it, back when antivirus vendors did not consider that their department....
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2023-10-01
Oryx (2013 - 2023)
on 19 june 2023 the two dutchmen who had run oryx for a decade said the blog would close on 1 october. stijn mitzer and joost oliemans had spent eighteen...
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2023-10-01
FileWarez (2004 - 2023)
the record industry got this one, and it did not need a raid to do it. ifpi and the brazilian anti-piracy body apdif brought in cyber gaeco, the cybercrime...
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2023-10-01
Rukkola.hu (2012 - 2023)
roughly 480,000 books moved between strangers in hungary over eleven years, by post and by hand, paid for in points rather than money. the publisher that...
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2023-09-30
Google Optimize (2016 - 2023)
google's free a/b testing tool. tied to google analytics, ran as a chrome-extension visual editor where you could swap copy or layout chunks on a live site...
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2023-09-30
BeeTV (2009 - 2023)
5.62 million members on 31 july 2013, and that number was the ceiling. avex and ntt docomo opened beetv on 1 may 2009 and sold it as the first broadcast...
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2023-09-30
FOIAonline (2012 - 2023)
twenty-two federal agencies once ran their freedom of information act traffic through a single website, and that website cost 1.3 million dollars to build...
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2023-09-29
Netflix DVD-by-Mail (1998 - 2023)
the red envelope outlived blockbuster, outlived the dvd format itself, and kept shipping until september 29 2023. reed hastings did not actually invent it...
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2023-09-29
Works with Nest (2014 - 2023)
at i/o in may 2019 google gave the works with nest program sixteen weeks to live, and the people who had wired their houses around it reacted badly enough that...
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2023-09-28
Lululemon Studio Mirror (2018 - 2023)
the mirror was a wall-mounted full-length fitness screen founded in 2016 by brynn putnam, launched in september 2018 at $1,495, and acquired by lululemon in...
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2023-09-27
The Cycle: Frontier (2019 - 2023)
yager development made spec ops: the line, then spent three years turning a battle royale into an extraction shooter and launched it free on steam in june...
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2023-09-19
Elyon (2020 - 2023)
the mmorpg that spent three years hyped as ascent infinite realm before bluehole quietly pivoted the whole thing into a generic action mmo, kakao games killed...
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2023-09-18
Facebook Messenger Lite (2016 - 2023)
messenger lite was facebook messenger with the weight cut off, made for the phones and networks the main app choked on. it was small and it ran on almost...
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2023-09-17
SAPO Vídeos (2006 - 2023)
120,000 videos by its first birthday, and sixty percent of them shot by the people watching. sapo videos opened on 28 december 2006 as portugal's answer to...
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2023-09-11
Kwangya Club (2022 - 2023)
a fight over who owned sm entertainment is what closed this one. kwangya club was sm's own fan club app, named for the wilderness in aespa's lyrics, and it...
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2023-09-08
Ventrilo (2002 - 2023)
ventrilo was a windows voice-chat client released by flagship industries on august 3 2002. it became the default voice-chat program for world of warcraft...
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2023-09-05
Pages Perso Orange (1996 - 2023)
france télécom opened wanadoo on 2 may 1996 and gave every subscriber free web space with the dial-up account, which is how a generation of french people...
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2023-09-01
Lookbook.nu (2008 - 2023)
lookbook.nu was a pre-instagram street-style network where you posted a full-body photo of your outfit, tagged the pieces, and collected points called hype...
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2023-09-01
Gfycat (2013 - 2023)
gfycat is remembered as a gif host, which it was not. it took the gif you uploaded and re-encoded it as video, so the thing that loaded in a second was never...
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2023-09-01
CITV (1983 - 2023)
citv began as a scheduling strand, a name wrapped around the after-school hours on itv, and it held that job for twenty-three years before becoming a channel...
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2023-09-01
Football Outsiders (2003 - 2023)
aaron schatz started a website in august 2003 to prove a boston globe columnist wrong about why the patriots had missed the playoffs, and ended up with the...
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2023-09-01
Media Temple (1998 - 2023)
ninety four and a half million dollars in cash bought godaddy a hosting company it then spent ten years deciding what to do with. media temple sold shared and...
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2023-09-01
SPACE10 (2015 - 2023)
copenhagen's meatpacking district held a research lab that belonged to a furniture company. space10 spent the best part of a decade on flat-pack housing and...
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2023-09-01
Rome Tools (2020 - 2023)
sebastian mckenzie had already written babel and yarn when he raised $4.5 million in may 2021 to build the one tool that would replace the entire javascript...
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2023-08-31
Volition (1996 - 2023)
the studio that made saints row, plus red faction and freespace before that, then got passed through thq and koch and deep silver and embracer for twenty-seven...
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2023-08-31
Microsoft Kaizala (2017 - 2023)
kaizala was a microsoft garage messaging app for india and the rest of microsoft's "next billion users" emerging markets. it shipped to the public out of india...
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2023-08-31
iTunes Movie Trailers (1999 - 2023)
apple launched trailers.apple.com in 1999 as a quicktime showcase tied to the broader push for the quicktime video player. the site became the front door for...
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2023-08-31
Freewebs / Webs.com (2001 - 2023)
a free website in the browser, back when that mostly meant geocities and a lot of patience. two brothers built freewebs out of a maryland dorm in 2001 and grew...
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2023-08-31
Xuite (2005 - 2023)
xuite was taiwan's blog and photo-album service, the one chunghwa telecom ran while yahoo ran wretch. from 2005 it held everyday taiwanese life on a huge...
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2023-08-29
Stitcher (2008 - 2023)
stitcher was the commute app for the american drive. i never had that commute and podcasts in turkey arrived as youtube tabs and spotify embeds. siriusxm...
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2023-08-25
Marvel Future Revolution (2021 - 2023)
netmarble built an open-world marvel game for phones and shipped it globally on 25 august 2021. it reviewed well and took an apple design award for innovation...
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2023-08-21
Skyblog (2002 - 2023)
the french teenage blogging platform from 2002 to 2023. owned by the radio station skyrock. millions of french teenagers had a skyblog at some point. it was...
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2023-08-21
Fanhouse (2020 - 2023)
fanhouse launched in november 2020 as a sfw alternative to onlyfans, aimed at creators whose income was already coming from patreon and instagram. andreessen...
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2023-08-14
Discord.io (2015 - 2023)
at 16:36 cet on 14 august 2023 the operators confirmed that the database being sold on a hacking forum really was theirs. four minutes later they began...
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2023-08-11
Microsoft Cortana (2014 - 2023)
microsoft's voice assistant. announced at build april 2 2014, named after the halo character with jen taylor's voice, launched on windows phone 8.1 and then...
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2023-08-10
BayFiles (2011 - 2023)
bayfiles was gottfrid svartholm and fredrik neij's 2011 attempt to run a file-hosting service that followed the rules. they hired dmca agents. the terms of...
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2023-08-10
DiscordList.me (2017 - 2023)
discord shipped without a way to find anything on it, and for most of a decade that gap was filled by outsiders. discordlist.me was one of them, an...
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2023-08-09
LinkedIn InCareer (2021 - 2023)
china was the last large market where an american social network still had a login screen, and linkedin kept it for seven years by censoring what appeared on...
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2023-08-03
Bazaar.tf (2012 - 2023)
valve's own api is what finished it. bazaar.tf ran from june 2012 to 3 august 2023 as a trading site for team fortress 2 items, built by two people who set out...
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2023-08-02
Hopin (2019 - 2023)
hopin was the purest artifact of the pandemic economy, a virtual-events platform that a sick young founder built in his flat in 2019 and that the lockdowns...
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2023-08-01
Voot (2016 - 2023)
voot was viacom18's answer to indian streaming, free and paid for by advertising, and it carried everything colors and mtv had already broadcast. it launched...
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2023-08-01
Buka Manga (2011 - 2023)
fifty million registered accounts, and the thing that killed it was obeying the law first. buka spent four years as the place chinese readers went for...
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2023-08-01
Wysp (2011 - 2023)
françois chollet built a place for people to practice drawing, ran it for three years, then went to google and wrote keras. wysp kept going without him for...
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2023-08-01
The Silph Road (2016 - 2023)
niantic paid the bills for about a year and then stopped, and that was enough to end it. the silph road was the volunteer research network that worked out...
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2023-08-01
Teddit (2020 - 2023)
reddit's api repricing killed it and the developer said so in the first paragraph of the notice. teddit was a front-end: it fetched reddit for you and handed...
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2023-07-31
Amazon Halo (2020 - 2023)
amazon halo shipped on 27 august 2020 as amazon's late entry into fitness wearables. the band had no screen. it did have a microphone that listened to your...
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2023-07-27
Third Room (2022 - 2023)
funders who had said they were interested did not come through, element could not carry it alone, and in july 2023 the three people building third room were...
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2023-07-26
Apple Photo Stream (2011 - 2023)
my photo stream was the free apple feature that pushed the last thousand photos from your iphone to your mac and your ipad without touching your icloud storage...
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2023-07-23
Twitter (2006 - 2023) (2006 - 2023)
the public conversation site. 280 characters per post (originally 140). the timeline was where you watched things happen in real time. peak culture was around...
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2023-07-23
AppHarvest (2018 - 2023)
appharvest was a kentucky greenhouse startup that combined climate-adjacent controlled-environment agriculture with an appalachian job-creation pitch. jonathan...
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2023-07-19
Google Album Archive (2016 - 2023)
nobody signed up for album archive. google built it in july 2016 as somewhere to put the photos left over from products it was closing, starting with picasa,...
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2023-07-18
RememBear (2018 - 2023)
dave carollo posted the goodbye on 19 july 2022 and gave the product exactly one year. most dead software gets a fortnight. remembear was tunnelbear's password...
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2023-07-17
Twitch Soundtrack (2020 - 2023)
twitch soundtrack was a rights-cleared background-music library that twitch launched into beta on 30 september 2020, in the same twitchcon feature push that...
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2023-07-12
Banciyuan (2014 - 2023)
the notice went up on 12 june 2023 and gave everybody exactly thirty days. 半次元 meant the half-dimension, the strip of ground between a drawn character and the...
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2023-07-09
OmegaWiki (2005 - 2023)
on 27 december 2005 gerard meijssen started a dictionary meant to hold every word of every language with definitions in every language, stored as a relational...
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2023-07-06
Evolve (2015 - 2023)
four hunters against one player controlling a monster that grew stronger the longer it stayed alive, which was a genuinely good idea, and turtle rock had...
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2023-07-05
Vowel (2018 - 2023)
andy berman posted the news on a thursday night in june 2023 and gave customers until 5 july to download their own recordings. vowel was a video meeting tool...
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2023-07-03
TweetDeck (2008 - 2023)
tweetdeck was the free multi-column twitter client that journalists and community managers ran in a browser tab for over a decade. iain dodsworth shipped it in...
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2023-07-01
Ello (2014 - 2023)
ello launched in march 2014 as an invite-only social network with a manifesto that said "you are not a product." after facebook started enforcing real-name...
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2023-07-01
Google Code Jam (2003 - 2023)
twenty years of algorithm problems, open to anybody with a compiler and a connection, judged the same way for a student in minsk as for an engineer in mountain...
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2023-07-01
bash.org (1999 - 2023)
bash.org was a database of funny things people said on irc, submitted by readers and voted on, running from 1999 under the name qdb. for most of the 2000s it...
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2023-07-01
Universal Analytics (2012 - 2023)
universal analytics was google's second analytics engine, announced in october 2012 and built around analytics.js and a user id that could follow a person...
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2023-07-01
Maestro (1991 - 2023)
1991, and mastercard put a debit brand on cards in ninety-three countries. it did one thing and did it nearly everywhere: pin at the terminal, checked against...
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2023-07-01
A Plus (2015 - 2023)
ashton kutcher put his name and his money behind a site that would only publish good news, and for a couple of years the traffic was real: fifty million...
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2023-07-01
MetroHero (2015 - 2023)
two software engineers who rode the washington metro to work built a better dashboard than the agency that owned the trains, and ran it for seven years out of...
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2023-07-01
Audm (2016 - 2023)
two columbia graduates built a subscription app in 2016 on the belief that a 10,000 word magazine feature deserved a professional narrator rather than a robot...
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2023-06-30
Apollo for Reddit (2017 - 2023)
christian selig made the best reddit client of the 2010s as a side project that turned into his only job. for almost six years apollo was the reason a lot of...
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2023-06-30
Reddit is Fun (2010 - 2023)
rif was the android reddit client. andrew shu (u/talklittle) shipped the first version in april 2010 and ran it as a one-developer product for thirteen years....
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2023-06-30
Sync for Reddit (2012 - 2023)
sync for reddit was a single-developer android client for reddit, started by ljdawson in 2012 as a free app then expanded into paid pro tiers. it was one of...
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2023-06-30
Poparazzi (2021 - 2023)
alex and austen ma spent three years iterating ttyl inc into one final app called poparazzi, where you could not post a photo of yourself, only friends could...
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2023-06-30
JumpStart (online) (2009 - 2023)
knowledge adventure took the jumpstart cd-rom brand from the nineties and rebuilt it as a browser mmo for grade-schoolers in 2009. it ran for fourteen years,...
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2023-06-30
Paravi (2018 - 2023)
six japanese media companies, tbs and tv tokyo among them, put money into one holding company in july 2017 and opened paravi on 1 april 2018. the point was to...
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2023-06-30
BaconReader (2011 - 2023)
reddit set the price at twenty-four cents per thousand api calls and every third-party client did the same arithmetic. baconreader was the odd one in that...
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2023-06-30
The Witcher: Monster Slayer (2021 - 2023)
half a million downloads in the first three days and over a hundred million monsters killed before the end, which reads like a hit and was not one. spokko, cd...
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2023-06-30
ЯRUS (2021 - 2023)
on 29 june 2023 the press office of a russian social network with twelve million registered accounts announced that support for the project was suspended "due...
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2023-06-30
Dlisted (2005 - 2023)
michael kuroiwa started writing celebrity gossip on his lunch break at an office job in january 2005, semi-anonymously, as michael k. eighteen years later...
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2023-06-30
RIA FAN (2014 - 2023)
a failed mutiny killed this one. ria fan was the flagship of yevgeny prigozhin's patriot media group, staffed and housed alongside the internet research agency...
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2023-06-30
PlaceIMG (2013 - 2023)
148,700,000 images, served from a side project a michigan web agency put up in 2013 and then mostly forgot about. you asked for a size in the url and got back...
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2023-06-29
LINE BLOG (2014 - 2023)
line opened a blogging platform for japanese celebrities on 4 november 2014 and let everybody else in two years later, which is the normal order of operations...
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2023-06-29
bit.io (2019 - 2023)
fifteen thousand people and thirty thousand postgres databases, built on the idea that making a database should cost one click and no signup. databricks bought...
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2023-06-28
Yandex Q (2015 - 2023)
antonina samsonova was a journalist who wanted a russian quora, so she launched thequestion in march 2015 and had it past sixteen million monthly visitors by...
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2023-06-28
GAME Atsumaru (2016 - 2023)
one of the games hosted here recorded 4.6 million plays and later went to steam. the platform under it did not make it that far. dwango opened game atsumaru...
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2023-06-26
YouTube Stories (2017 - 2023)
youtube stories arrived on 29 november 2017 under the name reels, three years before instagram put that word on something else. it was a stories clone with a...
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2023-06-25
Petal Search (2020 - 2023)
washington cut huawei off from google mobile services in 2019 and the phones still had to ship, so huawei wrote its own search. petal search reached 170...
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2023-06-22
Adobe XD (2016 - 2023)
adobe XD was adobe's answer to sketch, announced as project comet at adobe MAX in october 2015 and shipped as a public beta on march 14 2016 under the 'adobe...
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2023-06-21
ARTDOXA (2007 - 2023)
sixteen years of posted artwork ended on a wednesday in june 2023, on a page 250 pixels wide that said thank you for your participation and sympathy. artdoxa...
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2023-06-20
ai_sponge (2023 - 2023)
on 5 march 2023 an anonymous person pointed a text generator and a voice cloner at character models ripped out of a 2003 playstation game and left the result...
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2023-06-16
Egloos (2003 - 2023)
egloos launched on june 23, 2003 in south korea, founded by tatter and company. the platform organized its bloggers into themed valleys, around twenty-nine of...
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2023-06-16
SubRocks (2023 - 2023)
at around ten at night on 16 june 2023 somebody exploited subrocks and deleted the whole directory. no backup existed. the site was a careful reconstruction of...
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2023-06-15
Grasshopper (Google) (2017 - 2023)
area 120 was google's in-house incubator, and grasshopper was the one thing it made that a beginner could name. it taught javascript in puzzles small enough to...
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2023-06-13
Google Conversational Actions (2016 - 2023)
google opened the assistant to outside developers on 8 december 2016, and by january 2019 there were 4,253 third-party actions in the united states against...
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2023-06-06
Knockout City (2021 - 2023)
knockout city was a team dodgeball game, bright and fast, where you caught and threw balls at the other side in tight arenas. velan studios made it and...
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2023-06-05
Parcast (2016 - 2023)
parcast was a true-crime and conspiracy podcast factory built by max and ron cutler in los angeles. forty plus daily and weekly shows. spotify bought it in...
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2023-06-05
Pokémon Trading Card Game Online (2011 - 2023)
the pokemon company's own free client for its own card game, launched in march 2011 as a browser thing called trainer challenge and grown into a desktop and...
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2023-06-05
Splice Studio (2014 - 2023)
version control for music, free, aimed at two producers passing a session back and forth instead of mailing each other zip files. splice was built around it in...
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2023-06-02
Neeva (2019 - 2023)
neeva was a paid, ad-free, privacy-first search engine built by two ex-google ads executives. it launched to the us public in june 2021 for $4.95 a month,...
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2023-06-02
Blaseball (2020 - 2023)
a sport nobody played and hundreds of thousands of people followed. blaseball simulated a full season of a fake baseball league every week in your browser,...
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2023-06-02
PixelOpus (2013 - 2023)
an unannounced game with sony pictures animation was still in production when sony closed the studio making it. pixelopus opened in july 2013 as a student...
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2023-06-01
IRL (2017 - 2023)
irl was a group-messaging app that told investors it had twenty million monthly users on the way to a 1.2 billion dollar valuation. most of those users did not...
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2023-06-01
Bountysource (2012 - 2023)
the blockchain group filed for bankruptcy in november 2023, five months after the platform it owned had gone quiet on every developer waiting to be paid....
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2023-06-01
Xilinx (1984 - 2023)
ross freeman had an idea in 1984: sell a chip blank and let the customer decide afterward what it does. his company sold that idea for thirty-nine years, and...
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2023-06-01
Entale (2017 - 2023)
wil harris came out of condé nast's british digital operation with one idea and spent six years on it: a podcast should have something worth looking at on the...
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2023-06-01
Zume (2015 - 2023)
four hundred and forty five million dollars went into a company whose central insight was that the oven should travel with the order. the robots worked. the...
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2023-05-31
AddThis (2006 - 2023)
addthis was the row of colored share buttons at the bottom of every article on the western web from about 2008 to 2016. a small js include, a share dialog, a...
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2023-05-31
RARBG (2008 - 2023)
rarbg ran torrent listings out of bulgaria for fifteen years and collected court-ordered blocks in a dozen countries, which cost its users about the length of...
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2023-05-31
Dyn / DynDNS (1998 - 2023)
a sixteen-year-old put free dynamic dns on the internet in 1998 so he could reach a printer from off campus, and it turned into the company holding the names...
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2023-05-31
Sameroom (2015 - 2023)
lechat inc. spent two years building a team chat product called kato and lost to slack. instead of closing, it started selling the connection between the...
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2023-05-25
Vice News Tonight (2016 - 2023)
ten days after vice media filed for chapter 11, the newscast it had built to prove the company was serious aired its last episode and went off. vice news...
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2023-05-18
CrossfireX (2022 - 2023)
fifteen months, start to finish. it arrived on xbox on 10 february 2022 carrying the name of a game with six hundred and fifty million registered players...
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2023-05-15
Echoes of Mana (2022 - 2023)
four million downloads by september 2022, and the end was announced the following february. echoes of mana launched on 27 april 2022 as square enix's gacha...
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2023-05-15
Akan Wikipedia (2004 - 2023)
akan is not a language. it is the family that twi and fante sit inside, and in 2004 somebody opened a wikipedia for it anyway. for nineteen years the wiki...
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2023-05-11
Numa Numa (2004 - 2023)
gary brolsma was eighteen when he pointed a webcam at himself in december 2004 and lip-synced an o-zone song from the shoulders up. it reached roughly seven...
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2023-05-10
LaMDA (2021 - 2023)
blake lemoine spent 2022 reading lamda's answers about death and personhood, concluded it was sentient, hired it a lawyer and got fired. that is the only...
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2023-05-10
GeekTools (1998 - 2023)
in 1998, finding out who owned a domain meant knowing which of dozens of registry servers to ask. geektools answered that from a web form by choosing the...
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2023-05-09
MTV News (1987 - 2023)
mtv news started as the week in rock with kurt loder in 1987 and became one of the few places americans got music news from a familiar on-screen face. it...
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2023-05-08
Spinrilla (2013 - 2023)
fifty million dollars and a worldwide ban on ever building anything like it again. that was the price jeffery copeland agreed to on 3 may 2023, and five days...
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2023-05-05
BuzzFeed News (2012 - 2023)
buzzfeed news was the part of buzzfeed that took itself seriously. ben smith was hired from politico in late 2011 to build it, and over the next decade the...
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2023-05-05
Heardle (2022 - 2023)
one second of intro, a longer snippet for each miss, six tries to name the song. a small london studio put it online on 26 february 2022 in the wake of wordle...
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2023-05-03
Clash (clash.me) (2020 - 2023)
i never used clash. by the time it launched in august 2020 i was 36, working as an engineer, and the entire short-form-video creator subgenre had passed me...
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2023-05-03
VRV (2016 - 2023)
vrv sold a cable package with the cable taken out. one subscription, a dozen small channels inside a single app, each one aimed at an audience too narrow to...
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2023-05-02
big big channel (2017 - 2023)
hong kong's dominant broadcaster watched twitch and youtube take its audience, then built its own version and stocked it with its own contract artists. big big...
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2023-05-01
Windows Genuine Advantage (2005 - 2023)
windows genuine advantage was microsoft's anti-piracy system for windows XP and vista. launched july 25 2005, the notifications tool followed on april 25 2006...
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2023-05-01
Misfit Wearables (2011 - 2023)
misfit wearables was a 2011 san francisco hardware startup that made small coin-shaped fitness trackers, the shine, the ray, the flash. fossil bought it in...
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2023-05-01
NoiseTrade (2008 - 2023)
noisetrade was a nashville direct-to-fan music and book distribution platform founded in april 2008 by derek webb. the trade was simple: an artist uploaded a...
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2023-05-01
Storybook Brawl (2021 - 2023)
four magic: the gathering pros in olympia, washington built an auto battler out of fairy tale cards and put it into early access in june 2021. ftx bought the...
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2023-05-01
Luminous Productions (2018 - 2023)
27 march 2018 to 1 may 2023 is five years and five weeks, and one game. square enix spun luminous productions out of the final fantasy xv team to build...
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2023-05-01
AdFly (2009 - 2023)
linkvertise, a rival in the same trade, bought adfly in 2022 and spent six months telling its publishers to move. adfly was the url shortener that paid: every...
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2023-05-01
OverDrive Media Console (2009 - 2023)
libby killed it, and libby was built by the same people in the same building. the overdrive app carried a public library's ebook and audiobook collection onto...
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2023-04-30
Spotify Greenroom (2021 - 2023)
spotify greenroom was a clubhouse clone built on the betty labs acquisition. spotify paid about fifty million dollars for the technology in march 2021,...
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2023-04-30
FileFront (1998 - 2023)
filefront was where you went to find the map, the mod, the patch. it died once in 2009 under ziff davis, came back, died again in 2016 under defy media, came...
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2023-04-30
Tiscali (1998 - 2023)
tiscali was a sardinian phone bill that briefly convinced itself it was europe's internet. renato soru launched it in cagliari in 1998 and gave italy internet...
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2023-04-29
Gimme Radio (2017 - 2023)
gimme radio was an internet radio station for metal, built on the idea that the person choosing the next song should be a person. it launched from san...
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2023-04-27
Clubhouse (2020 - 2023)
the app that turned the lockdown into a giant conference call you actually wanted to join. clubhouse was audio only and invite only, a live room full of voices...
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2023-04-27
Invisibilia (2015 - 2023)
march 2023 was the month npr cut ten percent of its staff against a budget hole of more than thirty million dollars, and four podcasts went into the hole with...
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2023-04-26
Tianya Club (1999 - 2023)
tianya club was the largest of china's first-wave bulletin boards, founded in haikou on february 14 1999. it ran BBS forums alongside a later blog and photo...
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2023-04-26
Book Depository (2004 - 2023)
the whole product was one line of copy: free delivery worldwide, no minimum order. if you lived outside the english-speaking world that line was the difference...
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2023-04-26
Facebook Watch (2017 - 2023)
1.25 billion monthly visitors in september 2020, forty six percent of everyone on facebook, and hardly anybody can name a single thing it made. meta put a...
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2023-04-20
Futurama: Worlds of Tomorrow (2017 - 2023)
tinyco built a freemium city builder out of new new york, hired the show's own writers to script it, and got the original cast to voice it. that made a phone...
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2023-04-20
Paper.li (2010 - 2023)
thirteen years of other people's links, bound every morning into a front page and announced by an automatic tweet that credited you whether you had asked for...
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2023-04-15
PinoyExchange (1999 - 2023)
pex was the philippine web's town square from 1999 to roughly the early 2010s, when facebook and twitter took the conversations elsewhere. michael nolledo...
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2023-04-15
Grex (1991 - 2023)
ann arbor had a bbs whose owner kept threatening to turn it off, so a dozen of its users spent six months in weekly meetings designing one he could not. grex...
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2023-04-15
RootsWeb WorldConnect (1999 - 2023)
on 10 november 1999 rootsweb announced a free place to put your family tree, after a four-week test in which its own staff and users pushed 5.5 million records...
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2023-04-13
WeVPN (2020 - 2023)
13 april 2023 is the day wevpn's homepage stopped selling anything and started apologizing. the service was three years old, run out of the british virgin...
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2023-04-11
Instagram NFTs (2022 - 2023)
stephane kasriel, meta's commerce and fintech lead, posted on 13 march 2023 that the company was winding down digital collectibles for now. that was the entire...
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2023-04-10
Dream SMP (2020 - 2023)
two youtubers opened a private minecraft server in april 2020 for a handful of friends and it turned into a serialized drama with thirty characters and twenty...
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2023-04-04
Genesis Market (2017 - 2023)
a dollar bought a working copy of somebody else's browser. genesis market sold what it called bots. a bot was the cookies and saved logins of a real infected...
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2023-04-01
Gigablast (2002 - 2023)
matt wells left infoseek, went home to albuquerque and spent two decades building a search engine that crawled the web itself rather than reselling somebody...
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2023-04-01
DatPiff (2005 - 2023)
datpiff was where the mixtape went after it stopped being a physical object. free to upload and free to download, with no label and no sample clearance...
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2023-04-01
GOV.UK Verify (2014 - 2023)
the government digital service put it into public beta on 14 october 2014 and live in may 2016, with private companies doing the identity checking and the...
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2023-04-01
WEB Comic High! (2008 - 2023)
august 2008, and futabasha put a web spinoff of its comic high! magazine online with no account to make and no viewer to install. it ran shojo-style manga...
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2023-03-31
LINE Live (2015 - 2023)
line live was a livestreaming service launched in december 2015 by line corporation under the slogan "live is real." it ran for seven and a half years inside...
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2023-03-31
Zippyshare (2006 - 2023)
zippyshare was the polish-run cyberlocker that lived from 2006 to 2023. forty-five million monthly visits at its peak. the blue download button at the bottom...
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2023-03-31
GYAO! (2005 - 2023)
gyao! was the free ad-supported japanese streaming service that launched in april 2005 as a usen broadband experiment. it took the usen-yahoo-japan joint...
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2023-03-31
JD.ID (2015 - 2023)
jd.id was the indonesian storefront of jd.com, china's number two online retailer, launched in 2015 to take on the local giants. it raised its way to unicorn...
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2023-03-31
Blim TV (2016 - 2023)
televisa owned mexican television the way almost nobody owns a national medium anymore, and in 2016 it pointed that at streaming. blim launched at 109 pesos a...
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2023-03-31
Love Live! School Idol Festival (2013 - 2023)
a phone rhythm game attached to an anime, which turned into the thing the anime was attached to. it launched in japan in april 2013, went worldwide in english...
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2023-03-31
PHS (Personal Handy-phone System) (1995 - 2023)
china named it after a boy in a science fiction novel. xiaolingtong, little smart, the kid from ye yonglie's story who travels to the future, became the brand...
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2023-03-31
kividoo (2015 - 2023)
cologne built a netflix for six-year-olds and ran it for eight years. kividoo was super rtl's hedge against the day children stopped watching television on a...
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2023-03-31
Tate Anime / Anime Beans (2017 - 2023)
production i.g shipped the first anime service built for a phone held upright on 5 june 2017 and called it タテアニメ. three minute episodes, a new one every...
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2023-03-31
Mojvideo (2006 - 2023)
a video site in a language two million people speak opened in november 2006, a year after youtube's official launch, and ran for sixteen more years. mojvideo...
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2023-03-31
TigerDirect (1985 - 2023)
two dead american retail chains are buried at this address. systemax bought the compusa and circuit city names out of their wreckage and folded both into the...
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2023-03-30
The Idolmaster Cinderella Girls (2011 - 2023)
eleven years and four months on a platform built for flip phones. launched on dena's mobage in november 2011 as a card game with no animation and almost no...
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2023-03-29
NVIDIA GameStream (2013 - 2023)
nvidia spent a decade advertising the shield as the box that would play the games already sitting on your pc, then shipped an app update that removed the...
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2023-03-28
Digital Planet (2001 - 2023)
august 2001, the world service put a weekly technology show on air and people inside the bbc wondered whether there would be enough stories to fill more than a...
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2023-03-27
Nintendo 3DS and Wii U eShop (2011 - 2023)
the 3ds and wii u eshops were nintendo's first proper digital storefronts. the 3ds version launched in june 2011 and the wii u version in november 2012. both...
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2023-03-27
Salto (2020 - 2023)
three french broadcasters who compete with each other every night of the week agreed in june 2018 to build one streaming service together. the competition...
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2023-03-27
WorldCat Identities (2007 - 2023)
thom hickey was oclc's chief scientist and he wanted to know what a library catalog could say about a person if nobody wrote a word of it by hand. worldcat...
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2023-03-21
Reddit Talk (2021 - 2023)
reddit talk was reddit's clubhouse competitor. the live-audio rooms feature launched on april 19 2021 at the peak of the social-audio craze, ran for almost...
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2023-03-21
Google Street View (app) (2015 - 2023)
google gave street view its own app on 3 september 2015, mostly so that ordinary people would contribute photo spheres to the map. for seven years that app was...
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2023-03-16
Hypermart (1996 - 2023)
ten megabytes, a real CGI directory and no bill, paid for by a banner the host wrote into the top of every page you published. go2net ran hypermart from 1996...
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2023-03-15
ChipMixer (2017 - 2023)
chipmixer opened in august 2017 and ran a bitcoin tumbler with no accounts and no records. you sent coins in and got back chips, fixed denominations that had...
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2023-03-14
PotterCast (2005 - 2023)
episode 130 got j.k. rowling on the phone, which made pottercast the first podcast ever to interview her, and she liked it enough to record the show's opening...
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2023-03-10
AltspaceVR (2015 - 2023)
altspacevr was the social platform you visited if you owned a vr headset and wanted to be in the same room as another human inside it. eric romo founded it in...
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2023-03-08
Anchor (2015 - 2023)
Anchor was the podcast hosting app that promised anyone could start a show in three taps. spotify bought it in 2019 for around 150 million dollars, ran it as a...
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2023-03-08
PopJam (2014 - 2023)
at ten in the morning london time, on 8 march 2023, an app full of children's drawings stopped taking posts. mind candy had built popjam in 2014 while moshi...
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2023-03-06
Recode (2014 - 2023)
recode was a technology news site built around two bylines and one conference. kara swisher and walt mossberg launched it on 2 january 2014, days after their...
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2023-03-05
Oculus Quest (2019 - 2023)
on 5 march 2023 meta switched off the social features on the first oculus quest. no more parties, no more visiting anyone else's home, no more invites. the...
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2023-03-03
Embark Trucks (2016 - 2023)
embark trucks was a san francisco autonomous-trucking startup founded in 2016 by alex rodrigues and brandon moak, both ycombinator winter 2016 alumni still in...
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2023-03-01
Arabul (1998 - 2023)
arabul opened in 1998 as a turkish search box bolted onto a hand-sorted category tree, and for a few years it tried to be a portal, with chat rooms and a...
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2023-03-01
Feed Wrangler (2013 - 2023)
feed wrangler was one of the paid rss services that sprang up the summer google killed reader in 2013. it was built by david smith, an independent ios...
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2023-03-01
Triposo (2011 - 2023)
three ex-google engineers decided in 2011 that a travel guide should be assembled by software rather than written by a person, and built one that still worked...
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2023-03-01
Keybase Sites (2016 - 2023)
zoom bought keybase in may 2020 and then simply let it sit. the hosting layer went first. keybase.pub, which turned the public folder of your encrypted...
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2023-03-01
Inverse Symbolic Calculator (1995 - 2023)
burnaby, british columbia, 18 july 1995: a university research group put a table of fifty four million constants on the web and let anyone paste in a decimal...
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2023-02-28
Rumbleverse (2022 - 2023)
iron galaxy built a battle royale with no firearms in it. forty players dropped into a city and hit each other with chairs until one was standing, and every...
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2023-02-28
Sony LocationFree (2004 - 2023)
28 february 2023 is when sony turned off net av, the piece that let a locationfree base station reach you from outside your own house. the last box had gone...
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2023-02-27
Babylon's Fall (2022 - 2023)
platinumgames spent five years turning a bayonetta studio into a live service studio, and square enix published the result on 3 march 2022. the all-time steam...
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2023-02-20
AmazonSmile (2013 - 2023)
amazonsmile launched in 2013 as a version of the amazon storefront that donated 0.5% of eligible purchases to a charity the shopper picked. over a decade it...
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2023-02-16
Crash Bandicoot: On the Run! (2021 - 2023)
king spent a crash bandicoot license on an endless runner and got the biggest launch week in its history outside candy crush. twenty seven million downloads in...
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2023-02-16
Order & Chaos 2: Redemption (2015 - 2023)
gameloft's beijing studio spent the first half of the 2010s building a world of warcraft for telephones, and then built it a second time. order & chaos 2:...
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2023-02-09
LocalBitcoins (2012 - 2023)
localbitcoins was helsinki-based and ran the actual peer-to-peer bitcoin marketplace for eleven years. no order book. people posted ads, met in cafes with...
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2023-02-06
Yammer (2008 - 2023)
yammer was the work social network nobody was sure they wanted. david sacks and adam pisoni spun it out of geni in 2008, won techcrunch50 that september, and...
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2023-02-04
iKeepBookmarks (1999 - 2023)
twenty-three years is a long run for a free web service that nobody wrote about. the site put your browser favorites on a server so you could reach them from...
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2023-02-03
Replika (pre-2023 romantic era) (2017 - 2023 (the relationship era))
the AI girlfriend and boyfriend app whose users built years-long relationships with their bots. on february 3 2023 luka removed the romantic features...
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2023-02-03
Zenly (2015 - 2023)
zenly was the friend-location app that a generation of european and southeast-asian teenagers used as their default group-chat backbone between 2017 and 2022....
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2023-02-03
Exclu (2020 - 2023)
on 3 february 2023 police in four countries went through seventy nine addresses at the same hour and switched off exclu, an encrypted messaging service sold by...
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2023-02-01
Deletionpedia (2008 - 2023)
deletionpedia opened in february 2008 as a wikimorgue. a bot watched english wikipedia's deletion log and kept a public copy of every article that got removed,...
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2023-02-01
Mycroft AI (2015 - 2023)
a non-practicing patent entity called voice tech corporation sued a company of four people in kansas city in 2020, and eventually dropped the case. by then it...
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2023-02-01
Stripperweb (2002 - 2023)
74 members in january 2002, 251,432 by january 2023, and in between the largest body of written knowledge the american adult-entertainment workforce ever put...
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2023-02-01
ProgrammableWeb (2005 - 2023)
forty public apis fit in the directory when john musser started it in 2005. seventeen years later it listed more than nineteen thousand, and mulesoft announced...
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2023-01-31
Facebook Bulletin (2021 - 2023)
facebook bulletin was meta's newsletter platform, launched 6 july 2021 to attack substack while substack was still the hot creator product. bulletin gave...
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2023-01-31
Pandora TV (2004 - 2023)
peter kim launched pandora.tv in october 2004, seven months before youtube went live. it was korea's first video-sharing site and the first anywhere to attach...
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2023-01-31
Webry Blog (2004 - 2023)
on 22 march 2004 nec's internet provider opened a blog host for anyone with a free biglobe id, and mailed a printed beginner's guide to whoever asked for one....
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2023-01-31
eOldal.hu (2007 - 2023)
central médiacsoport put the notice on its own blog on 7 october 2022 and named 1 february 2023 as the day everything left on the servers would be deleted....
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2023-01-31
SciGraph (2017 - 2023)
linked open data was supposed to be how the scholarly record finally talked to itself, and springer nature was one of the few publishers that actually built...
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2023-01-31
Upsource (2014 - 2023)
jetbrains stopped selling upsource on 1 february 2022 and stopped supporting it a year later to the day, which is about as orderly as a software death gets....
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2023-01-27
Drobo (2007 - 2023)
geoff barrall's pitch in 2005 was that raid asked ordinary people to understand raid, and it should not have to. the drobo took mismatched drives in any order,...
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2023-01-25
Snap Camera (2018 - 2023)
snap camera was snap inc's free desktop app for windows and macos, released in september 2018. it registered a virtual webcam on the operating system and...
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2023-01-21
Freshly (2012 - 2023)
nestle paid $950 million for freshly in october 2020, with up to $550 million more promised against targets, and shut it twenty-six months later. the company...
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2023-01-19
Tweetbot (2011 - 2023)
tapbots, a tiny two-person studio, shipped tweetbot for iphone on 14 april 2011. it cost real money in a category where every other app was free. an ipad...
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2023-01-19
Twitterrific (2007 - 2023)
the iconfactory shipped twitterrific for the mac on 15 january 2007, less than a year after twitter launched. it introduced the word "tweet" to describe a...
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2023-01-19
Echofon (2007 - 2023)
echofon started as twitterfox, kazuho okui's 2007 firefox extension for browsing twitter without leaving the page. it renamed in 2009 alongside a sibling...
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2023-01-19
Genesis Global Capital (2013 - 2024)
when ftx fell over in november 2022, the largest institutional crypto lender in the business stopped letting anyone take money out. barry silbert's digital...
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2023-01-18
Twitter Revue (2015 - 2023)
revue started in utrecht in 2015 as a quiet substack peer for writers and publishers. twitter bought it in january 2021, glued newsletter signup buttons to...
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2023-01-18
Google Stadia (2019 - 2023)
stadia was google's swing at netflix-for-games. it streamed up to 4k from a google data center to a chrome tab, with a wifi controller talking direct to...
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2023-01-11
Final Fantasy VII: The First Soldier (2021 - 2023)
square enix said it had not been able to deliver the experience it hoped for, which is the standard sentence, and closed the first soldier on 11 january 2023...
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2023-01-10
Spellbreak (2020 - 2023)
proletariat spent three years building a battle royale with the guns taken out, where you wore an elemental gauntlet on one arm and picked the second one up...
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2023-01-10
Windows 8 (2012 - 2023)
microsoft shipped a tablet interface to four hundred million desktop machines that had no touch screens and took the start button off the taskbar for the first...
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2023-01-08
Gemini Earn (2021 - 2023)
340,000 people had money in it. gemini earn paid interest on crypto deposits by lending them to genesis global capital, and when genesis paused withdrawals on...
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2023-01-08
LeaveHomeSafe (2020 - 2023)
hong kong put a printed qr code on every restaurant door in november 2020 and told you to scan it before sitting down. by january 2022 the same app carried...
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2023-01-05
Google Question Hub (2018 - 2023)
google built a tool whose entire content was the holes in its own index. question hub collected the search queries that came back with nothing useful and...
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2023-01-01
Dark Sky (2012 - 2023)
dark sky was a weather app that told you when it was about to rain in the next ten minutes. it cost three dollars and ninety-nine cents and people kept it on...
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2023-01-01
Jinx.com (1999 - 2023)
jinx (stylized as J!NX) launched in 1999 as a home business run by san diego web developers sean gailey and tim norris, hand-printing shirts for counter-strike...
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2023-01-01
Nexopia (2003 - 2023)
nexopia was a canadian teen social network started in edmonton in february 2003 by an eighteen-year-old named timo ewalds, who built it out of an earlier site...
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2023-01-01
We Heart It (2008 - 2023)
we heart it was the image curation site fabio giolito built in brazil on january 3 2008 as a personal weekend project. by 2011 it had moved to san francisco as...
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2023-01-01
Archie (1990 - 2023)
archie was the first search engine on the internet, four years before there was a web to search. alan emtage built it as a postgraduate at mcgill in montreal...
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2023-01-01
HTTPS Everywhere (2010 - 2023)
a browser extension from the electronic frontier foundation and the tor project that rewrote http links to https before the request left your machine, using a...
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2023-01-01
NetMarket (1994 - 2023)
on 11 august 1994 a man in philadelphia named phil brandenberger paid twelve dollars and forty-eight cents for a sting cd, and the new york times ran it the...
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2023-01-01
WikiPilipinas (2007 - 2023)
manila, 12 june 2007, philippine independence day: a publishing house switched on an encyclopedia forked from fifteen thousand wikipedia articles and told its...
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2023-01-01
Lot18 (2010 - 2023)
forty three million dollars went into a wine site in thirteen months, which tells you what late 2011 felt like if you were selling something at a discount for...
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2023-01-01
Twitterfall (2009 - 2023)
in february 2009 a national newspaper projected it onto the wall of its own newsroom, one month after two computer science students at the university of york...
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2023-01-01
Everyday Robots (2016 - 2023)
more than a hundred wheeled robots with a single arm each learned to wipe cafeteria tables and sort trash inside alphabet's own buildings. not one of them was...
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2022-12-31
uBid (1997 - 2022)
ubid was the second-place auction site of the dot-com era. founded in 1997 by gregory knox jones as a subsidiary of creative computers, it ran consumer...
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2022-12-31
Amazon Care (2019 - 2022)
an employee benefit that amazon tried to sell to other employers. it never got there. the internal memo said the offering was not complete enough for the large...
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2022-12-31
Baidu Nuomi (2010 - 2022)
it opened on 23 june 2010 as nuomi.com, owned by the company behind renren, and sold 152,165 discounted cinema tickets on its first day. baidu paid $160...
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2022-12-31
V LIVE (2015 - 2022)
v live was naver's live video service for korean celebrities, opened on 1 september 2015 so that artists could broadcast to fans directly instead of through a...
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2022-12-31
U17 (2009 - 2022)
u17, known in chinese as 有妖气, is where china's original web comics scene lived for about six years. it opened commercially in 2009 as a place for amateurs to...
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2022-12-31
Lego Mindstorms (1998 - 2022)
seymour papert wrote a book called mindstorms in 1980 about children learning by building things that think. eighteen years later lego put his title on a...
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2022-12-31
Web Platform Installer (2009 - 2022)
standing up a windows web server in 2009 meant hunting down iis, the .net framework and a compatible sql server express from three different download pages in...
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2022-12-31
BuzzVideo (2016 - 2022)
bytedance had two video apps in japan and only one of them turned into tiktok. the other one started in the united states in 2015 under the name topbuzz,...
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2022-12-31
La Cartoonerie (2002 - 2022)
flash ended on 31 december 2020 and took the studio with it, but the community it had built refused to go for another two years. la cartoonerie taught french...
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2022-12-31
Clara.io (2013 - 2022)
exocortex stopped developing clara.io in 2015 and left it running for another seven years. it was a full 3d modeler inside a browser tab with no plugin to...
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2022-12-31
Kiwi6 (2009 - 2022)
645,911 accounts, 6,880,357 files uploaded, 1,257,572,226 streams served, 46 terabytes at peak, three gigabits a second at the busiest. one person. peter cai...
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2022-12-31
ForumKristen.com (2007 - 2022)
a webmaster signing himself adi opened an indonesian christian message board on 9 december 2007 and kept it alive for fifteen years, moderated by volunteers...
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2022-12-27
Beaker (2017 - 2022)
a browser that could also make websites. you hit new site, wrote html in a built-in editor, and it was live, served off your own machine and seeded by whoever...
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2022-12-27
ラストピリオド (Last Period) (2016 - 2022)
six and a half years in, happy elements switched the servers off at three in the afternoon on 27 december 2022, and five days before that it had already put an...
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2022-12-21
OpenStax CNX (1999 - 2022)
connexions was one professor's argument that a textbook is the wrong unit. richard baraniuk cut teaching material into modules of a page or two, licensed them...
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2022-12-19
Google Web Light (2015 - 2022)
a google proxy that rewrote your page before it reached a phone on a slow connection. it threw out most of the weight and served what was left about four times...
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2022-12-16
LGTM.com (2017 - 2022)
github bought semmle in september 2019 for the query engine underneath lgtm.com and spent three years folding it into code scanning. the free public instance...
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2022-12-15
GitHub Atom (2014 - 2022)
atom was github's open-source text editor, themable with javascript and css the same way a web page was. then microsoft bought github, and vs code already...
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2022-12-15
Draw Something (2012 - 2022)
draw something was a turn-based pictionary game where one player drew a word with their finger and another guessed it. omgpop launched it on february 6 2012...
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2022-12-15
Atom (2014 - 2022)
github announced atom on 26 february 2014 and open sourced it that may, a text editor written in javascript and css so that anyone could rewrite any part of it...
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2022-12-12
GolfTV (2019 - 2022)
discovery bought twelve years of pga tour rights outside the united states for two billion dollars in 2018, signed tiger woods, and put the whole thing behind...
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2022-12-12
Weatherscan (1998 - 2022)
the last one was in beckley, west virginia. weatherscan was a cable channel with no presenters and no programming, just your local forecast on an endless loop...
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2022-12-09
Legendas.TV (2006 - 2022)
half the price of a big mac a month was what the team asked for in october 2019, when it first said it would close. it got three more years. legendas.tv had...
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2022-12-07
Twitter Moments (2015 - 2022)
the official twitter editorial team curated big news events, sports finals, and award shows into a slide-style story of public tweets. it never quite worked...
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2022-12-06
Still Processing (2016 - 2022)
central park, a museum floor, whatever room was closest to the thing they wanted to argue about. wesley morris and j wortham made still processing for the new...
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2022-12-06
Arctype (2019 - 2022)
clickhouse hired the team in october 2022 and the product got two months. the only surviving copy of arctype's goodbye is a screenshot somebody took of the...
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2022-12-04
Memonic (2010 - 2022)
the goodbye page went up on 4 december 2022 and nobody has touched it since. behind it was memonic, a zurich notebook built by the people who made local.ch,...
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2022-12-03
Fosshost (2020 - 2022)
for two years a small british nonprofit gave away servers to open source projects that could not pay for them, and by the end of 2021 around 250 of them were...
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2022-12-02
Facebook Live Audio Rooms (2021 - 2022)
facebook live audio rooms was meta's clubhouse clone, rolled out in the united states on 22 june 2021 during the peak of the pandemic audio-social wave. it...
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2022-12-02
Cake Browser (2018 - 2022)
the pitch was that a page of blue links is just another menu you have to read, so this browser preloaded the top search results as real pages and let you swipe...
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2022-12-01
elevenia (2014 - 2022)
elevenia was an indonesian online marketplace, launched in march 2014 as a joint venture between the carrier XL axiata and south korea's SK planet, whose 11st...
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2022-12-01
Rigveda Wiki (2007 - 2022)
rigveda wiki was the korean internet writing itself down: fifteen years of pop culture, slang and argument, started on 1 march 2007 as angelhalo wiki and read...
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2022-12-01
Spinnup (2013 - 2022)
spinnup was universal music's do-it-yourself distributor, started in sweden in 2013. you paid a flat fee, kept all your royalties, and your record went to...
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2022-12-01
Pantaya (2017 - 2022)
nine hundred thousand people were paying six dollars a month for spanish language movies in a country that had never been offered them properly. pantaya...
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2022-12-01
BobrDobr (2006 - 2022)
the biggest bookmarking service in the russian internet collapsed on the day it opened, under traffic its own launch blog had generated. maxim spiridonov wrote...
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2022-12-01
Most Awesomest Thing Ever (2010 - 2022)
teleportation finished first out of 4,418 things, ahead of time travel and ahead of the universe itself. the internet, which the voting ran on, came fourth. a...
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2022-12-01
mastodon.technology (2017 - 2022)
ash furrow ran a server for 23,561 people in his spare time and announced in october 2022 that he was done. the timing is the whole story: twitter had just...
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2022-12-01
Duplex on the Web (2019 - 2022)
december 2022 is when google turned off the half of duplex that never made a phone call. duplex on the web launched at i/o 2019 and spent three years clicking...
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2022-11-30
Uploaded (2007 - 2022)
uploaded was the european cyberlocker that outlasted almost all of them. it survived the megaupload panic that killed the others in 2012 and kept selling...
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2022-11-30
Dragalia Lost (2018 - 2022)
the one mobile game nintendo put out that was not attached to a character you already knew. cygames built it, nintendo published it, and for four years it ran...
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2022-11-30
E-Postbrief (2010 - 2022)
to get an address you went to a post office counter and showed a photo id, then confirmed a code sent by sms and a second code posted to your home on paper....
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2022-11-30
Sweb.cz (2000 - 2022)
seznam.cz ran a free webhosting service for twenty-two years and closed it on 30 november 2022 because hardly anybody was still using it. the free tier was 100...
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2022-11-30
Initiative Q (2018 - 2022)
ten million people signed up for a currency that was never issued. initiative q handed out imaginary money to anyone who would invite their friends, on the...
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2022-11-30
Onrush (2018 - 2022)
a racing game that deleted the finish line. twelve players, two teams of six, and a respawn system called the stampede that kept everybody inside the same pack...
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2022-11-29
Smash World Tour (2020 - 2022)
nintendo denied the license on 23 november 2022 and the largest grassroots super smash bros. circuit in the world ended six days later, ten days before its own...
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2022-11-28
BlockFi (2017 - 2023)
blockfi was a crypto lender, founded 2017 in jersey city, valued at $3 billion at peak. it took customer bitcoin deposits, paid yield, and lent the same coins...
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2022-11-28
Heroku Free Tier (2007 - 2022)
for fifteen years heroku was where you pushed a side project to find out if it worked. one git push, one.herokuapp.com url, no card on file. salesforce closed...
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2022-11-28
TrekEarth (2002 - 2022)
on 28 november 2022 trekearth.com was still serving its own front page under the line learning about the world through photography. by the following morning...
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2022-11-22
Crowfall (2015 - 2022)
the whole design was about worlds that end. campaigns ran for a month or a year and then closed for good, and you carried what you had looted back to a private...
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2022-11-18
G4 TV (2002 - 2022)
comcast spent two decades trying to make a cable channel for gamers and tech people happen. it launched in 2002 and absorbed techtv two years later....
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2022-11-17
Protocol (2020 - 2022)
robert allbritton opened a newsroom in february 2020 about the collision between technology and government, kept it structurally separate from politico, and...
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2022-11-17
Qwant Music (2016 - 2022)
ajaccio, corsica, had a search-engine subsidiary for about three years. it built a music search that could find a record by tempo or by chord, using analysis...
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2022-11-17
COCOA (2020 - 2022)
forty-one million downloads, and for roughly four months of that run the android build could not deliver a single exposure notification to anybody. cocoa was...
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2022-11-17
Galactica (2022 - 2022)
three days is the entire life of the public demo. meta released galactica on 15 november 2022 as a language model trained on 48 million scientific papers, sold...
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2022-11-15
Reddit Public Access Network (2019 - 2022)
for three years reddit ran a television channel whose schedule was a vote. rpan started on 19 august 2019 as a five day experiment and then stayed, with...
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2022-11-14
Soribada (2000 - 2022)
the first korean peer to peer service, written by the yang brothers in 2000 and named ocean of sound. at its size it had around 22 million users in a country...
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2022-11-14
HotLog (2001 - 2022)
on 10 october 2001 a moscow company called info-stars switched on a hit counter. you pasted its code into your footer and hotlog told you how many people...
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2022-11-14
Surrender at 20 (2011 - 2022)
moobeat started a blogspot page about league of legends patch notes in february 2011, and aznbeat ran it alongside a full-time job from 2015 onward. on 14...
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2022-11-13
Mighty (2019 - 2022)
suhail doshi had already built mixpanel when he decided the problem with chrome was the machine it ran on. mighty put a chromium window on a sixteen-core cloud...
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2022-11-11
FTX (2019 - 2022)
ftx was the polite-feeling crypto exchange that hosted over a million customers and bought naming rights to the miami heat arena. then in november 2022 a...
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2022-11-11
Sogou Science Encyclopedia (2020 - 2022)
an encyclopedia written by working researchers and reviewed by users holding doctorates, launched by sogou in october 2020 and switched off two years later....
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2022-11-09
Slingbox (2005 - 2022)
the slingbox plugged into your home cable receiver and let you watch your living-room channels from any laptop in the world. it was invented by two brothers...
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2022-11-08
Yaani (2017 - 2022)
turkcell put it up in october 2017 as turkey's own search engine, announced with the line that it was not turkcell's engine but the country's. the promise was...
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2022-11-02
Meta Portal (2018 - 2022)
facebook's home video calling device. 2018 to 2022. it was a smart screen with a camera that auto-tracked you around the room while you took video calls. the...
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2022-11-01
Google Talk / Hangouts (Classic) (2005 - 2022)
google's chat product. it started as Google Talk in 2005 (clean, simple, XMPP-compatible). became Hangouts in 2013. became Hangouts Chat in 2017. became Google...
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2022-11-01
Google Duo (2016 - 2022)
google duo launched on august 16 2016 as the video-call half of the paired allo-duo messaging push, with end-to-end encryption by default and a knock knock...
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2022-11-01
Google Hangouts (2013 - 2022)
hangouts was google's attempt to fold every one of its chat products into a single app, and for a while it worked. it grew out of google talk, the little chat...
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2022-11-01
Torch Browser (2012 - 2022)
torch was chrome's engine wearing a download manager as a coat. it folded torrents and video-grabbing straight into the browser, spread through bundling and...
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2022-11-01
Kite (2014 - 2022)
adam smith started kite in 2014 to autocomplete code with machine learning, years before anybody used the word copilot for that. it reached roughly half a...
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2022-11-01
Google Surveys (2012 - 2022)
google's answer to the newspaper paywall was to charge you a question instead of money. one multiple-choice box slid over the article, the publisher earned a...
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2022-11-01
Square Enix Montréal (2011 - 2022)
three weeks. that is how long the studio lasted under the name onoma before embracer group walked into the office on 1 november 2022 and told the staff it was...
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2022-11-01
Docracy (2011 - 2022)
two developers won a hackathon in may 2011 by making legal contracts free to read and free to sign. docracy ran for eleven years and spent its last ones...
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2022-10-31
Amazon Explore (2020 - 2022)
amazon explore was a pandemic-era product that let you book a live one-on-one video call with a local expert somewhere in the world. a 50-minute walking tour...
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2022-10-31
Blendr (2011 - 2022)
joel simkhai had already built grindr when he announced this one at sxsw in march 2011, under the codename project amicus. same location-first grid, opened to...
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2022-10-28
Facebook Gaming (app) (2020 - 2022)
facebook gaming was meta's attempt to build a standalone twitch and youtube gaming competitor. the dedicated mobile app launched on android april 20 2020,...
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2022-10-26
Argo AI (2016 - 2022)
argo ai was ford and volkswagen's shared bet on level-4 self-driving. it peaked in july 2021 at a 12.4 billion dollar valuation with lyft joining as a small...
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2022-10-20
Fabric.com (1999 - 2022)
amazon bought fabric.com in 2008 and ran it for fourteen years before closing it during a cost-cutting autumn in 2022. the last order went through on 20...
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2022-10-14
Warhammer 40,000: Regicide (2015 - 2022)
seven years after release the servers went off and every store page vanished on the same day, 14 october 2022, and the announcement turned up five days later...
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2022-10-14
Hashbase (2017 - 2022)
paul frazee and tara vancil had built a browser that let you publish a website straight from your own machine, and then ran into the problem underneath it: a...
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2022-10-13
MBnet (1994 - 2022)
at 23:09 on 6 june 2002 somebody pressed a red switch in helsinki, with the former sysops standing around, and the largest bbs finland ever had went off the...
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2022-10-11
Everipedia (2014 - 2022)
two ucla students started everipedia in a dorm room in december 2014, on the complaint that wikipedia's deletion policy threw away too much. larry sanger, who...
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2022-10-06
Amazon Scout (2019 - 2022)
snohomish county, washington got the first six of them in january 2019, cooler-sized robots in prime blue rolling down suburban sidewalks at walking pace with...
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2022-10-04
Amazon Glow (2021 - 2022)
amazon glow was a $250 device announced on 28 september 2021 at amazon's fall hardware event and rolled out to the wider public in march 2022. it was aimed at...
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2022-10-01
UzmanTV (2007 - 2022)
a turkish site that answered practical questions with ninety-second videos of somebody qualified, built by ersan ozer in 2007 and profitable by november 2011,...
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2022-10-01
Yahoo! Philippines (2006 - 2022)
yahoo opened a philippine edition in 2006 and it became something the american parent never managed at home, which is a portal an entire country genuinely...
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2022-10-01
Facebook Live Shopping (2020 - 2022)
taobao proved this format works. meta could not make it work anywhere else. for two years facebook let sellers tag products inside a live video and run a...
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2022-10-01
Flowdock (2009 - 2022)
three helsinki developers built a shared team inbox in 2009, years before anybody was calling this category team chat. rally software bought them in february...
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2022-10-01
Thai Chana (2020 - 2022)
thailand downgraded covid to a disease under surveillance on 1 october 2022, dissolved the committee that had run the response the day before, and switched off...
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2022-10-01
Heartless Bitches International (1996 - 2022)
in 1996 an ottawa software specialist named natalie prowse took the insult and put it on t-shirts. readers mailed in why somebody had called them a heartless...
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2022-10-01
Facebook Neighborhoods (2020 - 2022)
calgary got it first, in october 2020, as a test nobody outside one canadian city could join. the idea was a dedicated space inside facebook for the people who...
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2022-09-30
Fetion (2007 - 2022)
the carrier-owned messenger that everyone in china had to install because the carrier put it on the phone. for three years around 2010 it was the second...
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2022-09-30
GittiGidiyor (2001 - 2022)
gittigidiyor was ebay in turkey for eleven years and the auction site everyone in the country used before that. it lost the market to trendyol and hepsiburada,...
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2022-09-30
Olympic Channel (2017 - 2022)
olympic channel was a joint venture between the international olympic committee and nbc sports group that ran as a us linear cable channel from 15 july 2017 to...
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2022-09-30
hubiC (2011 - 2022)
ovh's answer to dropbox, launched in december 2011 and priced to embarrass everyone. twenty five gigabytes free, unlimited storage for eighty four euros a year...
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2022-09-30
Ablo (2019 - 2022)
ablo came out of ghent in january 2019, built by massive media, the company that had already made netlog and twoo. it did one thing and did it cleanly: it...
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2022-09-30
Animax Plus (2007 - 2022)
sony spent 2022 collapsing every anime brand it owned into crunchyroll, and the german-language one was among the last to go. animax arrived on unitymedia...
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2022-09-30
Peltarion (2004 - 2022)
two stockholm engineers spent twelve years teaching other companies' engineers how to use neural networks, then spent six more building a platform so nobody...
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2022-09-29
Zipmail (1998 - 2022)
zipmail was brazil's answer to hotmail, a free webmail service launched in 1998 by the zip.net portal at the height of the dot-com rush. it grew fast, past a...
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2022-09-22
Edmodo (2008 - 2022)
the facebook-shaped wall that lived inside a k-12 classroom, with the teacher as the only admin. edmodo was the thing americans used to mean "homework on a...
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2022-09-21
big big shop (2018 - 2022)
a shop bolted onto a livestreaming app, selling you the thing the actor on screen happened to be holding. tvb launched big big shop in may 2018 against...
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2022-09-20
People of Walmart (2009 - 2022)
three men in their twenties walked out of a south carolina walmart in 2009 with an idea about photographing strangers, and inside a month time magazine was...
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2022-09-14
Emporis (1996 - 2022)
emporis was the web's quiet card catalog for tall buildings, started in frankfurt in 1996 and opened as a public database around 2000. for two decades it was...
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2022-09-12
Yandex Zen (2015 - 2022)
yandex launched zen in may 2015 as a personalized infinite-scroll feed bolted onto the yandex.ru search homepage. the algorithm pulled in news and blog posts...
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2022-09-12
Kendall & Kylie (2016 - 2022)
two days after launch it was the number one free app in the american app store, and it held that spot for four days before slipping to number two. kendall &...
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2022-09-05
Voisey (2018 - 2022)
snap bought voisey in november 2020, which is how most people outside london heard the name at all. four norwegian and english music-industry people had built...
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2022-09-01
15.ai (2020 - 2022)
15.ai was an anonymous mit-affiliated researcher's free text-to-speech site, online march 2 2020 and silent by september 2022. it cloned the voices of...
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2022-09-01
Waze Carpool (2016 - 2022)
waze carpool tried to sell the empty seats in rush hour traffic. it matched people driving the same way at the same hour and capped what a rider could pay at...
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2022-09-01
Upstream (2020 - 2022)
a philippine pay-per-view film platform opened on 14 november 2020 by two directors whose cinemas had been shut for eight months. it carried the 2020 metro...
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2022-09-01
Bibliogram (2019 - 2022)
cadence made the first commit on 19 december 2019 and gave the thing away. for two and a half years bibliogram did one small job: you pasted an instagram link...
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2022-08-31
Snap Originals (2018 - 2022)
snap originals was snapchat's arm for producing episodic vertical-video shows, launched in october 2018 as an answer to netflix competing for teen attention....
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2022-08-31
Snap Games (2019 - 2022)
snap games was snapchat's in-app html5 gaming platform, announced at the april 2019 partner summit alongside a bitmoji-for-games sdk. the pitch was multiplayer...
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2022-08-31
Brainbench (1998 - 2022)
brainbench sold the idea that a short online exam could stand in for a line on your cv. it started as tekmetrics.com in january 1998, took the brainbench name...
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2022-08-31
Telekom De-Mail (2012 - 2022)
germany passed a law in 2011 that gave email the standing of a registered letter, and deutsche telekom was one of four companies licensed to sell it. between...
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2022-08-30
Heavy Metal Machines (2017 - 2022)
florianópolis, on the coast of santa catarina, is where hoplon spent nine years building a four against four car combat arena about carrying a bomb into the...
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2022-08-26
Lexico (2019 - 2022)
oxford put its dictionaries on the open web in 2010 and then spent twelve years changing what the site was called. the last of those names was lexico, a joint...
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2022-08-24
Jump Force (2019 - 2022)
bandai namco built it for weekly shonen jump's fiftieth anniversary and put forty characters from sixteen manga into one arena. it shipped in february 2019 to...
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2022-08-22
DECnet (1975 - 2022)
in july 2022 a kernel developer sent a patch to the linux mailing list arguing that decnet belonged in a museum rather than in the kernel, and twelve thousand...
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2022-08-18
Snap Pixy (2022 - 2022)
pixy was the yellow selfie-drone snap launched in april 2022 to make the snapchat-camera experience hover. the device cost $230, was the size of a small palm,...
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2022-08-18
ChicagoNow (2009 - 2022)
the chicago tribune opened a blog network in august 2009, the same year its parent company was working through bankruptcy, and let a few hundred locals write...
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2022-08-18
Publons (2012 - 2022)
andrew preston and daniel johnston started publons in new zealand in 2012 to fix an accounting problem in science. peer review is unpaid and invisible, so the...
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2022-08-16
COVIDSafe (2020 - 2022)
on 26 april 2020 australia shipped a bluetooth contact tracing app and a million people installed it inside a day. by the time health minister mark butler...
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2022-08-15
Kandian (2019 - 2022)
kandian was tencent's answer to bytedance's douyin, the short-video app that took over chinese attention starting in 2016. tencent launched it in 2019, poured...
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2022-08-12
EachNet (1999 - 2022)
eachnet was china's first large consumer auction site, started in shanghai in august 1999 by two harvard graduates who had watched ebay work in america. ebay...
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2022-08-12
Killzone Shadow Fall (2013 - 2022)
guerrilla games switched off three sets of servers on 12 august 2022 and one of them belonged to the game that sold the playstation 4 on its first day....
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2022-08-10
High School Story (2013 - 2022)
a high school you built out of hangouts and students you recruited by clique, running on phones for nine years. pixelberry stopped writing new quests in june...
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2022-08-08
Redis To Go (2010 - 2022)
heroku wrote the first redis add-on for its own platform, spun it out, and from july 2010 a separate team ran it as redis to go. heroku's own documentation...
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2022-08-05
EVE: Valkyrie (2016 - 2022)
it started as a hack week demo at an eve online fan convention in reykjavik, running on an early oculus dev kit, and it was the thing that convinced a lot of...
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2022-08-01
News360 (2010 - 2022)
news360 was a personalized news app from san francisco, launched in july 2010, that used semantic analysis to work out what a story was really about and match...
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2022-08-01
YouTube Go (2016 - 2022)
youtube go was a second youtube app, written for phones and connections that could not carry the real one. it told you the size of a video in megabytes before...
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2022-08-01
teacup. (1997 - 2022)
teacup. started in august 1997 as a free rental message board for people who had a personal homepage and nowhere to run a script. you signed up and pasted a...
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2022-08-01
Struum (2021 - 2022)
a monthly allowance of credits for $4.99, spent one at a time on a film or an episode from any of about fifty small streaming services you did not want to...
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2022-08-01
Futabasha Web Magazine (2001 - 2022)
twenty-one years of free manga served out of a publisher's corporate homepage, with no account to make and nothing to install. futabasha web magazine lost its...
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2022-08-01
StrawPoll.me (2013 - 2022)
fifty million polls went through one address between 2013 and 2022, most of them settling an argument that lasted four minutes. strawpoll.me was a form with...
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2022-07-31
Surespot (2013 - 2022)
adam patacchiola and cherie berdovich ran surespot out of a tiny boulder operation called 2fours from 2013 onward. the messenger used 256-bit aes-gcm with...
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2022-07-28
Intel Optane (2015 - 2022)
a thousand times faster than nand was the claim intel and micron made on 28 july 2015, announcing a memory technology called 3d xpoint that would occupy the...
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2022-07-26
Windows DVD Maker (2007 - 2022)
windows dvd maker was the burn-to-disc app vista shipped in 2007 to help home premium and ultimate users put their slideshows on a tv-ready dvd. windows 8...
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2022-07-23
Parsijoo (2010 - 2022)
600,000 hits a day in 2016 made parsijoo the second most used search engine in iran, behind google by a margin nobody at the telecommunication ministry wanted...
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2022-07-22
OLL.TV (2012 - 2022)
at 23:00 on 22 july 2022 a ukrainian streaming service stopped mid-evening because of a law about who is allowed to own media. oll.tv had run for ten years on...
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2022-07-20
Yahoo! Movies (1998 - 2022)
yahoo movies launched on may 12 1998 as "upcoming movies," then rebranded inside the year. for most of its run it was the showtimes-plus-trailers-plus-reviews...
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2022-07-13
Celsius Network (2017 - 2022)
celsius advertised 17% yields on dollars and bitcoin. that was the whole pitch, written across every podcast ad and every "ama with alex" livestream from 2018...
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2022-07-13
Airlift (2019 - 2022)
eleven months separate the largest venture round in pakistani history from the evening staff were told the company would stop the next day. airlift raised 85...
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2022-07-06
Modsy (2015 - 2022)
$70.75m went into photographing people's living rooms and handing them back as 3d models with buyable furniture arranged inside. design work stopped in the...
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2022-07-05
Voyager Digital (2018 - 2023)
voyager digital was a us crypto brokerage. customers deposited fiat or crypto, the app gave per-coin quotes with no visible commission, and the platform paid...
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2022-07-05
Volt Bank (2018 - 2022)
six thousand customers, A$113 million in deposits, and a funding round that never closed. volt was the first australian startup ever granted a restricted...
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2022-07-01
Google My Business (2014 - 2022)
for eight years the free dashboard where a business claimed its own google listing had a name and an icon of its own. you fixed your opening hours in it,...
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2022-07-01
G Suite legacy free edition (2006 - 2022)
on 19 january 2022 google emailed a set of customers it had stopped accepting nine years earlier and told them the free years were over. the tier began on 28...
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2022-06-30
TERA (2011 - 2022)
tera was a korean action mmo that shipped non-target combat at a time when the genre was still mostly tab-target. it ran for eleven years, from the january...
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2022-06-30
Google Kormo Jobs (2018 - 2022)
kormo was a blue-collar jobs marketplace from google's next billion users org. it launched in dhaka in september 2018 and expanded into jakarta in march 2019....
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2022-06-30
Twoo (2011 - 2022)
twoo was a belgian social discovery site spun out of massive media, the same ghent team that built netlog. it launched in 2011 as a soft pivot away from the...
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2022-06-30
Prezi Classic (2009 - 2022)
prezi classic was the original flash-based presentation editor built by prezi in budapest between 2009 and 2022. peter halacsy, adam somlai-fischer and peter...
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2022-06-30
Unitel (1996 - 2022)
unitel was samsung sds's entry into the korean pc통신 boom, live from 1996 and the only one of the big four that made you install a windows client instead of...
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2022-06-30
Intel Movidius Neural Compute Stick (2017 - 2022)
intel put a vision processor on a usb stick in july 2017 and sold it for seventy-nine dollars, so that anybody with a raspberry pi could run a trained network...
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2022-06-30
Reading.am (2011 - 2022)
greg leppert built it inside svpply because the people he worked with kept asking each other whether they had seen some link. reading.am logged the page you...
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2022-06-30
WanderJaunt (2016 - 2022)
on 30 june 2022 wanderjaunt stopped operating in all eight of its american markets, and the way most people found out was a recorded greeting on the customer...
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2022-06-27
Three Arrows Capital (2012 - 2022)
three arrows capital was a fx-arb shop in singapore that pivoted to crypto in 2017 and rode the cycle to a claimed 18 billion dollars in net asset value. the...
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2022-06-27
OperaMail.com (1998 - 2022)
on 15 february 2021 fastmail began telling people that their email address was going to stop existing. the address ended in @operamail.com, which opera...
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2022-06-25
Club MyCE (1999 - 2022)
a hosting bill nobody renewed took down twenty-three years of forum archive on saturday 25 june 2022. the site opened in 1999 as cd freaks, the...
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2022-06-22
Il Cannocchiale (2003 - 2022)
nobody ever decided to close it. dol srl had run italy's first news-and-politics blogging platform for free since february 2003, and from 2015 the outages came...
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2022-06-20
Heroes of Newerth (2010 - 2022)
heroes of newerth was the paid dota clone that landed between the end of dota allstars on the warcraft 3 engine and the launch of valve's dota 2. s2 games out...
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2022-06-17
COVID Alert (2020 - 2022)
six million nine hundred and forty eight thousand people downloaded it. sixty three thousand of them ever typed in the one-time key that told the app they had...
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2022-06-15
Internet Explorer (1995 - 2022)
the browser that came with windows. it killed netscape. it ran the web for about ten years. then it became the universally hated browser web developers had to...
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2022-06-15
Embedded OpenType (1997 - 2022)
microsoft shipped a way to put real fonts on a web page in 1997, eleven years before anybody else managed it, and then spent the next decade unable to give it...
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2022-06-15
Katacoda (2015 - 2022)
o'reilly bought ben hall's katacoda in november 2019 and closed it to the public on 15 june 2022, a month after saying it would. the reason given was abuse....
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2022-06-15
Oberlo (2015 - 2022)
vilnius, 2015: two brothers built a pipe between aliexpress and shopify, so that a store could list a product it had never seen and forward the order to a...
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2022-06-09
Jeuxvideo.fr (2000 - 2022)
richard richarte's flashback multimedia launched jeuxvideo.fr in 2000 into a french games web that already had jeuxvideo.com, and spent twenty two years being...
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2022-06-07
SSNDOB (2012 - 2022)
ssndob sold american identities by the record. a full one, carrying a name and a social security number, went for fifty cents, and the catalog covered about 24...
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2022-06-07
Trunk Club (2009 - 2022)
trunk club sent you a box of clothes a stylist had picked, you kept what you wanted and posted the rest back for nothing. nordstrom bought it in 2014 for $350...
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2022-06-06
Oculus Venues (2018 - 2022)
on the evening of 30 may 2018 a few thousand headsets pointed at red rocks amphitheatre to watch vance joy play, each one sitting in a virtual crowd next to...
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2022-06-03
Facebook Podcasts (2021 - 2022)
facebook podcasts was meta's in-app podcast player and creator platform, rolled out in the united states on 22 june 2021 as part of a wider audio push that...
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2022-06-03
Friday.app (2016 - 2022)
luke thomas raised $2.5 million for friday, added a hundred thousand users in the product's last twelve months, and switched it off on 3 june 2022 because he...
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2022-06-01
Yaari (2019 - 2022)
indiabulls tried to run a meesho competitor by giving resellers a curated catalog and a share-to-whatsapp button. the funnel worked. paying the suppliers...
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2022-06-01
Google Chrome Apps (2010 - 2022)
google spent a decade teaching web pages how to install themselves, then decided the open web could manage it without the extra layer. a chrome app ran in its...
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2022-06-01
Google Native Client (2008 - 2022)
native client let a web page run compiled c and c++ at close to full speed inside a sandbox, years before anybody else managed the trick. the catch never went...
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2022-06-01
420chan (2005 - 2022)
420chan opened on 20 april 2005 as a joke about 4chan and drugs, and its raid board /i/ is where the people who began calling themselves anonymous organized...
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2022-06-01
Adobe Font Folio (1988 - 2022)
thirty-four years separate the two ends of this product. in november 1988 it was three hundred postscript typefaces on a 45-megabyte external drive for $9,600,...
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2022-06-01
Adobe Presenter (2006 - 2022)
a startup called presedia built a powerpoint-to-flash plug-in, macromedia bought the company in january 2003, and adobe inherited the product at the end of...
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2022-06-01
Furiffic (2013 - 2022)
on 6 march 2022 the owner of a furry art site pinned a post headed service termination, typed in pink, and gave everybody twelve weeks to take their pictures...
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2022-06-01
Koronavilkku (2020 - 2022)
a million people downloaded this on the day it opened, in a country with a population of 5.5 million. finland's institute for health and welfare built it to...
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2022-05-31
Survarium (2015 - 2022)
gsc game world closed in december 2011 and took stalker 2 down with it. the people who had been building that game founded vostok games in kyiv three months...
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2022-05-31
BLOGOS (2009 - 2022)
1,300 writers appeared on blogos and none of them were paid. the site opened in october 2009 as one page inside the livedoor portal, run by nhn japan and later...
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2022-05-31
Hispachan (2012 - 2022)
a pseudonymous administrator called zeta opened a spanish-language imageboard in november 2012 because there was not one, and by 2021 it was among the busiest...
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2022-05-26
CTemplar (2018 - 2022)
reykjavik was the whole pitch, icelandic privacy law and anonymous signup, sold under the name armored email. the holding company was registered in the...
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2022-05-24
Acast App (2014 - 2022)
a listed swedish company decided its own consumer app was a conflict of interest and turned it off. the acast app had been running since 2014, back when there...
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2022-05-23
PlayStation Now (2014 - 2022)
playstation now was sony's cloud-gaming subscription. it ran ps2, ps3 and ps4 games on rack servers in sony data centers and streamed the video to your console...
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2022-05-16
Spotify Stations (2018 - 2022)
spotify stations was a standalone radio-style listening app that spotify launched in australia in january 2018 and the us in early 2019. the pitch was a...
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2022-05-13
Terra / Luna (2019 - 2022)
terra was a south korean blockchain project whose stablecoin ust was kept at a dollar by burning and minting its sister token luna. the design worked while...
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2022-05-10
iPod (2001 - 2022)
the ipod was the product that turned apple into a consumer-electronics company. it sold roughly 450 million units across all variants over twenty years. then...
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2022-05-09
NewsFire (2004 - 2022)
eleven years went by between newsfire's last release and the day its website stopped answering. david watanabe wrote it for mac os x in 2004 and sold it for...
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2022-05-06
Scout.com (2001 - 2022)
a network of more than three hundred subscription sites, one per college team, whose product was ranked information about named american high school athletes...
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2022-05-01
Alexa Internet (1996 - 2022)
the little green bar at the bottom of your browser that said you were visitor number five hundred thousand of a website nobody else was on. amazon bought it in...
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2022-05-01
Engadget Japan (2005 - 2022)
boundless, the japanese arm of what used to be verizon media, announced on 15 february 2022 that both of its tech sites were closing. engadget's japanese...
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2022-05-01
TechCrunch Japan (2006 - 2022)
in 2006 volunteers started translating techcrunch posts into japanese, and sixteen years later the site they had started was running a startup conference in...
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2022-04-30
CNN+ (2022 - 2022)
cnn+ was a $300 million streaming service that never reached turkey at the licensing layer and never reached the us at the subscription layer either. chris...
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2022-04-30
Entertainment Weekly (print) (1990 - 2022)
ew was the american pop-culture weekly. movies, tv, music, books, the weekly report cards for the fall network schedule. time inc launched it on 16 february...
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2022-04-30
InStyle (print) (1994 - 2022)
instyle was the american celebrity-fashion monthly that time inc launched in june 1994 out of the people magazine editorial workshop. martha nelson ran it from...
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2022-04-30
People en Español (print) (1996 - 2022)
the spanish-language spin-off of time inc's people magazine, launched november 1996 for the US latino market. it defined celebrity coverage for a generation of...
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2022-04-28
Hyper Scape (2020 - 2022)
ubisoft montreal put it out in july 2020, in the summer when everyone was indoors and every publisher wanted a battle royale. the idea it was actually built...
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2022-04-27
Brave Frontier (2013 - 2022)
a-lim shipped brave frontier in japan on 3 july 2013 and gumi took it worldwide five months later out of singapore, which is how a japanese game ended up...
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2022-04-26
Duowei News (1999 - 2022)
duowei news opened on 11 january 1999 as chinese news net, run out of new york by ho pin, who had left a chinese state newspaper after 1989. it specialized in...
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2022-04-21
Apple Xsan (2005 - 2022)
xsan was apple's enterprise san cluster filesystem, a relabeled stornext from quantum that let multiple macs read and write to the same fibre channel volume at...
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2022-04-21
macOS Server (1999 - 2022)
apple's standalone server app ran for twenty-three years. it started in march 1999 as mac os x server 1.0, the unix-side answer to applesharetalk and the small...
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2022-04-15
Insteon (2005 - 2022)
insteon was a californian smart-home hub-and-switches ecosystem that did the two things revolv did not: it kept selling gear for seventeen years and it wired...
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2022-04-13
Club Penguin Rewritten (2017 - 2022)
two semi-anonymous students rebuilt club penguin a month after disney announced it was closing the original, and then ran the copy for five years while the...
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2022-04-12
RaidForums (2015 - 2022)
raidforums was the largest english-language breach-data forum of the 2015 to 2022 window. its portuguese founder diogo santos coelho started it as a teenager...
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2022-04-05
Hydra Market (2015 - 2022)
hydra was the largest darknet market ever built and almost nobody outside the russian-speaking internet ever saw it. it ran from 2015 to april 2022 and reached...
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2022-04-01
Hospitality Club (2000 - 2022)
hospitality club was a hospitality-exchange network founded in koblenz in 2000, where members hosted travelers for free and hosts were never allowed to charge....
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2022-04-01
Blender.io (2017 - 2022)
blender.io ran as a bitcoin mixer from 2017 and moved more than half a billion dollars through itself before it was finished. in march 2022 north korea's...
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2022-04-01
Hello (2016 - 2022)
orkut büyükkökten built orkut inside google as a twenty percent project and then watched google close it in september 2014. hello was his answer, launched on 1...
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2022-04-01
Geekologie (2006 - 2022)
geekologie.com has served the same short goodbye since april 2022, white text on a black page, telling you the site has shut down and then telling you to go be...
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2022-04-01
TNN 滔新聞 (2016 - 2022)
huang ding-ling ran a public relations group in taipei, and in 2016 she opened a newsroom inside it with herself as editor-in-chief of both. tnn was the first...
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2022-03-31
Stack Overflow Jobs (2009 - 2022)
stack overflow careers launched in october 2009 as joel spolsky's plan to pay the bills on the q&a site. it grew into stack overflow jobs, attached the...
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2022-03-31
StudiVZ (2005 - 2022)
studivz was the german-speaking world's homegrown facebook. founded in november 2005 in berlin by ehssan dariani and dennis bemmann, it grew into a 15 million...
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2022-03-31
MeinVZ (2008 - 2022)
the third and final VZ network, launched in february 2008 for germans who were done with university and did not fit on studivz anymore. it inherited the same...
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2022-03-31
EZweb (1999 - 2022)
ezweb was the mobile internet on au phones in japan, launched by the ddi cellular group on 14 april 1999, seven weeks after docomo shipped i-mode. it ran on...
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2022-03-31
Kristal-Astro (2000 - 2022)
brunei is small enough that one satellite platform was the whole pay television market. kristal sdn bhd out of the dst group and astro's malaysian broadcast...
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2022-03-31
Chastny Korrespondent (2008 - 2022)
the first russian publication to put its whole output under creative commons did it in 2009, and one of the stated reasons was to give russian wikipedia...
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2022-03-31
wize.life (2012 - 2022)
a property group in deggendorf bankrolled a social network for germans over fifty and ran it for nine and a half years on advertising alone. it opened in...
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2022-03-31
acTVila (2007 - 2022)
five japanese television manufacturers put a portal inside their own sets and ran it as a joint venture. panasonic and sony held 35 percent each and the other...
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2022-03-31
joinDOTA (2011 - 2022)
the first post went up on 26 june 2011, titled "joindota beta website is live". for the next decade joindota covered dota 2 harder than anyone else and ran...
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2022-03-31
WakuWaku Japan (2014 - 2022)
the japanese government put 15.5 billion yen behind a satellite channel whose job was to get asia watching japanese television. it opened in indonesia in...
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2022-03-31
Meta.org (2010 - 2022)
on 28 october 2021, the day facebook announced it was becoming meta, the chan zuckerberg initiative put a banner on meta.org saying the site would sunset on 31...
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2022-03-28
Learjet (1963 - 2022)
bill lear wanted a small jet that went fast and did not care much for the rest of the brief, which is why the learjet 23 first flew on 7 october 1963 with a...
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2022-03-26
bobiler.org (2006 - 2022)
bobiler.org was the turkish humor site that taught a country to make montes, which is what turkish internet culture called a photoshopped image with a joke...
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2022-03-25
Black News Channel (2020 - 2022)
the judiciary committee hearings for ketanji brown jackson ran through the last week of march 2022 and gave bnc the largest audience it ever recorded. the...
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2022-03-22
Wanmen University (2012 - 2022)
at around four in the morning on 22 march 2022 somebody went through the vip groups on wechat and dissolved them one at a time. by the time students woke up...
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2022-03-16
F1 Delta Time (2019 - 2022)
four hundred and fifteen ether, about a hundred and thirteen thousand dollars, for a car that existed only as a token. f1 delta time held the official formula...
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2022-03-15
Findicator (2009 - 2022)
statistics finland closed its own service on 15 march 2022 and put the reason in writing, which almost nobody does: findicator was technically outdated and...
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2022-03-14
Switter (2018 - 2022)
assembly four spun up a mastodon instance in melbourne three days before fosta-sesta passed in the us. for four years switter held the largest online directory...
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2022-03-13
YouTube Vanced (2017 - 2022)
youtube vanced was an unofficial youtube app for android that did the two things google charges a subscription for, removing the ads and carrying on playing...
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2022-03-10
Facebook Campus (2020 - 2022)
in 2004 thefacebook would not let you in without a harvard email. in september 2020 facebook built that wall again on purpose, as a section inside the app...
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2022-03-03
RT America (2010 - 2022)
rt america was the english-language us bureau of rt, the russian state broadcaster owned by tv novosti and produced by t&r productions in washington dc. it...
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2022-03-03
Echo of Moscow (1990 - 2022)
a moscow talk radio station that went on air on 22 august 1990 and spent thirty-one years being the loudest critical voice on russian radio while gazprom-media...
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2022-03-02
Amazon Books (2015 - 2022)
amazon books was the first physical retail concept amazon opened under its own name. the first store launched in november 2015 at university village in...
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2022-03-02
Amazon 4-star (2018 - 2022)
amazon 4-star was the general-merchandise sibling to amazon books, opened in soho manhattan in september 2018 with a simple idea: only stock items rated four...
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2022-03-02
Fitbit Ionic (2017 - 2022)
a smartwatch holds a lithium-ion battery against skin for sixteen hours a day, which is the fact underneath everything that happened here. fitbit's first real...
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2022-03-01
Instagram Hyperlapse (2014 - 2022)
hyperlapse was an iOS-only instagram app that turned shaky phone video into smoothed-out timelapses without any external rig. it launched in august 2014 with...
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2022-03-01
IGTV (2018 - 2022)
IGTV was instagram's long-form vertical video app. it launched in june 2018 with kevin systrom on stage in san francisco, ran for four years, and was killed in...
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2022-03-01
ZDNet Downloads (1996 - 2022)
hotfiles.com came first, in 1996, calling itself the zdnet software library and promising top rated shareware picked by people you trust. the address moved to...
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2022-03-01
Tiexue (2001 - 2022)
on 20 december 2021 a chinese forum with more than ten million registered users turned off the reply button, then spent ten weeks saying goodbye before closing...
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2022-03-01
Chartio (2010 - 2022)
atlassian bought chartio on 26 february 2021 and gave it almost exactly one year. the product was a way for people who could not write sql to drag columns out...
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2022-02-28
User Friendly (1997 - 2022)
a daily webcomic about the staff of a fictional canadian isp called columbia internet, drawn by j.d. frazer under the name illiad from 17 november 1997. it was...
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2022-02-28
Outline.com (2017 - 2022)
nobody ever said what happened. the reader that could strip any article down to its sentences, and incidentally walk past a great many paywalls, simply stopped...
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2022-02-24
Lurkmore (2007 - 2022)
lurkmore was the russian internet explaining itself to itself, a mediawiki encyclopedia of memes and imageboard slang written in the sarcastic voice of the...
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2022-02-24
bash.im (2004 - 2022)
bash.im was the russian internet's quote book, a wall of one-line exchanges lifted out of irc and messenger windows by readers and voted into place by other...
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2022-02-22
Dubsmash (2014 - 2022)
dubsmash was a berlin-built lip-sync video app that hit number one in germany within a week of its november 2014 launch and passed fifty million downloads by...
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2022-02-20
Tivoli Cloud VR (2019 - 2022)
caitlyn meeks and maki deprez both came out of high fidelity, and when high fidelity pulled the plug on its own vr platform in january 2020 they cloned the...
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2022-02-15
Transindex (1999 - 2022)
the money came from a political party foundation, and when communitas stopped paying in the spring of 2021 the newsroom had about ten months left. on 15...
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2022-02-09
TheMarker Café (2007 - 2022)
haaretz's business paper opened a social network in february 2007 and called it a cafe. inside a year a survey put it third among israeli social networks, and...
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2022-02-09
CrowdsUnite (2012 - 2022)
the jobs act cleared congress in april 2012 and suddenly anybody in the united states could try to raise money from strangers online, which meant hundreds of...
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2022-02-03
Firefox Reality (2018 - 2022)
mozilla's web browser for virtual reality headsets. it launched september 18 2018 for oculus go and viveport, later added quest and pico. the pitch was that...
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2022-02-02
Pinger.pl (2007 - 2022)
on the morning of 2 february 2022 pinger.pl began forwarding to pudelek, the gossip site of its owner wirtualna polska. o2.pl had launched it in november 2007...
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2022-02-01
5by5 (2009 - 2022)
on 25 january 2022 the homepage listed thirteen running shows and named a cdn sponsor for the month. seven days later the same address served one sentence and...
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2022-01-31
Diem (Libra) (2019 - 2022)
diem started life as libra, facebook's plan to give billions of people a single global currency they could send as easily as a message. the moment it was...
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2022-01-31
Harry Potter: Wizards Unite (2019 - 2022)
wizards unite was Niantic's attempt to do Pokemon Go again with Harry Potter on top. same idea: walk around the real world with your phone up, find things...
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2022-01-31
LEGO Digital Designer (2003 - 2022)
lego digital designer was a free cad program for lego bricks, and the point of it was that the box on screen never ran out. you built whatever you wanted and...
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2022-01-31
FoodTribe (2019 - 2022)
a car-shaped social network with serious money behind it decided in 2019 that the same software could hold recipes, and launched foodtribe as the sister site....
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2022-01-31
NotebookReview (1999 - 2022)
charles jefferies posted the notice on 22 january 2022, on behalf of what he called a small but dedicated volunteer staff. nine days later notebookreview went...
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2022-01-18
YouTube Originals (2016 - 2022)
youtube originals launched on february 10 2016 as the scripted content tier of youtube red, a six year run by a major streamer trying to be hbo on a youtube...
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2022-01-17
VPNLab (2008 - 2022)
vpnlab sold openvpn access with 2048-bit keys for sixty dollars a year and advertised on dark web forums, which tells you who the customer was, because a...
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2022-01-15
Kataweb (1999 - 2022)
an italian newspaper group built a portal in 1999 and a bank paid the equivalent of 157 million euros for five percent of it, which put the whole company near...
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2022-01-14
Mediavideo (1997 - 2022)
segrate, 27 november 1997: mediaset switched on a teletext service and numbered it from page 100 to page 513. mediavideo then outlasted its own medium's...
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2022-01-11
N26 US (2019 - 2022)
eighteen months after walking out of the united kingdom, germany's biggest neobank walked out of the united states too. the announcement came on 18 november...
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2022-01-05
Android Things (2015 - 2022)
december 2020: google quietly rewrote an faq page to say that the console for its internet-of-things operating system would stop taking new projects on 5...
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2022-01-04
BlackBerry (1999 - 2022)
the corporate phone with the physical keyboard. the qwerty made you faster at email than anyone with a touch screen. it died slowly between 2007 (when the...
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2022-01-04
BlackBerry OS (1999 - 2022)
the operating system that ran the phone every executive kept in a belt holster. it made email in your pocket feel like a decision instead of a toy, and then...
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2022-01-04
Citizen News (2017 - 2022)
citizen news was founded on new year's day 2017 by ten veteran hong kong journalists and ran as a non-profit on reader donations, carrying no advertising. six...
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2022-01-03
癲狗日報 (Mad Dog Daily) (1996 - 2022)
wong yuk-man started a five-dollar hong kong tabloid on 18 march 1996, buried it in july 1998, and brought the name back as a subscription news site on 18...
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2022-01-01
Hot or Not (2000 - 2022)
the website where strangers rated photos of strangers on a 1-to-10 scale. it launched in october 2000 from two berkeley engineers and hit two million page...
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2022-01-01
AngularJS (2010 - 2022)
angularjs was the framework google shipped to define what a single-page web app looked like. misko hevery wrote the first version at brat tech in 2009. google...
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2022-01-01
Keenspot (2000 - 2022)
keenspot was the invite-only premium webcomic network chris and teri crosby launched in march 2000 with darren bleuel and nathan stone. it ran a curated set of...
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2022-01-01
DowneLink (2001 - 2022)
downelink was an american social network for lgbtq people, mostly young and mostly of color, that ran from the early 2000s. mtv networks' logo channel bought...
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2022-01-01
Spray.se (1995 - 2022)
spray was sweden's great dot-com portal, a web company that at the top of the boom was worth around four billion dollars on paper. it ran the spray.se portal...
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2022-01-01
Picsearch (2000 - 2022)
picsearch was an image search engine built by two students in linköping that almost nobody used directly, because it was sold to the portals instead. lycos ran...
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2022-01-01
Howard Johnson's (1925 - 2022)
lake george, new york had the last one, and when it stopped serving in 2022 a chain that carried over a thousand restaurants in 1975 was down to zero. howard...
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2022-01-01
RedditGifts (2009 - 2022)
bill gates did it five years running, under the username thisisbillgates. that is the detail everybody remembers about redditgifts, which began in 2009 as a...
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2022-01-01
SpaceCollective (2007 - 2022)
rene daalder died on the last day of 2019 in ventura county, california, and the website he had started with folkert gorter at the end of 2007 kept running...
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2022-01-01
Breaker (2016 - 2022)
twitter announced on 4 january 2021 that it had bought the team behind breaker to work on spaces, and that the app itself would be switched off on the...
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2021-12-31
iTunes U (2007 - 2021)
free stanford and mit lectures on your ipod nano, downloaded over a 2008 broadband line and shuffled in with podcasts. itunes u was the early delivery layer...
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2021-12-31
Smartisan (2012 - 2021)
luo yonghao founded smartisan in beijing in may 2012 as a chinese phone brand built around obsessive industrial design. smartisan OS layered on android with...
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2021-12-31
ESPN Classic (1995 - 2021)
espn classic was the twenty four hour sports archive channel that pulled old ncaa games and yankee reruns out of the tape vault and stacked them into a linear...
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2021-12-31
Fusion TV (2013 - 2021)
fusion tv was a us cable channel joint-owned by abc news and univision when it launched on 28 october 2013. it targeted english speaking millennials with a...
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2021-12-31
Microsoft Academic (2016 - 2021)
microsoft academic was microsoft research's third attempt at searching the scientific literature, launched in february 2016 on top of a machine-extracted graph...
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2021-12-31
Amazon Prime Now (2014 - 2021)
prime now was amazon promising that the thing you ordered would be at your door before the afternoon was over. it ran out of small warehouses rented inside...
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2021-12-31
Asymetrix ToolBook (1990 - 2021)
paul allen founded asymetrix in 1984 and toolbook was its large idea, hypercard for windows, with an object-oriented scripting language called openscript that...
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2021-12-31
NBC Sports Gold (2016 - 2021)
nbc sports gold opened in june 2016 as a single cycling pass at thirty dollars a year, sold to the small number of americans who wanted every stage of the tour...
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2021-12-31
LINE TV Thailand (2014 - 2021)
forty million people in thailand used it, which in a country of seventy million is most of the internet. line tv arrived on android on 28 october 2014 and gave...
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2021-12-31
Areamobile.de (2002 - 2021)
1.4 million visits a month and a place in germany's top 500 websites were not enough to keep it open. areamobile.de reviewed mobile phones in german from 2002...
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2021-12-30
ShoutEngine (2013 - 2021)
midnight pacific on december 30th 2021, and the notice had been sitting on the homepage for weeks already. chris hayes built a podcast host out of having...
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2021-12-29
Stand News (2014 - 2021)
stand news opened on 30 december 2014, six months after its founder closed his previous hong kong outlet saying he feared for his safety. it ran on reader...
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2021-12-24
XS4ALL (1993 - 2021)
people out of the hacker magazine hack-tic put the dutch public on the internet in 1993 and then spent a decade arguing in court on their own customers' side,...
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2021-12-23
Threads (Instagram, 2019 app) (2019 - 2021)
instagram's first-attempt standalone messenger, tied strictly to your Close Friends list. shipped october 2019 as a private-share companion to the main app,...
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2021-12-23
GarfieldEats (2019 - 2021)
995 bloor street west in toronto spent a year and a half selling a cat-shaped pizza under neon orange sauce. garfieldeats was an app before it was a...
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2021-12-21
Assassin's Creed Identity (2016 - 2021)
a single player game with no offline mode is a rental, and ubisoft stopped paying the rent on 21 december 2021. identity sat in soft launch in new zealand and...
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2021-12-15
Sarahah (2016 - 2021)
sarahah was the anonymous-feedback app that went vertical in july 2017 and crashed back down inside a year. saudi founder zain-alabdin tawfiq built a question...
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2021-12-14
Sourcetrail (2015 - 2021)
eberhard gräther spent a month shipping a feature he had estimated at two hours, because first he had to work out what chrome was already doing. sourcetrail...
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2021-12-13
Firefox Lockwise (2018 - 2021)
firefox lockwise was mozilla's standalone-mobile-app version of the password manager already inside firefox. it shipped as test pilot "lockbox" on 26 july...
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2021-12-12
Google Toolbar (2000 - 2021)
google toolbar was how google moved from a website you typed into to a thing that lived inside your browser. it had a search box and a pagerank meter that...
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2021-12-09
AnimeLab (2014 - 2021)
madman entertainment held the australian and new zealand anime rights, so it built a streaming service that would only load for australians and new zealanders....
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2021-12-08
Anime on Demand (2007 - 2021)
anime on demand opened on 7 september 2007 in berlin, built by the distributor av visionen. it was the first legal way to stream anime in german. it carried...
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2021-12-07
Zopa (P2P) (2005 - 2021)
the world's first peer-to-peer lender ran from march 2005 to december 2021. about six billion pounds of retail loans routed through in that time. pandemic...
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2021-12-07
Moonfruit (2000 - 2021)
a london site builder launched in january 2000 on advertising money and survived the crash by turning itself into a subscription. by the end of 2012 people had...
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2021-12-05
SalamWeb (2019 - 2021)
fifteen million dollars went into a chromium fork that tried to make the web safe for muslim families, with a three layer content filter and prayer times in...
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2021-11-30
Livefyre (2009 - 2021)
livefyre sold publishers a comment section that updated while you were still reading it. from 2009 it replaced the refresh-and-see-what-happened thread on a...
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2021-11-30
Hungarian Spectrum (2007 - 2021)
a historian who fled hungary in december 1956 and spent her career at yale started a blog in june 2007 explaining hungarian politics, in english, to people...
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2021-11-19
Microsoft Channel 9 (2004 - 2021)
in 2004 microsoft was a company developers did not like and did not trust. channel 9 was the answer somebody inside came up with: point a handheld camera at...
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2021-11-18
Catan: World Explorers (2020 - 2021)
niantic announced it in 2019 and put it into early access in july 2020, in four countries and nowhere else. the idea was to lay catan's resource hexes over the...
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2021-11-05
Your News Update (2019 - 2021)
two years and a fortnight is what google gave it. your news update arrived in november 2019 as the assistant's attempt at a bulletin that assembled itself,...
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2021-11-01
Next Big Sound (2009 - 2021)
four students turned a northwestern class assignment into the machine that could see a hit coming. by 2014 it called more than eighty percent of the artists...
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2021-11-01
Dr. Mario World (2019 - 2021)
nintendo took a 1990 puzzle game about pills falling down a bottle and made a phone game where the pills float up. released july 2019 in fifty nine territories...
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2021-11-01
Centaur Technology (1995 - 2021)
glenn henry spent twenty-one years at ibm and then ran research for dell, and in april 1995 he left to prove that a small team in austin could design an x86...
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2021-11
Twinity (2008 - 2021)
twinity was a berlin-built 3d virtual world that started by cloning real cities at scale. you walked a low-poly berlin in 2008, then a low-poly singapore,...
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2021-10-31
Mesosphere DC/OS (2016 - 2021)
kubernetes won and this is what the losing side looked like. mesosphere raised something near $126 million to sell the idea that a datacenter should behave...
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2021-10-31
Magic: Legends (2021 - 2021)
stephen ricossa had to write the sentence that the vision for this game had missed the mark, three months into its own open beta, after four years of...
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2021-10-31
fastSWF (2012 - 2021)
adobe set the date and everybody else kept it. fastswf spent nine years as the place you dropped a .swf when you needed a link to send somebody, and once flash...
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2021-10-31
x.ai (2014 - 2021)
bizzabo bought x.ai in june 2021 for the scheduling engine and switched off the product that made it famous five months later. amy ingram answered email like a...
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2021-10-30
DemoDrop (2013 - 2021)
premium subscriptions covered the servers and could not cover a developer, so the man who built demodrop in 2013 wrote two paragraphs on medium in august 2021...
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2021-10-26
CleVR (2000 - 2021)
adobe switched flash off on the last day of 2020 and started blocking content on 12 january 2021. clevr was a panorama site whose stitcher was an adobe air...
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2021-10-24
ourWorld (2008 - 2021)
a flash virtual world where you built an avatar and played little games for coins and gems. flowplay ran it for thirteen years starting in 2008, long enough...
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2021-10-23
10.or (2017 - 2021)
huaqin technology builds phones that leave the factory wearing other companies' names, and in september 2017 it put its own name on one and sold it in india,...
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2021-10-22
Terça Livre (2014 - 2021)
terça livre started in 2014, run by allan dos santos and italo lorenzon, and grew into the loudest bolsonarista media operation in brazil. its slogan was the...
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2021-10-18
Astellia (2019 - 2021)
the announcement said 29 october 2021. the servers went off on the 18th instead and the steam post was edited to match, so the official closing date and the...
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2021-10-15
Alitalia (1946 - 2021)
roughly thirteen billion euros of italian state money went into this airline across seven decades and none of it bought a profitable position that held. the...
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2021-10-12
Microsoft Silverlight (2007 - 2021)
microsoft silverlight launched on september 5, 2007 as a browser plug-in to compete with adobe flash. it ran rich internet applications through a subset of.net...
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2021-10-12
Winds (2016 - 2021)
boulder, colorado, 2016: a feeds-as-a-service company wrote a beautiful rss reader to show what its own api could do, open sourced the whole thing, and ran a...
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2021-10-09
Houseparty (2016 - 2021)
houseparty was a group video chat app that you joined casually, without scheduling. you opened the app and saw which friends were already in a "house" call,...
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2021-10-07
jQuery Mobile (2010 - 2021)
jquery's touch-optimized ui framework for mobile web apps. it shipped october 16 2010, on top of the jquery core that already powered half the web. the final...
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2021-10-07
YouTube Rewind (2010 - 2019)
youtube rewind was the platform's annual year-in-review tradition that ran from december 2010 through december 2019. the 2018 edition picked up more than 20...
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2021-10-06
Ruqqus (2019 - 2021)
ruqqus was an open-source reddit clone that launched in late 2019 with a free-speech pitch and a familiar layout. it caught a brief wave in june 2020 when...
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2021-10-05
AppCache (2008 - 2021)
the standard way to make a web page work offline for most of a decade, and the thing every developer who touched it warned the next one about. you listed your...
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2021-10-04
MonoDevelop (2003 - 2021)
monodevelop started in 2003 as a port of a windows ide to linux, so that people writing c# outside microsoft had somewhere to write it. it worked well enough...
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2021-10-03
TenFourFox (2010 - 2021)
cameron kaiser maintained a fork of firefox for power mac hardware apple had already abandoned, alone and in his evenings, from late 2010 until october 2021....
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2021-10-01
Sphero Disney Droids (2015 - 2021)
sphero's licensed star wars droids were rolling app-controlled toys built off the sphero ball platform. bb-8 launched alongside the force awakens, r2-d2 and...
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2021-10-01
Gadu-Gadu (2000 - 2021)
łukasz foltyn shipped the first version of gadu-gadu on 15 august 2000 from a small operation that grew into the company sms-express, later bought by o2.pl and...
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2021-10-01
Ozy Media (2013 - 2021)
ozy media was a digital media startup that ran a daily newsletter and a talk show hosted by its founder carlos watson, who booked big-name guests and threw a...
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2021-10-01
Backup and Sync (2017 - 2021)
for four years there was exactly one google program that put your drive files and your photo backups under the same folder on your own disk. it shipped on 12...
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2021-09-30
Google Bookmarks (2005 - 2021)
google bookmarks lived inside the bookmarks.google.com subdomain for sixteen years without ever being absorbed into chrome or anything else google ran. it was...
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2021-09-30
LinkedIn Stories (2020 - 2021)
nineteen months is the whole life of linkedin stories. a brazil pilot in february 2020 grew into a global rollout with the september redesign, and linkedin...
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2021-09-30
Zeroshell (2006 - 2021)
two hundred thousand installations and one maintainer. fulvio ricciardi wrote a linux distribution that turned a spare pc or a raspberry pi into a router with...
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2021-09-29
Koduj24.pl (2016 - 2021)
magdalena jethon had run trójka, one of polish radio's national stations. in june 2016 she launched a news portal for the komitet obrony demokracji, the street...
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2021-09-26
Adobe Business Catalyst (2004 - 2021)
business catalyst was an australian all-in-one hosted CMS that adobe bought in '09. for the next decade it shipped as the dreamweaver-adjacent answer for...
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2021-09-24
Ask Me Another (2012 - 2021)
two hundred and sixty two episodes came out of a bar room in brooklyn, with a comedian asking the questions and jonathan coulton rewriting pop songs into...
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2021-09-21
YanukovychLeaks (2014 - 2021)
on 22 february 2014 the president of ukraine left his estate in a hurry and a quantity of his paperwork went into the kyiv reservoir. divers brought up 174...
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2021-09-17
Lola.com (2015 - 2021)
a boston office near south station closed in september 2021 with two shutdown dates a couple of days apart, the spend product on the fifteenth and the travel...
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2021-09-08
Adobe Prelude (2012 - 2021)
onlocation died because video went tapeless, and prelude shipped on 7 may 2012 to do the job tapeless footage actually created: pull the card, tag every clip...
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2021-09-07
Primephonic (2014 - 2021)
primephonic was the classical-only streaming service for the people who could not stand what spotify and apple music did with beethoven, where searching for...
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2021-09-05
XTube (2006 - 2021)
xtube was the first adult site to import the youtube-style user-upload model on a serious scale. it launched on march 12 2006 out of ontario as a webnovas...
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2021-09-02
Locast (2018 - 2021)
a washington lawyer spent three years testing whether a nonprofit could retransmit free over-the-air television over the internet without paying the...
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2021-09-01
Adobe Brackets (2014 - 2021)
brackets was adobe's mit-licensed code editor for front-end web designers, written in the same web languages it edited. it shipped 1.0 in november 2014 with...
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2021-09-01
Google Sites Classic (2008 - 2021)
classic google sites was the closest thing google ever shipped to a free webpage builder for normal people. it was a 2006 jotspot acquisition turned into a...
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2021-09-01
Souq.com (2005 - 2021)
souq was the arabic-speaking gulf's amazon before amazon bought it. ronaldo mouchawar started it in dubai in october 2005 as a maktoob auction site, pivoted to...
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2021-09-01
Quickflix (2003 - 2021)
quickflix started in perth in 2003 as a dvd-by-mail rental business modeled on early netflix, then launched streaming in october 2011 and became the first real...
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2021-09-01
Lonely Planet Thorn Tree (1996 - 2021)
the thorn tree opened on lonelyplanet.com in 1996 and took its name from a tree in a nairobi hotel courtyard that travelers had been pinning notes to since...
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2021-09-01
Nearby Live (2010 - 2021)
nearby was a live list of whoever happened to be standing near you, written by one developer named brian hamachek and launched in june 2010 on windows mobile...
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2021-09-01
Play.fm (2004 - 2021)
georg hitzenberger started it in vienna in 2004 as a place to put dj sets and radio shows where people could listen to them in full, and it grew into an...
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2021-09-01
Flixwagon (2008 - 2021)
in 2008 you could put live video on the web straight off a nokia phone, and a small company in bnei brak was one of the few places that let you. flixwagon...
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2021-09-01
Yandex.Efir (2018 - 2021)
in the spring of 2021 yandex moved every эфир creator across to дзен. the view counts survived the move and the subscriber lists were gone by the end of it,...
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2021-09-01
Gossip Cop (2009 - 2021)
a rating of 0 meant the tabloid had made it up and a 10 meant the tabloid had it right, and for twelve years that scale was the whole product. michael lewittes...
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2021-08-31
Excite Mail (1997 - 2021)
a webmail brand that outlived the portal that made it famous by twenty years. excite launched free mail in july 1997 next to yahoo and rocketmail and hotmail....
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2021-08-31
PlayStation Video (2008 - 2021)
sony opened a video store inside the playstation network on 15 july 2008, called it video unlimited under the qriocity brand, then renamed it playstation video...
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2021-08-31
Shift 2: Unleashed (2011 - 2021)
electronic arts pulled five need for speed games from every digital store on 31 may 2021 and turned their servers off three months later, with no warning...
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2021-08-31
FrontlineSMS (2005 - 2021)
one laptop with a phone plugged into it was the whole requirement, which is why this worked in places where nothing else did. ken banks wrote frontlinesms in...
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2021-08-28
Metacafe (2003 - 2021)
metacafe was the israeli pre-youtube video platform that lasted longer than almost any of its peers. founded july 2003 in tel aviv, it ran for eighteen years...
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2021-08-26
Yahoo India (2000 - 2021)
yahoo india was the in.yahoo.com content layer that ran from 2000 through 26 august 2021. yahoo news india, yahoo cricket, yahoo finance india, yahoo...
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2021-08-26
Gotham City Impostors (2012 - 2021)
warner bros. pulled the steam page on 26 august 2021 and said nothing about it to anybody. the game had been free to play since 2012, twelve players a match...
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2021-08-24
Microsoft Hyper-V Server (2008 - 2021)
on 24 august 2021 a microsoft program manager answered a forum question about whether there would be a hyper-v server 2022. the answer was no, 2019 was the...
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2021-08-20
Zynn (2020 - 2021)
two million downloads in a single month, most of them bought with cash. zynn paid you a dollar to sign up and points to keep watching, and it rode that...
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2021-08-20
FloydHub (2016 - 2021)
over a hundred thousand people used it, and that was the problem. floydhub rented gpus by the hour behind a command line simple enough that a model could be...
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2021-08-18
pya! (2003 - 2021)
the first post went up on 15 april 2003 and it was a happy tree friends flash. eighteen years later the same person was still paying for the hosting out of...
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2021-08-15
StartAid (2005 - 2021)
the copyright footer never got past 2006. startaid launched in 2005 as an online bookmark manager with a personal start page attached, shipped a browser...
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2021-08-10
Spectrum.chat (2017 - 2021)
github bought spectrum in november 2018 and ran it for almost three more years before switching the whole site to read only. the product was threaded chat for...
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2021-08-06
Cloob (2004 - 2021)
cloob.com launched on december 21, 2004 as a persian-language social network operated by sabaidea. it arrived just after iran blocked orkut and absorbed much...
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2021-08-04
Whang-od Academy (2021 - 2021)
maria oggay was 104 years old and the oldest mambabatok of the butbut people when a course about her hand-tapped tattooing went on sale for 750 pesos. her...
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2021-08-03
Twitter Fleets (2020 - 2021)
Fleets were Twitter's Stories clone. they appeared as circular avatars above the home timeline, vanished after 24 hours, and were meant to make casual posting...
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2021-08-01
Lightweight Portable Security (2011 - 2021)
the defense information systems agency stopped funding the program in 2021, no other agency volunteered to take it over, and the air force research...
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2021-07-31
Skype for Business (2015 - 2021)
Skype for Business was the corporate IM and conferencing product that lived inside Microsoft Office for fourteen years under three different names. it began as...
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2021-07-31
LG Mobile Communications (1995 - 2021)
lg was the third korean phone brand. the one that was not samsung, and was not the government's htc-adjacent bet either. it made the chocolate, made the...
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2021-07-31
F-PROT Antivirus (1989 - 2021)
eleven viruses is what version 1.13 could find at the end of 1990. two months later the number was 157 families and better than 250 variants, and the dos...
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2021-07-30
Fitbit Coach (2013 - 2021)
fitstar was a video workout app from 2013 that changed the next session based on how the last one went, which in 2013 was enough to sound like the future....
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2021-07-29
Itanium (2001 - 2021)
4 october 1999, intel announced the name, and somebody on usenet had it as itanic before the day was out. the chip was supposed to retire x86 with a new...
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2021-07-27
Nasza-Klasa (2006 - 2021)
nasza-klasa launched on november 11, 2006 from wrocław. four computer-science students at the university of wrocław built a "find your old classmates" social...
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2021-07-25
Vlare (2018 - 2021)
a small youtube alternative built by a handful of ex-vidlii moderators as a side project. beta launched around december 2018, ran clean for about a year and a...
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2021-07-15
Google Tour Builder (2013 - 2021)
tour builder arrived around veterans day 2013 out of google creative lab and google earth outreach, built so that someone who had served could lay their...
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2021-07-15
WWE ThunderDome (2020 - 2021)
nearly a thousand led boards went up around a wrestling ring in orlando in august 2020, and the crowd arrived by video call. wwe's thunderdome handed fans a...
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2021-07-13
SQL Server Compact (2000 - 2021)
on 26 october 2000 microsoft shipped a version of sql server small enough to run on a handheld, and spent the next decade renaming it. sql server ce became sql...
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2021-07-13
FTP in the Browser (1991 - 2021)
chrome 88 switched it off on 19 january 2021 and firefox 90 deleted the code on 13 july, which closed thirty years in which an address bar did not care whether...
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2021-07-05
Sulli Deals (2021 - 2021)
sulli deals was a web app that put photographs of indian muslim women up as fake auction lots, each one labeled a deal of the day. nothing was for sale and...
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2021-07-01
Relatieplanet (2002 - 2021)
chris van tuijl started relatieplanet in 2002 and by 2005 it was the largest dating site in the netherlands, with more than 1.1 million accounts and around...
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2021-07-01
Make School (2012 - 2021)
fifty-five former students filed suit on 1 july 2021, and make school's for-profit arm entered insolvency proceedings the same day. what it had sold them was...
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2021-07-01
Treasuremytext (2003 - 2021)
a maintenance notice went up on treasuremytext.com some time in 2020 and never came down. eight months later the same page was replaced by a goodbye that gave...
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2021-06-30
Google Expeditions (2015 - 2021)
expeditions turned a cardboard viewer and a teacher's phone into a class trip to the reef or the surface of the moon. google shipped it in 2015 as part of the...
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2021-06-30
Firefox Lite (2017 - 2021)
mozilla built a browser for people who counted megabytes, shipped it to indonesia first, and made it out of android's built-in webview because gecko was too...
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2021-06-30
Google Poly (2017 - 2021)
poly opened on 1 november 2017 as a place to find a 3d model without paying for one. you browsed a library of objects, mostly low-poly and mostly cheerful, and...
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2021-06-30
Minecraft Earth (2019 - 2021)
minecraft earth was mojang's augmented reality game, announced in may 2019 and open to everyone by that december. it put buildplates and resources on a real...
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2021-06-30
DataMarket (2008 - 2021)
a reykjavík company that took the world's public statistics, the kind published by central banks and statistical offices in whatever format the office...
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2021-06-29
MetroLyrics (2002 - 2021)
metrolyrics was a lyrics site founded in vancouver in late 2002 that grew into a 25 million monthly user database of over a million songs. cbs interactive...
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2021-06-28
TV.com (2000 - 2021)
tv.com was where you went to find the air date of the episode you missed or the name of the writer who handled the season finale. it ran on volunteer fans for...
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2021-06-24
GREE (PC) (2004 - 2021)
gree started in february 2004 as a small friends-of-friends social network built by yoshikazu tanaka on the side while he worked at rakuten. it was one of the...
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2021-06-24
Apple Daily (1995 - 2021)
one million copies of the last edition, against a normal print run of about eighty thousand, and people queued overnight to get one. apple daily ran from june...
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2021-06-24
Podiant (2016 - 2021)
mark steadman was a web developer in birmingham who wanted to publish his own podcasts without fighting the tooling, so in 2016 he wrote the tooling. five...
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2021-06-07
FIFA Online 3 (2012 - 2021)
electronic arts built a football game in seoul that was never sold in a box, then gave it away and took the money back on player cards instead. nexon launched...
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2021-06-02
Mobcrush (2014 - 2021)
mobcrush was the most-funded attempt at being twitch for mobile games. it came out of santa monica in 2014, shipped its global ios and android apps on june 21,...
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2021-06-02
Lynda.com (1995 - 2021)
lynda weinman paid thirty-five dollars for a domain in 1995 so her students could find their course notes. twenty years later linkedin paid one and a half...
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2021-06-01
Mindspark Interactive Network (1999 - 2021)
iac's toolbar unit changed its name six times in twenty-two years and never once changed what it sold. the products were free cursors and avatar dolls and...
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2021-06-01
Smiley Central (2002 - 2021)
an emoticon pack for your email was the delivery vehicle. focus interactive shipped smiley central in 2002 as a free download that dropped a few thousand...
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2021-06-01
Phabricator (2010 - 2021)
phacility wound down on 1 june 2021 and left phabricator in what its own maintainer called bare minimum maintenance mode. evan priestley had written it inside...
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2021-06-01
Zync Render (2011 - 2021)
thirteen months after google finished rewriting it from the ground up, the render farm stopped taking customers. zync came out of a boston visual effects shop...
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2021-05-31
NEWSru.com (2000 - 2021)
newsru launched on 28 august 2000 as the web desk of the russian television channel ntv, built by anton nossik under the ntu.ru domain. when the state took the...
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2021-05-31
Hoax-Slayer (2003 - 2021)
brett christensen started hoax-slayer in august 2003 from bundaberg, queensland, and ran it by himself for eighteen years. it existed for one job. you got a...
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2021-05-21
MobiTV (1999 - 2021)
live tv on a phone arrived in the united states in november 2003, cost ten dollars a month on top of a sprint bill, and ran at a frame rate you had to forgive....
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2021-05-18
TUT.by (2000 - 2021)
tut.by was the belarusian internet's front door for twenty years, a portal that was the national news desk and the national mailbox at the same address,...
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2021-05-17
Sawmill (1998 - 2021)
a one-line news post on the front page of sawmill.net, dated 17 may 2021, reads: unfortunately sawmill has gone out of business. [email protected] will...
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2021-05-08
Simple (2009 - 2021)
simple was the us neobank that prefigured chime and varo. josh reich founded it in 2009 with shamir karkal as cfo and alex payne on the technical side. the...
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2021-05-06
Nuzzel (2012 - 2021)
nuzzel was a social news reader founded by jonathan abrams of friendster in 2012. it watched your twitter follow graph, counted how many of the people you...
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2021-05-05
LiveLeak (2006 - 2021)
liveleak hosted the video the cable networks would not show. iraq war footage, the saddam execution clip, russian dashcam crashes, every bodycam shooting...
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2021-05-05
MeriStation Zonaforo (2000 - 2021)
forty-five million posts went out with two days of warning. zonaforo had been meristation's forum since 2000, and the closing notice posted on 3 may 2021 gave...
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2021-05-04
Yahoo Answers (2005 - 2021)
the community q&a site where you typed a question into a textbox and strangers answered. peaked around 2008-2012 with billions of questions posted. became...
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2021-05-01
Bintray (2013 - 2024)
gradle counted over a million git repositories on github with jcenter in their build files. jfrog announced the shutdown on 3 february 2021 and bintray went...
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2021-04-30
Zaarly (2011 - 2021)
a 2011 startup weekend idea that promised a real-time bazaar for anything you wanted done nearby. kleiner perkins put in $14 million. the demand side never...
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2021-04-30
Yooz (2015 - 2021)
iran wanted a search engine that sanctions could not reach, and paid at least seven billion tomans for one. yooz went up in february 2015 claiming a billion...
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2021-04-30
CUE! -See You Everyday- (2019 - 2021)
sixteen rookie voice actresses, several of them debuting here, were hired to play sixteen characters trying to become voice actresses, and the game they did it...
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2021-04-30
Jexia (2015 - 2021)
four million euros arrived in 2019 and a third of the staff were gone by march 2020. jexia was a dutch backend-as-a-service, the kind of platform a small team...
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2021-04-30
Firefox for Fire TV (2017 - 2021)
amazon and google spent the end of 2017 refusing to carry each other's products, and when google pulled the youtube app off fire tv, amazon's answer was to...
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2021-04-29
Defiance (2013 - 2021)
defiance was an mmo trion worlds shipped on april 2 2013 to run in parallel with a syfy tv show that premiered fifteen days later. the transmedia experiment...
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2021-04-26
Gears Pop! (2019 - 2021)
gears pop! put the gears of war cast into funko vinyl proportions and dropped them onto a clash royale playfield. it shipped on 22 august 2019, a month ahead...
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2021-04-21
Thodex (2017 - 2021)
thodex was a turkish crypto exchange that put up a maintenance notice on 21 april 2021 and never took it down. by then its founder was on a flight to albania....
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2021-04-20
Maopu (1997 - 2021)
maopu, mop.com, started in october 1997 as a hunan-based game community run by a netizen with the handle "mop". it became a general forum at the end of 2004...
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2021-04-20
Mop.com (1997 - 2021)
october 1997, changsha. a young man signing himself mop put up a board about game cheats, and within a decade it was the place chinese internet slang was...
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2021-04-19
Manga Entertainment (1991 - 2021)
manga entertainment was a video label island records started in london in 1991, and the first thing it put out was akira. it sold japanese animation to british...
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2021-04-09
Logitech Harmony (2001 - 2021)
harmony began in 2001 as easy zapper, a canadian remote that could control your entire home theater stack from one wand. logitech bought it in 2004 for $29...
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2021-04-07
Madefire (2011 - 2021)
madefire spent ten years building a digital comics platform around motion books, a format that animated panel transitions and added audio cues to traditional...
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2021-04-07
Warez-BB (2005 - 2021)
one person held the server passwords and the database, and in late 2020 that person fell seriously ill. that is the whole story of how warez-bb ended. the...
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2021-04-05
LG Wing (2020 - 2021)
the wing was the last swing of a phone business that had already stopped believing in itself. a t-shaped swivel with a small square screen underneath the main...
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2021-04-01
Yippy (2004 - 2021)
yippy was the metasearch engine that grouped its results into named folders on the left rail. it started life as clusty in october 2004, built by vivisimo out...
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2021-04-01
SIE Japan Studio (2005 - 2021)
sie japan studio was sony's oldest internal development group and it made ico and shadow of the colossus, later gravity rush, plus a large amount of the...
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2021-04-01
Super Mario Bros. 35 (2020 - 2021)
nintendo dropped thirty five people into the 1985 super mario bros. simultaneously and let them shovel goombas at each other. free for switch online members...
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2021-04-01
Oculus Rift (2012 - 2021)
palmer luckey was nineteen when the kickstarter went up on 1 august 2012 and roughly 2.4 million dollars came back for a headset built out of a phone screen...
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2021-03-31
Periscope (2015 - 2021)
for a couple of years live streaming from a phone was its own moment. periscope was the app for that moment. twitter bought it before the public launch, ran it...
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2021-03-31
Yahoo SiteBuilder (2003 - 2021)
yahoo sitebuilder was a windows desktop application bundled free with yahoo small business hosting plans. it shipped around 2003 as a drag-and-drop site editor...
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2021-03-31
Super Mario 3D All-Stars (2020 - 2021)
nine million copies in six months, and then nintendo pulled it on purpose. super mario 3d all-stars put three of the most important 3d platformers ever made on...
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2021-03-31
Super Mario Maker Bookmark (2015 - 2021)
december 2015 bolted a website onto a game that had already been out for three months. you browsed strangers' mario levels from a laptop, signed in with a...
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2021-03-31
buddybuild (2015 - 2021)
vancouver, 2015. a team out of microsoft and amazon built the thing every mobile developer wanted: one place that took your repository and handed back a tested...
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2021-03-31
Azlo (2018 - 2021)
pnc agreed to buy bbva's american business in november 2020, and two months later the parent closed both of the us digital banks it owned. azlo had been built...
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2021-03-30
Inkstone News (2018 - 2021)
the front page of inkstonenews.com still shows a friday in december 2018, six stories deep, with a feature about competitive pole sport at the top of it. the...
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2021-03-29
Classilla (2009 - 2021)
cameron kaiser maintained a web browser for an operating system apple had walked away from. classilla was mozilla 1.3.1 kept walking, released in 2009 and...
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2021-03-29
Demi.fi (1998 - 2021)
a-lehdet announced on 2 february 2021 that it was closing demi, the finnish teen magazine it had published since 1998, and the forum at demi.fi went with it....
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2021-03-24
QuizUp (2013 - 2021)
quizup was an icelandic trivia app that put two strangers against each other over seven rounds of timed multiple choice. it took twenty million users within...
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2021-03-18
Harmontown (2012 - 2021)
a comedy writer rented the back room of a comic shop on sunset in 2011 and started holding court once a month, with a dungeon master pulled out of the...
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2021-03-16
iAuthor (2013 - 2021)
on 5 december 2020 somebody at an address in ealing filed form ds01, the short document a company uses to ask the registrar to delete it. the first notice went...
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2021-03-12
Apple HomePod (1st generation) (2018 - 2021)
the homepod sounded better than any speaker at its price, costs more than anyone wanted to pay for siri, and arrived a year late. apple discontinued it in...
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2021-03-09
HuffPost Québec (2012 - 2021)
on the morning of 9 march 2021 the staff were working. by the afternoon buzzfeed had stopped publication at huffpost canada and huffpost québec and laid off...
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2021-03-07
The COVID Tracking Project (2020 - 2021)
on 7 march 2020 two atlantic journalists merged their covid spreadsheet with a data scientist's, and the covid tracking project existed. for the next year...
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2021-03-03
Google Cardboard (2014 - 2021)
google cardboard was a fold-up viewer made of literal cardboard, with two cheap plastic lenses and a slot for a smartphone. you opened the google cardboard app...
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2021-03-02
Simply Audiobooks (2003 - 2021)
burlington, ontario, 2003. a subscription company started mailing audiobooks on cd to american and canadian houses with no due dates and no late fees, the...
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2021-03-01
Gapyear.com (1998 - 2021)
gapyear.com was a message board with an industry built around it. peter pedrick and tom griffiths put it online in july 1998 to answer the same questions over...
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2021-03-01
Windows Embedded Automotive (1998 - 2021)
for twenty-two years there was a windows machine in the dashboard and most of the people driving it never found out. microsoft's auto pc shipped on 4 december...
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2021-03-01
TLS 1.0 (1999 - 2021)
rfc 2246 landed in january 1999 and was mostly netscape's ssl 3.0 with a new name and a few corrections, which is why so much of the web ran on it for the next...
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2021-02-28
PictureTrail (1999 - 2021)
picturetrail started in 1999 in santa clara as an online photo album and turned into something more useful than that: the place people kept the pictures they...
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2021-02-28
Ge.tt (2010 - 2021)
53.3 million files from 6.9 million users was the count on the homepage the week it closed. the danish service had spent a decade on one trick: the upload...
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2021-02-26
Griddy (2017 - 2021)
ercot took griddy's members on 26 february 2021 and the company was finished by the same afternoon. the product was a $9.99 monthly membership that bought you...
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2021-02-24
Fry's Electronics (1985 - 2021)
fry's was a us pc-parts chain whose stores were theme-park sets dressed up as a giant motherboard or a 1950s ufo crash site, with a grocery-store aisle full of...
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2021-02-19
MiTalk (2010 - 2021)
mitalk was xiaomi's messaging app, and its whole tragedy is timing. lei jun shipped it in december 2010, a full month before tencent shipped wechat, and for a...
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2021-02-18
YouTube Space (2012 - 2021)
free studio time, in a real building, for anyone with enough subscribers to qualify. youtube opened the first one in london in 2012 and got to ten cities by...
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2021-02-17
Bimeks (1990 - 2021)
kadıköy, around 1990. two brothers opened a shop selling computers, and it grew into the first technology retail chain in turkey and then the first one listed...
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2021-02-09
plug.dj (2012 - 2021)
turntable.fm walled its dj rooms to the united states, so plug.dj built the same idea for everyone else. you got an avatar in a pixel room and a queue of...
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2021-02-05
Xiami Music (2006 - 2021)
xiami was the chinese music streaming service known for its detailed genre tagging and its indie catalog. it launched in 2006, was acquired by alibaba in...
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2021-02-05
Halo Sport (2016 - 2021)
headphones with foam spikes in the headband that pushed two milliamps through the motor cortex for twenty minutes before training, on the theory that a primed...
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2021-02-04
The Overtake (2017 - 2021)
leeds, october 2017. robyn vinter started a news site for people in their twenties who were not in london and could not see themselves in the papers that were,...
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2021-02-03
YYeTs (人人影视) (2003 - 2021)
fourteen people were detained in shanghai in january 2021 and a subtitle group that had been running since 2003 was finished. yyets began with a handful of...
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2021-02-01
Ekiga (2000 - 2021)
ekiga, first known as gnomemeeting, was a free software voip and video calling app for the gnome desktop, built by damien sandras out of a graduation thesis...
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2021-02-01
Eventful (2004 - 2021)
brian dear founded evdb in la jolla in january 2004 and renamed it eventful in september 2005. underneath it was a searchable database of concerts and...
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2021-02-01
Banjo (2011 - 2021)
banjo launched on 22 june 2011 as an app that read the public geotagged posts around you and told you which of your friends were already at the same bar. by...
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2021-02-01
Akazoo (2008 - 2021)
38.2 million registered users and 4.6 million paying subscribers were the numbers akazoo carried onto nasdaq in september 2019, through a spac run by a former...
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2021-02-01
Motiv Ring (2017 - 2021)
april 2020, in a blog post and an faq on its own site: the current generation of rings will continue to function, and yes, the app will remain available...
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2021-01-31
Battleborn (2016 - 2021)
gearbox shipped battleborn on 3 may 2016 as a hero shooter with a first-person moba layer. overwatch shipped three weeks later. by july the concurrent count on...
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2021-01-31
SecretBuilders (2008 - 2021)
31 january 2021 is the date on the goodbye note, and adobe flash is the reason it had to be written. secretbuilders launched in december 2008 as a virtual...
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2021-01-31
ROSS Intelligence (2014 - 2021)
thomson reuters filed in delaware on 6 may 2020, and ross intelligence announced its own closing seven months later on 11 december 2020. the platform went dark...
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2021-01-28
So-net U-Page+ (2002 - 2021)
ten megabytes free, and five more for a hundred yen a month if you ran out. that was the deal sony's isp offered its subscribers from july 2002, and it held...
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2021-01-26
Tilt Brush (2016 - 2021)
google bought tilt brush in '15 then shipped the htc vive's killer app the next april. for five years it was the cleanest demo of why room-scale vr might...
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2021-01-26
Byte (2020 - 2021)
byte was vine, tried a second time, by one of the people who built vine. it launched in january 2020 to a huge first week and a wave of goodwill from everyone...
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2021-01-21
DC Universe (2018 - 2021)
dc universe was the standalone streaming experiment that produced titans and doom patrol before warner folded the show side into hbo max. on january 21 2021...
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2021-01-21
Project Loon (2013 - 2021)
loon was the project that put internet service providers in the sky. helium balloons at twenty kilometers altitude with lte radios slung underneath, steered by...
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2021-01-21
Tucows Downloads (1993 - 2021)
tucows downloads was the shareware mirror canon. founded in 1993 in flint, michigan as 'the ultimate collection of winsock software', it grew to over thirty...
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2021-01-19
Google App Maker (2016 - 2021)
in january 2020 google bought appsheet, and two weeks later it announced that app maker was finished. the low-code builder had shipped in november 2016 so that...
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2021-01-12
Bin Weevils (2007 - 2021)
bin weevils was a british virtual world for children, a bin full of little weevils you dressed, fed through minigames, with a nest to decorate and...
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2021-01-12
Peanut Butter Jelly Time (2002 - 2021)
two people posting as ralphwiggum and comrade flynn put a badly pixelated banana on a loop over a chant by a miami dj, and on 21 march 2002 it landed on...
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2021-01-06
Hike Messenger (2012 - 2021)
hike was india's bet on a domestic messaging app, kavin bharti mittal's attempt to do for india what wechat did for china. it raised $250m+ from softbank and...
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2021-01-06
Amazon Prime Pantry (2014 - 2021)
five dollars ninety-nine bought one box, and you filled it: up to forty-five pounds or four cubic feet of the cheap heavy things that never made sense to ship...
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2021-01-05
Family Video (1978 - 2021)
charles hoogland opened the first store in springfield, illinois in 1978 and the family never sold the buildings, which is the whole reason the chain was still...
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2021-01-01
Twitch Sings (2019 - 2021)
twitch sings was a free-to-play streaming karaoke game co-developed by harmonix (the rock band studio) and twitch, released for windows and macos on 13 april...
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2021-01-01
HauteLook (2007 - 2021)
a los angeles flash-sale site that sold designer fashion by the morning email. nordstrom bought it in 2011 for around 180 million dollars and ran it for a...
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2021-01-01
Pipilika (2013 - 2021)
pipilika launched on 13 april 2013 as the first search engine bangladesh had built for itself, written by computer science students at shahjalal university of...
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2021-01-01
Pixlr Editor (2008 - 2021)
ola sevandersson wrote pixlr in sweden alongside a full time job and put it online in the late summer of 2008, a photoshop-shaped image editor with layers and...
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2021-01-01
Manga on Web (2010 - 2021)
shuho sato drew umizaru and say hello to black jack, did not trust the publishers who printed them, and in 2010 built a store to sell manga straight to readers...
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2021-01-01
Galaxiki (2007 - 2021)
jos kirps, working out of luxembourg, built a fictional galaxy in 2007 and then gave the stars away. something over a million solar systems turning in real...
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2021-01-01
Koofers (2008 - 2021)
at virginia tech a koofer is an old exam in the hands of somebody who has not sat it yet. three people from that campus put the practice on a server in 2008,...
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2021-01-01
Holden (1856 - 2021)
a saddlery opened in adelaide in 1856 and ended up building the car australia thought of as its own. general motors bought the company in 1931 and sold holdens...
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2021-01-01
Story Wars (2014 - 2021)
in november 2019 the site posted that it was closing in december. three weeks later a forum thread titled "story wars is saved (officially)" told everyone it...
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2020-12-31
Albino Blacksheep (1996 - 2020)
albino blacksheep launched in 1996 from toronto. steven lerner ran a personal flash portal that became one of the early-2000s viral video hubs on the...
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2020-12-31
Endomondo (2007 - 2020)
endomondo was the run-tracker app people in europe defaulted to before strava took the gps-fitness audience worldwide. under armour paid 85 million dollars for...
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2020-12-31
FarmVille (2009 - 2020)
the facebook game that defined the social-gaming era. you planted a virtual crop, you waited a real-world timer, you came back to harvest. if you forgot, your...
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2020-12-31
Flash games (1998 - 2020)
the browser games that ran in school computer labs, in office break rooms, on home dial-up connections after dinner. miniclip, addictinggames, kongregate,...
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2020-12-31
Adobe Flash (1996 - 2020)
the plugin that ran the interactive web from 2000 to 2010. flash games, flash animation, flash banner ads, flash-based websites with intro animations. steve...
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2020-12-31
Stardoll (2004 - 2020)
the swedish virtual paper-doll site that became the dominant fashion-coded community for tween girls in the late 2000s. it began as paperdoll heaven, a...
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2020-12-31
TiVo (the cultural product) (1999 - 2020)
the DVR that taught a generation of americans that you could pause live TV. launched march 1999. peak around 2006 with about 4 million subscribers. cable...
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2020-12-31
Smack Jeeves (2005 - 2020)
smack jeeves launched in may 2005 in chadds ford, pennsylvania as a free webcomic host built and run single-handedly by daniel liebner. it hosted more than...
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2020-12-31
Google Cloud Print (2010 - 2020)
google cloud print was a 2010 google service that let any device send a print job through google's servers to any printer set up on a user's account. it...
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2020-12-31
El Rey Network (2013 - 2020)
el rey network was the english-language us cable channel that director robert rodriguez launched on 15 december 2013 with a minority stake from univision and...
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2020-12-31
DVD Verdict (1999 - 2020)
april 1999: a lawyer in chicago named sean mcginnis started a dvd review site and made the courtroom joke structural instead of decorative. the writers were...
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2020-12-31
HEX: Shards of Fate (2016 - 2020)
wizards of the coast sued in may 2014, settled in september 2015 on terms nobody has ever published, and five years later the game announced its own closure...
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2020-12-31
fromAtoB (2008 - 2020)
1.5 million searches a month across fifty european rail and coach operators, and it still could not survive a year without travel. three graduates of rwth...
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2020-12-31
Rinmaru Games (2008 - 2020)
on 31 december 2020, hours after adobe flash stopped running, rinmarugames.com replaced its catalog with one painted picture: a woman on the deck of a ship at...
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2020-12-31
USgamer (2013 - 2020)
nine people worked there in early 2020 and four were left by november. reedpop cut the budget and gamer network shuttered its american site at the end of the...
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2020-12-28
J's GOAL (1993 - 2020)
on 1 february 2015 the j.league folded its official fan site into a new corporate site and said it would delete the user data promptly, and nine months later...
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2020-12-25
Voat (2014 - 2020)
voat launched in april 2014 as whoaverse, a hobby project by a swiss developer who thought reddit needed a freer alternative. it became known each time reddit...
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2020-12-21
Questia (1998 - 2020)
questia was for a demographic i was not part of. a chicago-founded paid online library from 1998, aimed at american college students writing citation-heavy...
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2020-12-21
MihanBlog (2004 - 2020)
mihanblog opened on 17 november 2004 and became one of the places persian speakers went to write in public, free, with no english anywhere in the interface. by...
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2020-12-20
Ever, Jane (2016 - 2020)
five hundred dollars a month was the number. that is what the servers and the licenses cost for a jane austen online world, and in december 2020 the studio was...
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2020-12-18
Caliphate (2018 - 2020)
on 18 december 2020 the new york times attached a note to its own award winning podcast saying the episodes built on a canadian man's confession did not meet...
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2020-12-17
HBO Now (2015 - 2020)
the second hbo streaming app. the one for people who did not have cable but wanted hbo on its own at $14.99 a month. launched april 7 2015 with the game of...
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2020-12-15
Yahoo Groups (1998 - 2020)
yahoo groups was a hybrid mailing list and web forum platform. you joined a group, you got every post by email, you could also read or search the archive on...
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2020-12-15
Xinja (2017 - 2020)
eric wilson founded xinja in 2017 as one of the first australian neobanks to chase a full ADI license. it got there in september 2019 and launched accounts in...
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2020-12-13
The Colorado Independent (2006 - 2020)
fourteen years of colorado statehouse reporting ended on 13 december 2020, with two posts published the same day saying the same thing in different words. the...
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2020-12-12
Squad (2019 - 2020)
squad was a mobile screen-sharing app from esther crawford and ethan sutin, the team that had previously built the failed faq app molly. it launched in january...
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2020-12-09
Nimbit (2002 - 2020)
nimbit gave its artists three months of notice and one instruction: copy everything out yourself. four people in framingham, massachusetts had started it in...
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2020-12-03
Google Play Music (2011 - 2020)
google play music launched november 16, 2011 as a free cloud locker that would hold up to 50,000 of your own mp3s and stream them back to any device signed...
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2020-12-01
Quibi (2020 - 2020)
the streaming service that raised 1.75 billion dollars to put ten-minute hollywood shows on your phone vertically. jeffrey katzenberg ran it. meg whitman was...
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2020-12-01
VyRT (2011 - 2020)
jared leto built vyrt in 2011 because streaming a thirty seconds to mars show meant handing it to a sponsor and accepting whatever player the sponsor supplied....
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2020-12-01
Zumi (2007 - 2020)
in poland's largest cities the aerial photos went down to ten centimeters a pixel, enough to make out houses and cars. onet opened zumi in april 2007 as a map...
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2020-12-01
Fooooo (2007 - 2020)
the five o's stood for the five continents and the f stood for find, which tells you how big the ambition was for a japanese video search engine launched in...
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2020-12-01
Encyclopedia ynet (אנציקלופדיה ynet) (2002 - 2020)
in 2007 a paid hebrew encyclopedia decided the way to compete with a free one was to put the words knowledge with responsibility under its own logo. yedioth...
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2020-12-01
OpenGrey (1980 - 2020)
700,000 bibliographic records of the european research output that no publisher ever put a price on: technical reports, doctoral theses, conference papers,...
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2020-12-01
CNET Forums (1998 - 2020)
red ventures bought cnet from viacomcbs for 484 million dollars and closed the deal on 30 october 2020. a month later the forums went read-only, and in early...
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2020-12-01
Google Trusted Contacts (2016 - 2020)
five minutes was the whole design. somebody on your approved list asked where you were, you had five minutes to say yes or no, and if you said nothing the app...
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2020-11-30
FRESH LIVE (2016 - 2020)
tokyo, january 2016: cyberagent opened a live streaming service with 200 channels and called it amebafresh!. over the next 31 months it was passed between...
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2020-11-30
Kidzworld (1999 - 2020)
a vancouver company spent twenty one years running moderated chat for children, which is the least thankful job on the internet, and then posted a goodbye note...
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2020-11-24
Fitlads (2003 - 2020)
grindr took the traffic in 2009 and this thing kept running for another eleven years anyway, which is roughly how long a british forum habit can outlive its...
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2020-11-22
Cordless (2019 - 2020)
discord banned marcel schramm's account on 22 november 2020 for a terms of service violation, which he traced to the way his program opened a private message...
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2020-11-20
Smashcast (2017 - 2020)
smashcast was the brand that came out of the may 2017 merger between hitbox, the open-platform twitch competitor that launched in 2013, and azubu, the...
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2020-11-15
Best Gore (2008 - 2020)
best gore was one of the post-rotten shock sites. mark marek ran it out of edmonton from april 2008. in june 2012 he posted the luka magnotta murder video,...
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2020-11-15
Twitter Fabric (2014 - 2020)
fabric was twitter's bid to matter to mobile developers. it launched in october 2014 around crashlytics, the crash reporter twitter had bought the year before,...
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2020-11-14
Quantopian (2011 - 2020)
on 9 november 2020 quantopian told its community it had five days to copy out nine years of work. the boston company had given a decade of market data and a...
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2020-11-13
The Culling (2016 - 2020)
xaviant put sixteen players on an island in march 2016 and for a few weeks it was one of the most played games on steam. then playerunknown's battlegrounds...
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2020-11-13
Qdaily (2014 - 2020)
on 13 november 2020 it published for the last time and then simply stopped, and the domain has answered with a 502 ever since. yi xianfeng, who helped found...
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2020-11-10
Will It Blend? (2006 - 2020)
will it blend was a blender advertisement that people watched on purpose for fourteen years. tom dickson, who founded blendtec, stood in a lab coat and fed...
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2020-11-09
Crucible (2020 - 2020)
amazon spent six years building a free-to-play hero shooter, launched it on 20 may 2020, pulled it back to closed beta on 30 june, and cancelled it on 9...
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2020-11-02
meTube (2016 - 2020)
indonesia's largest broadcaster opened a video sharing site in 2016 and asked the country to upload itself into it. the interface was youtube's and the uploads...
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2020-11-01
Growl (2004 - 2020)
growl was a notification system for mac os x, written by christopher forsythe and a volunteer team from 2004 onward, and for most of a decade it was how a mac...
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2020-11-01
WinWin (2007 - 2020)
israel's biggest newspaper took its classifieds section off paper on 4 march 2007 and spent millions of shekels putting it on the web under a new brand. winwin...
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2020-11-01
Firefox Notes (2017 - 2020)
eighteen thousand seven hundred and eighty people still have this installed. mozilla switched off the sync and pulled the android app on 1 november 2020, six...
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2020-10-31
Facebook Notes (2006 - 2020)
facebook notes was the long-form text slot inside facebook. it shipped on august 22 2006 as a mini blogging platform with photo embeds, html-ish formatting,...
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2020-10-31
Unseen.is (2013 - 2020)
reykjavik was most of the pitch. unseen sold encrypted mail and chat out of iceland in the years right after snowden, with 4096-bit keys in the marketing and a...
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2020-10-27
Swift 3D (2000 - 2020)
boulder, colorado, 4 april 2000: electric rain starts shipping swift 3d at a hundred and thirty-nine dollars, and for the next five years it is how a flash...
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2020-10-24
Tiddlyspot (2006 - 2020)
dreamhost decided that the thousands of wikis on tiddlyspot were personal backups, which its terms of use forbid, and moved the lot into object storage. that...
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2020-10-20
uBlock Origin Extra (2016 - 2020)
akamai bought certain assets of instart logic in february 2020 for $36.4 million, and by the autumn the request-disguising technology raymond hill had written...
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2020-10-15
The California Sunday Magazine (2014 - 2020)
a sunday newspaper insert launched october 2014 by douglas mcgray and chas edwards, distributed inside the los angeles times and the new york times to reach...
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2020-10-15
Rakuten Deutschland (2007 - 2020)
5,500 german merchants were selling on rakuten.de at the end, against more than 300,000 on amazon.de. the site had begun life in 2007 as tradoria, a bamberg...
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2020-10-01
Adobe PhoneGap (2008 - 2020)
phonegap let web developers wrap html, css and javascript in a native webview and ship it to ios and android as a real installable app. nitobi shipped the...
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2020-10-01
Wanelo (2012 - 2020)
a san francisco social shopping app named after want-need-love. affiliate links, no ads, no acquisition, no dramatic exit. instagram and pinterest put a shop...
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2020-10-01
Curbed (city sites) (2006 - 2020)
curbed was the real-estate blog that scaled itself into a network of city desks. new york first, then los angeles, san francisco, boston, atlanta, chicago,...
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2020-10-01
The Fancy (2009 - 2020)
the fancy was a social shopping site where people collected pictures of objects they liked and could buy them without leaving the page. joseph einhorn built it...
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2020-10-01
DanishBits (2009 - 2020)
a copyright lawyer named thomas heldrup signed up to danishbits as an ordinary member around 2016 and stayed four years, reading the staff threads and working...
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2020-09-30
Logitech Harmony Express (2019 - 2020)
the harmony express was logitech's alexa-driven universal remote. you held a button, you said "watch netflix", a hub on the tv stand fired the right ir blasts...
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2020-09-30
NAVER Matome (2009 - 2020)
naver matome was japan's curation layer, a site where ordinary readers gathered links and pictures about a topic into one page and took a cut of the ad money...
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2020-09-30
Samsung XR (2014 - 2020)
the service was renamed samsung xr in early 2020 and was switched off before the year ended. it had launched on 30 december 2014 as milk vr, a free 360 video...
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2020-09-30
Addendum (2017 - 2020)
dietrich mateschitz paid for three years of austrian investigative journalism and then stopped paying. the announcement came on 4 august 2020 and the operation...
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2020-09-28
Tencent Weibo (2010 - 2020)
tencent weibo launched april 2010 as tencent's microblogging answer to sina weibo, plugged directly into the qq messenger account base. by the second quarter...
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2020-09-28
YouTube Community Contributions (2015 - 2020)
for five years anyone watching a youtube video could write its subtitles and hand them to the uploader for approval, in any language, for nothing. it is how a...
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2020-09-28
Groupon Japan (2010 - 2020)
groupon japan was bought rather than built. a tokyo clone called qpod launched in june 2010 and groupon acquired it two months later, renaming it and running...
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2020-09-21
LyricWiki (2006 - 2020)
lyricwiki was a mediawiki pointed at one job, collecting the words to as many songs as people would type in. it started as a student project in 2006 and grew...
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2020-09-17
Firefox Send (2017 - 2020)
mozilla's encrypted file sharing tool. you uploaded a file up to 2.5 gb and got a link to send. the recipient downloaded once and the file was deleted from...
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2020-09-16
Panic Coda (2007 - 2020)
coda was panic's all-in-one mac web-dev app, the one that bundled an editor with sftp and a terminal so the freelancer who wrote one-page html sites for...
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2020-09-15
Samsung Gear VR (2015 - 2020)
samsung gear vr was a mobile vr headset built with oculus, launched to consumers in november 2015. you dropped a galaxy phone into the front and the phone...
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2020-09-15
Mefeedia (2004 - 2020)
there was no upload button, on purpose. mefeedia launched in 2004 as an index of video you reached by handing it a feed url, and by 2009 that had grown into a...
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2020-09-13
Adobe Fuse (2014 - 2020)
fuse built people out of a parts library. you chose a head and a body, dressed the result from a wardrobe, and pushed it to mixamo, which put a skeleton inside...
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2020-09-09
Kotaku UK (2014 - 2020)
a contract expired on a wednesday and a publication stopped existing. future had licensed the kotaku name from gawker in 2014 and staffed a british edition...
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2020-09-08
Sputnik (Rostelecom) (2014 - 2020)
rostelecom unveiled sputnik on 22 may 2014 at the st petersburg economic forum, a search engine paid for by the state and pitched as the safe place to look...
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2020-09-02
Awok (2013 - 2020)
awok sold electronics and household goods in the uae and saudi arabia at prices nobody else would match, and for a few years it was the largest thing in gulf...
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2020-09-01
Google Hire (2017 - 2020)
google hire was a paid applicant-tracking system for small and medium businesses built on top of gmail and the google workspace stack. it launched in '17 out...
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2020-09-01
Blanja.com (2014 - 2020)
the indonesian state phone company and ebay put a marketplace together and gave it the address of telkom's old portal. six years later telkom's own annual...
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2020-09-01
Tinycards (2016 - 2020)
two hundred thousand decks, made by users, covering everything from spanish verbs to pokemon stats. duolingo built tinycards in 2016 as its first product that...
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2020-09-01
Sky España (2017 - 2020)
on 23 july 2020 sky told its spanish subscribers the service would end on 1 september, and that it would not be billing them for the weeks in between. sky...
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2020-09-01
Earbits (2010 - 2020)
on 16 june 2014 earbits posted a farewell letter and switched the service off. a letter of intent arrived inside forty-eight hours and the ordinary homepage...
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2020-09
Spinlet (2006 - 2020)
spinlet began in tampere in 2006 as a finnish music player that went nowhere. nigerian investors bought it in 2011 and relaunched it out of lagos as the first...
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2020-08-31
Everalbum (2013 - 2020)
a photo-cloud startup found consumer traction with unlimited backup, quietly trained a face-recognition model on user photos with consent toggles that did not...
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2020-08-31
Krovatka.Ru (1997 - 2020)
кроватка began as a chat artyom podstreshny wrote in 1996 and went up under its own name on 29 september 1997, on servers borrowed from radio moscow state...
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2020-08-31
Telex (1933 - 2020)
telex was a switched network of teleprinters, started in germany in 1933 and eventually reaching every country with a post office. you dialed another machine's...
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2020-08-31
Bookogs (2015 - 2020)
in august 2020 discogs switched off four of its own databases on the same day, and bookogs was the biggest of them. a hundred and fifty five thousand books...
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2020-08-26
CarambaTV.ru (2010 - 2020)
on 28 july 2020 sts media bought the last 49 percent of ooo karamba tv. four weeks later the site stopped answering, and by early september carambatv.ru was...
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2020-08-21
Yandex.Aura (2019 - 2020)
german tsarev, who had run big data ad products inside yandex, built the company a social network that introduced strangers by machine and then would not let...
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2020-08-16
Blog.cz (2005 - 2020)
at its peak around 2010 blog.cz held roughly eight hundred thousand blogs and close to two million registered accounts, most of them czech teenagers writing...
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2020-08-14
KissAnime (2012 - 2020)
the largest pirate anime site of the 2010s. eight years of subbed and dubbed catalogs running on a wordpress-shaped frontend, killed two months before japan's...
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2020-08-12
Deathgarden (2018 - 2020)
behaviour interactive already had dead by daylight, so it built the same shape as a shooter. one invincible hunter carrying the only gun in the match, against...
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2020-08-02
Sprint (1899 - 2020)
sprint was the fourth us carrier. it never reached turkey at the carrier layer, where the names on a bill were turkcell or vodafone. when t-mobile bought...
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2020-08-01
Trover (2011 - 2020)
trover was a travel-photo discovery app launched in 2011 by rich barton and jason karas out of seattle. the pitch was a map full of geo-tagged photos from...
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2020-08-01
Pepper (2014 - 2020)
on 5 june 2014 masayoshi son walked a four foot humanoid onto a stage in tokyo and said it could read how people felt. the first thousand consumer units sold...
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2020-07-31
HBO Go (2010 - 2020)
the streaming app for people who already paid for hbo through their cable provider. launched 2010 as a free-with-cable web player and folded into hbo max in...
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2020-07-31
Focals by North (2019 - 2020)
north spent eight years and close to two hundred million dollars getting a display into a pair of glasses that still looked like glasses, and it worked. you...
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2020-07-30
Sorabel (2014 - 2020)
sorabel was an indonesian fashion shop that lived on your phone, cheap women's clothes with a trick attached: the courier waited at your door while you tried...
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2020-07-30
CIAYO Comics (2016 - 2020)
indonesia had a comics industry that never recovered from the nineties, and ciayo tried to restart it by paying artists directly and charging readers nothing....
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2020-07-29
Groovera (2003 - 2020)
an internet radio station with six channels of downtempo and lounge, run from a living room in seattle by one person who broadcast as tommy ohmz and paid for...
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2020-07-24
Echo Look (2017 - 2020)
$200 camera with alexa, sold as the device that would help you decide which outfit to wear. you stood in front of it, took a full-length photo, then the style...
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2020-07-23
Alkışlarla Yaşıyorum (2004 - 2020)
alkışlarla yaşıyorum was the turkish clip site that got its audience because youtube was illegal. fatih aker started it in august 2004, and when the youtube...
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2020-07-22
Microsoft Mixer (2016 - 2020)
mixer was microsoft's twitch competitor. it launched in 2016 as beam, microsoft bought it the same year, then in summer 2019 wrote ninja and shroud big checks...
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2020-07-22
Kongregate (2006 - 2020)
kongregate was the flash games portal jim and emily greer launched in october 2006 as the english-language hub for embedded browser games. at peak it hosted...
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2020-07-22
Yandex.Money (2002 - 2020)
yandex.money launched in 2002 as a joint venture between yandex and the paycash electronic-money operator out of saint petersburg. it became the default...
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2020-07-22
Pokémon Rumble Rush (2019 - 2020)
ambrella had been making the pokémon games nobody counts since hey you pikachu in 1998, and the rumble series of tap-and-collect toy battlers was its longest...
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2020-07-20
Soup.io (2007 - 2020)
soup.io launched in april 2007 from vienna as a tumblelog where one stream pulled in your posts plus everything you reblogged. it had a moment in the german,...
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2020-07-15
Segway PT (2001 - 2020)
the self-balancing scooter that was supposed to remake the way cities were built. dean kamen unveiled it in december 2001 with a level of secrecy and hype...
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2020-07-14
Jing (2007 - 2020)
jing was the free half of camtasia. it lived as a small yellow sun stuck to the edge of your screen, and when you pulled it out you could grab a still or up to...
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2020-07-11
Faking News (2008 - 2020)
a delhi management consultant signing himself pagal patrakar started faking news in september 2008, inventing indian news stories at a time when almost nobody...
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2020-07-10
Facebook Lasso (2018 - 2020)
facebook noticed teens leaving instagram for tiktok and shipped a copy in november 2018. lasso did 15-second music dances, hashtag discovery, the whole format....
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2020-07-10
Hobbi (2020 - 2020)
between seven and ten thousand people installed hobbi, total, across its whole life. facebook's new product experimentation team put it on the ios store on 13...
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2020-07-07
Lightbox (New Zealand) (2014 - 2020)
lightbox was new zealand's first subscription streaming service, launched by the phone company spark in august 2014, six months before netflix arrived in the...
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2020-07-06
UrbanBaby (1999 - 2020)
a married couple in new york started it in august 1999 as a guide for city parents, and the message boards took the site over. every post was unsigned, so the...
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2020-07-01
Microsoft Tellme (1999 - 2020)
tellme was the answer to a question nobody asks anymore. you wanted weather or stock quotes read aloud to you by a computer, and you wanted it without paying...
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2020-07-01
iBooks Author (2012 - 2020)
ibooks author was a free mac app for building interactive ipad textbooks with quizzes and embedded video and 3d widgets. apple launched it at a new york...
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2020-07-01
Trilulilu (2007 - 2020)
trilulilu was the romanian-language youtube clone that sergiu biris and andrei dunca launched 22 january 2007 in bucharest. it ran video and image uploads from...
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2020-07-01
Blogcu.com (2005 - 2020)
blogcu was where turkish blogging happened for people who did not want to run their own anything. beriltech launched it in 2005 as the country's first blog...
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2020-07-01
Bitbucket Mercurial Support (2008 - 2020)
bitbucket launched in 2008 as a mercurial-only host, added git three years later, and by 2019 fewer than one percent of its new users were picking mercurial....
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2020-07-01
mozdev.org (2000 - 2020)
free project hosting for anyone building on top of mozilla, started in september 2000 by two people who thought the browser should be a platform and noticed...
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2020-07-01
Mistergooddeal (2000 - 2020)
two million euros bought a twenty-year-old french e-commerce brand in 2014, which tells you most of what the last decade had been like. mistergooddeal started...
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2020-07-01
Dilidili (2014 - 2020)
wen bote ran it out of fuzhou for six years and got three years and three months for it. dilidili opened in 2014 as 无名小站, bought the name it would die under in...
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2020-07-01
台灣動物新聞網 (Taiwan Animal News Network) (2014 - 2020)
falling donations closed a newsroom on 1 july 2020. the animal protection association of the republic of china had spent four and a half years recruiting and...
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2020-07-01
honestbee (2015 - 2020)
three hundred and nineteen point nine million singapore dollars is what honestbee still owed once the liquidators finished counting, most of it to former staff...
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2020-07-01
Tfile (2006 - 2020)
fourteen years and four domain names, and the thing that finally stopped it was nobody renewing the fight. tfile opened in november 2006, peaked in 2007, and...
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2020-07-01
Tigris.org (2000 - 2020)
collabnet gave the internet twelve weeks of notice, in one line of text across the top of every page on 7 april 2020, naming 1 july as the end. tigris.org had...
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2020-07-01
Flashblock (2004 - 2020)
593,876 firefox users had flashblock installed in january 2016, and 424,955 of them were left by the middle of 2017. philip chee had maintained it since...
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2020-07-01
The Subservient Chicken (2004 - 2020)
april 2004: burger king paid for a web page where a man in a chicken suit did whatever you typed into the box. it is credited with helping reverse years of...
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2020-06-30
Genographic Project (2005 - 2020)
national geographic and ibm started a study in 2005 to map how humans had moved across the planet, then did something unusual with it and sold the public a kit...
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2020-06-30
123 Importados (2020 - 2020)
123 importados opened in january 2020 selling televisions and refrigerators at prices no real retailer could match, took payment by boleto only, and told...
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2020-06-30
Mobius Final Fantasy (2015 - 2020)
square enix put the final fantasy xiii team on a phone game and shipped it in japan on 4 june 2015, then worldwide the following august. it passed 20 million...
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2020-06-30
Suntuubi.com (2006 - 2020)
a free finnish homepage builder opened in 2006 with a guestbook under every gallery and an in-house currency called credits, which you spent on a domain name...
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2020-06-30
CodeFund (2017 - 2020)
no cookies and no tracking pixels: codefund sold ads on open source documentation and refused the mechanisms that make ad tech pay. eric berry started it as...
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2020-06-29
r/The_Donald (2015 - 2020)
a reddit forum created on 27 june 2015, eleven days after donald trump announced his campaign, which grew past 790,000 subscribers and spent five years in an...
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2020-06-29
TikTok India (2017 - 2020)
india was tiktok's largest market outside china, around two hundred million users, and a lot of them were the first people in their family to be on the...
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2020-06-27
Red Light Radio (2010 - 2020)
a former brothel window on the oudekerksplein, directly beside the oldest building in amsterdam, with a desk and two turntables in it. that was the whole...
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2020-06-25
Wirecard (1999 - 2020)
wirecard was a bavarian payment processor that faked the third of its revenue that made it look serious. when the auditor finally refused to sign off on €1.9...
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2020-06-24
iflix (2014 - 2020)
iflix was the kuala lumpur subscription streamer that was supposed to be the regional answer to netflix in southeast asia. it spread across thirteen countries...
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2020-06-23
Oculus Go (2018 - 2020)
the cheap door into standalone vr, and the one that got left behind fastest. the go needed no pc and no phone, just the headset and $199, and for a moment it...
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2020-06-23
ScaleFactor (2014 - 2020)
$103 million went into an austin company selling small businesses automated bookkeeping, and the automation was dozens of accountants in texas and an...
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2020-06-16
National Emergency Library (2020 - 2020)
on 24 march 2020 the internet archive took the waiting list off 1.4 million scanned books and called the result the national emergency library. ten weeks later...
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2020-06-15
Virb (2007 - 2020)
one of the would-be myspace successors of 2007 that never built a user base, pivoted into a paid website builder under media temple, got carried along when...
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2020-06-15
Surgisphere (2008 - 2020)
an open letter with more than two hundred signatures on it, posted on 28 may 2020, is what took this apart. the arithmetic in a lancet paper on...
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2020-06-11
Disney Deluxe (2019 - 2020)
disney deluxe was the streaming service disney ran in japan before disney+ existed there, built with ntt docomo and charged to a docomo account for 756 yen a...
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2020-06-11
三國志曹操伝 ONLINE (Sangokushi Sōsōden Online) (2016 - 2020)
on 11 june 2020 at 11:00 the japanese servers went off, and the korean ones went with them the same day, which is not how regional shutdowns usually work. what...
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2020-06-04
Jet.com (2015 - 2020)
jet.com was the most expensive customer-acquisition deal in walmart's history. marc lore launched it in july 2015 as an amazon-shaped discount marketplace with...
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2020-06-04
SGT STAR (2006 - 2020)
the us army spent at least five million dollars on a chatbot that answered more than ten million recruitment questions over fourteen years. sgt star came out...
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2020-06-01
Topspin Media (2007 - 2020)
beats music bought topspin on march 4, 2014 and sold it on to a private equity firm inside about a month, weeks before apple bought beats for three billion...
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2020-06-01
Samsung S Voice (2012 - 2020)
you said hi galaxy and then you waited. s voice shipped on the galaxy s III in may 2012 as samsung's answer to siri, running on vlingo underneath and later on...
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2020-06-01
Heroes Wiki (2006 - 2020)
nbc did something in 2008 that television networks almost never did. instead of building its own wiki or sending lawyers, it funded the fan one and pointed...
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2020-05-31
Airy Rooms (2015 - 2020)
airy signed up small independent hotels across a hundred indonesian cities, held every partner room to the same seven-point standard and put its own brand on...
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2020-05-31
TSSZ News (1999 - 2020)
at 20:31 utc on 31 may 2020 the longest-running sonic the hedgehog news site was still serving its front page. by 21:54 it was serving a closed notice, and it...
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2020-05-31
Spacewalk (2008 - 2020)
jim whitehurst stood up at red hat summit in june 2008 and said the satellite code was going to the community. what came out of that was spacewalk, the project...
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2020-05-29
Dragon's Prophet (2013 - 2020)
runewaker built a taiwanese mmorpg on one good idea, that the dragons were there to be caught rather than killed, and then handed it to a series of publishers...
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2020-05-28
Automatic (2011 - 2020)
siriusxm paid around a hundred and fifteen million dollars for automatic labs in 2017 and switched the whole thing off at 11:59pm pacific on 28 may 2020,...
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2020-05-27
MapleStory 2 (2015 - 2020)
nexon's voxel-art sequel to the 2003 2d original. korea got it in 2015. the global version launched october 2018 with a cosmetic-only cash shop and a...
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2020-05-27
Wikishuffle (2015 - 2020)
episode 104 arrived on 27 may 2020, three years and four months after episode 103, and the show notes called it a final whimper. the whole format was one link:...
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2020-05-26
Container Linux (2013 - 2020)
a linux distribution with no package manager, built on the premise that a server is disposable and its operating system should update itself without asking...
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2020-05-22
Audience Network (1999 - 2020)
audience was a directv-only prestige originals channel. it launched 25 november 1999 as freeview. it rebranded to the 101 network in 2005 and became audience...
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2020-05-22
10 daily (2018 - 2020)
a television network built a written newsroom for people who had stopped watching television, launched it in may 2018, renamed it five months later in a...
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2020-05-22
Kozmos (2017 - 2020)
google's chrome web store killed kozmos with a robot. azer koçulu built the thing alone in 2017, a bookmarking service where you pressed a heart button in your...
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2020-05-21
Sega Heroes (2018 - 2020)
sega heroes was a match-3 puzzle-rpg mobile game that ran 68 characters from 15 sega franchises through a candy-crush-style grid. demiurge studios developed it...
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2020-05-12
Google Neighbourly (2018 - 2020)
neighbourly let people in indian cities ask the folks nearby the small questions maps could not answer, like which chemist stays open past midnight. google ran...
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2020-05-12
WoWWiki (2004 - 2020)
it started the day after world of warcraft shipped and grew into the biggest thing wikia hosted, four to five million readers a month. then wikia changed the...
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2020-05-07
JUMP Bikes (2010 - 2020)
jump started in 2010 as social bicycles, a brooklyn startup that built dock-free bike share with a lock built into the rear wheel. it rebranded to jump in...
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2020-05-06
Wunderlist (2010 - 2020)
wunderlist was the berlin todo app that figured out how to make a list look pretty on six platforms at once. microsoft bought it in june 2015 for somewhere...
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2020-05-06
Wink Hub (2014 - 2020)
wink shipped in 2014 as quirky's cloud smart-home hub with ge's z-wave gear behind it. by 2017 it had been sold twice, ending up under will.i.am's i.am+...
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2020-05-01
Playster (2014 - 2020)
a montreal subscription service that tried to be netflix plus audible plus a book club plus a game pass, all inside one login and one bill. the audiobook...
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2020-05-01
Official Xbox Magazine (2001 - 2020)
future launched it in november 2001 at the first xbox launch, under a licensing arrangement with the company whose console it reviewed. the american edition...
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2020-04-30
HOOQ (2015 - 2020)
hooq was the singtel-led southeast asia svod product that launched 30 january 2015 with sony pictures and warner bros as the minority partners. it ran across...
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2020-04-30
Moven (consumer bank) (2011 - 2020)
the funding fell through in march 2020 and the consumer bank went with it. brett king had started movenbank in 2011 on the argument that banking was something...
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2020-04-29
Cliqz (2015 - 2020)
a firefox fork plus its own search engine, built and bankrolled by a german media conglomerate to compete with google in europe. it stayed european-coded the...
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2020-04-29
Gameplanet (2000 - 2020)
it grew out of the first counter-strike server in new zealand and became the place the country read about games for twenty years. mighty ape took a controlling...
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2020-04-26
Baidu Hi (2008 - 2020)
baidu hi was baidu's instant messenger for china, announced february 29 2008 and shipped that march. the launch pitch was an msn-style client tightly...
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2020-04-23
Google Contributor (2014 - 2020)
the pitch fit in one sentence. you paid google a few dollars a month, and on sites inside its ad network the ads came out and a pattern of colored pixels went...
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2020-04-23
Manga Rock (2010 - 2020)
muso measured it above the pirate bay for traffic and similarweb put it second in books and literature behind wattpad, which is a strange position for a reader...
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2020-04-17
Stupid.com (1997 - 2020)
gary apple wrote sitcoms for a living, and the shop he started put its own review on the front page: a complete waste of perfectly good technology. it sold...
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2020-04-14
Microsoft Forefront Threat Management Gateway (1997 - 2020)
twenty three years and three names for one job: sit between an office and the internet, and decide what gets through. it arrived as microsoft proxy server on...
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2020-04-13
MSQRD (2015 - 2020)
msqrd was a belarusian ar-selfie app built at a 48-hour minsk hackathon in late 2015 and downloaded fifty million times inside a few months. facebook bought...
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2020-04-12
Free Lossless Image Format (2015 - 2020)
in april 2020 somebody added seven lines to the readme saying development had stopped. flif had spent four years winning compression benchmarks and losing the...
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2020-04-03
The Outline (2016 - 2020)
the outline was joshua topolsky's post-verge attempt at a mobile-first news site for people who liked design more than they liked news. it ran for three and a...
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2020-04-01
SnagFilms (2008 - 2020)
snagfilms gave away documentaries. no subscription and no account needed, just an ad before the film and another one partway through, on a catalog that ran...
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2020-04-01
Slyck.com (2000 - 2020)
slyck existed because in 2000 nobody else was covering file sharing as anything other than a crime beat. ray hoffmann and thomas mennecke started it as...
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2020-04-01
Adioso (2008 - 2020)
two australians spent twelve years trying to build a flight search that took a sentence instead of a form. you typed melbourne to europe late september for...
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2020-04-01
BBC Mixital (2015 - 2020)
more than a million things got made on mixital: doctor who games, and robots in strictly costumes that you programmed to dance using a few lines of html. the...
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2020-03-31
SETI@home (1999 - 2020)
seti@home was a berkeley screensaver that borrowed idle cpu time from home pcs to sift arecibo radio data for narrow-band signals from other civilizations. it...
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2020-03-31
freedb (2001 - 2020)
an audio cd carries no text on it at all, only track lengths. every program that showed you song titles was quietly asking a server somewhere to identify the...
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2020-03-31
American FactFinder (1999 - 2020)
twenty years of census tables sat behind one query form, and on 31 march 2020 the form went away. american factfinder was the census bureau's public front...
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2020-03-31
Fenglin Net (楓林網) (2014 - 2020)
two software engineers with masters degrees from national taiwan university ran the island's largest piracy streaming site out of a flat in taoyuan for six...
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2020-03-31
Yapta (2007 - 2020)
a fire in the pioneer square office on launch morning did not stop yapta's public beta in may 2007. the add-on kept watching an airfare after you bought the...
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2020-03-31
Wikimedia Space (2019 - 2020)
it lived on a test server for its entire life, at an address ending in wmflabs, which is a fair measure of how much the foundation had committed to it....
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2020-03-31
VALU (2017 - 2020)
on 15 august 2017 a japanese youtuber sold off every pseudo-share he had issued in himself, at the top, into the fans who had bid him there. valu had been open...
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2020-03-31
Yahoo! Minna no Seiji (2006 - 2020)
an npo staffed largely by university students ran japan's biggest political accountability site and yahoo japan put its name on the front of it. minna no seiji...
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2020-03-31
UA HealthBox (2016 - 2020)
under armour spent something like seven hundred million dollars buying other people's fitness apps, then decided it also needed hardware of its own to feed...
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2020-03-23
Sansar (2017 - 2020)
linden lab spent four years building sansar as a clean and vr-capable second life. it launched in public beta on july 31 2017, hit a steady but small user...
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2020-03-21
Xiu.com (2008 - 2020)
warburg pincus and kpcb put a hundred million dollars into a chinese luxury fashion store in august 2011, the largest second round the sector had seen there....
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2020-03-20
IncrediMail (2000 - 2020)
incredimail was email for people who wanted email to be fun. it wrapped your messages in animated backgrounds and little cartoon characters that danced when...
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2020-03-18
Rapportive (2010 - 2020)
rapportive was a gmail extension that put a person's face and linkedin profile in your inbox the instant you typed their address. it was the first gmail...
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2020-03-12
Pricesearcher (2016 - 2020)
one point one billion products from more than two and a half thousand retailers, indexed by a crawler built for the job, and not one penny charged to list any...
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2020-03-04
Boosted (2012 - 2020)
the electric skateboard that made the category feel real, then could not survive a tariff. boosted started as a stanford kickstarter in 2012 and shipped...
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2020-03-03
Upthere (2015 - 2020)
western digital bought the whole company in august 2017, ran it for two and a half years, then posted a banner saying the service would end on 3 march 2020....
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2020-03-03
Atrium (2017 - 2020)
justin kan co-founded the company that became twitch and sold it to amazon for $970 million, then spent 2017 to 2020 trying to do the same thing to corporate...
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2020-03-02
Mozilla IRC (1998 - 2020)
at noon eastern on 2 march 2020, irc.mozilla.org was switched off after more than twenty-two years. moznet was where the mozilla project did its synchronous...
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2020-03-01
Webwereld (1995 - 2020)
oscar kneppers came back from silicon valley in 1995 and started a dutch tech news site before most dutch people had a modem. for a while webwereld was in the...
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2020-02-29
Car2Go / Share Now (2008 - 2024)
car2go was daimler's free-floating carshare. it launched in ulm in october 2008, expanded through europe and north america across the next decade, merged with...
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2020-02-29
Aurasma (HP Reveal) (2011 - 2020)
the augmented reality app from autonomy's cambridge office that every classroom worksheet and museum exhibit told you to download for a few years. point the...
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2020-02-28
Chappy (2017 - 2020)
ollie locke launched chappy in 2017 with jack rogers as a gay dating app positioned against grindr's hookup default. bumble backed it from the start and folded...
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2020-02-28
Wandoujia (2010 - 2020)
two hundred million dollars is what alibaba paid in july 2016 for a company that had been valued above one and a half billion two years earlier. wandoujia was...
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2020-02-28
Hello Internet (2014 - 2020)
28 february 2020: episode 136, and then nothing. brady haran and cgp grey had been making an unscripted show about their own work for six years, long enough...
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2020-02-27
Duelyst (2016 - 2020)
a card game where the cards had to stand somewhere. duelyst put a 9 by 5 grid under the whole genre so that position mattered as much as the deck. it was very...
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2020-02-24
Pokémon Global Link (2010 - 2020)
pokemon global link was the companion website that ran competitive ladders and the dream-world layer for gen 5 through gen 7 of the main pokemon games. it...
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2020-02-19
Tencent Dajia (2012 - 2020)
dajia was tencent's long-form opinion platform for chinese liberal intellectuals, launched december 15 2012 under editor-in-chief jia jia. it ran on wechat...
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2020-02-18
Makani (2006 - 2020)
most of a wind turbine is tower. makani started in alameda in 2006 on the argument that a tethered wing flying tight circles does the same work with a fraction...
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2020-02-14
HQ Trivia (2017 - 2020)
hq trivia was a live trivia gameshow that ran twice a day on your phone. scott rogowsky read multiple-choice questions to a few million people at once, and the...
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2020-02-14
HQ Words (2018 - 2020)
hq words was the second game inside the hq app, launched in december 2018, a few days after co-founder colin kroll was found dead in his manhattan apartment....
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2020-02-14
YouTube Doubler (2007 - 2020)
"thanks for all the fun, but after 12 years of good times it's time to say good bye." that line replaced youtube doubler somewhere between 12 and 14 february...
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2020-02-12
Essential Phone (2017 - 2020)
the phone android's co-founder built to out-android google. andy rubin left google, started essential, and in 2017 shipped the ph-1: a titanium and ceramic...
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2020-02-12
AtlasGlobal (2001 - 2020)
the reason the airline gave when it stopped flying in november 2019 was the cost of operating out of istanbul's new airport, on top of a currency that had been...
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2020-02-10
Brandless (2017 - 2020)
brandless was the softbank-funded dtc generics store that priced almost everything at three dollars and used a clean white-label visual to imply you were...
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2020-02-06
One Today (2013 - 2020)
on 27 january 2020 the people still using one today got an email giving them ten days. google.org had launched it in april 2013 as an invitation-only android...
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2020-02-05
Jabong (2012 - 2020)
jabong was rocket internet's fashion store for india, launched in january 2012 out of gurugram and built to the same blueprint the company was running in half...
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2020-02-04
Google Fiber TV (2012 - 2020)
google fiber tv was google selling cable television. nearly two hundred channels over its own fiber, a set-top box, a dvr that could record eight shows at once...
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2020-02-04
HTML Imports (2014 - 2020)
two percent of chrome page loads were still using it when google filed the paperwork to remove it, and most of that two percent was polymer. html imports let a...
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2020-02-02
Virgin Mobile USA (2001 - 2020)
virgin mobile usa was a joint venture between richard branson's virgin group and sprint, incorporated on 18 october 2001 and selling phones from the summer of...
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2020-02-01
FireChat (2014 - 2020)
firechat was the messenger you used when the network was off. it routed messages over bluetooth and peer-to-peer wifi, hopping device to device, no internet...
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2020-02-01
VampireFreaks (1999 - 2020)
vampirefreaks was the goth and industrial subculture's online home for two decades. jet berelson started it in 1999 out of new york as a message board, then...
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2020-02-01
Cool Site of the Day (1994 - 2020)
cool site of the day was glenn davis's link-of-the-day site, the original one-good-link-a-day publication on the web. davis launched it on august 10 1994....
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2020-02-01
Google Station (2015 - 2020)
a program that put free public wifi into railway stations and other crowded places, mostly in india, then across a handful of emerging markets. google built...
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2020-02-01
TV by the Numbers (2007 - 2020)
two people in california started posting nielsen overnights in september 2007 and worked out that the interesting question was not how many watched but whether...
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2020-02-01
Spil Games (2001 - 2020)
190 million people a month were playing browser games on spil games sites in 2012, across more than fifty portals in twenty languages, and almost none of them...
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2020-02-01
Kulmosnet (קולמוסנט) (2003 - 2020)
seventeen years of hebrew writing, none of it paid, edited by volunteers who were not paid either. kulmosnet opened in march 2003 to give people who wrote in...
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2020-01-31
Hudson (2005 - 2020)
a java continuous integration server that one engineer at sun wrote in 2005 and most of the java world ended up running. oracle inherited it along with sun and...
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2020-01-31
yaplog! (2004 - 2020)
japan ran on rental blog services for most of the 2000s, and yaplog was the one for people who had never made a web page. gmo took over a 2001 service called...
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2020-01-31
Canon Irista (2014 - 2020)
canon europe built a cloud that would only take photographs. it launched in june 2014 out of a beta codenamed project 1709, handed out 10 gb free and charged...
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2020-01-31
Highly (2017 - 2020)
twitter took the team in april 2019 and left the product running without them. the apps went first, on 26 april 2019, and the web service limped on for another...
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2020-01-31
Snips (2013 - 2020)
sonos closed the deal on 14 november 2019 and the snips console shut on 31 january 2020, which took with it the easiest way to train a voice assistant in a...
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2020-01-31
ScryptMail (2014 - 2020)
five hundred mailboxes was the opening inventory. sergei krutov announced scryptmail on an email forum in november 2014, promising encrypted metadata and...
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2020-01-30
PlayStation Vue (2015 - 2020)
playstation vue was sony's live-tv-over-the-internet service, launched in march 2015 with around 75 channels and aimed at cable cutters. it peaked near 750...
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2020-01-30
Jumpshot (2010 - 2020)
two friends from tulane built jumpshot in 2010 as a tool for unclogging a slow windows machine. avast bought it in 2013 and kept the name, which by 2015 meant...
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2020-01-23
Hipmunk (2010 - 2020)
adam goldstein and steve huffman launched hipmunk in 2010 as a flight-search site with an 'agony index' that ranked itineraries by total misery rather than...
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2020-01-22
Microsoft Internet Games (2000 - 2020)
windows shipped with a backgammon board that could find you an opponent in another country, and for twenty years it did exactly that. there was no chat, only a...
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2020-01-22
Tanki X (2016 - 2020)
the players would not move. alternativaplatform spent years building a unity client to carry tanki online past flash, shipped it on steam in april 2017, and...
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2020-01-21
Scout FM (2017 - 2020)
by january 2020 the stations had stopped answering. scout fm spent two years building podcast radio for alexa and the phone, hand-picked first and then tuned...
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2020-01-18
TerraServer.com (1997 - 2020)
eliot higgins found out from the error page. the commercial half of the old microsoft terraserver project sold satellite and aerial imagery for a few hundred...
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2020-01-17
HitQuarters (1999 - 2020)
a cpanel account suspension killed this one, which is an undignified way for a twenty year old trade publication to go. hitquarters launched on 20 september...
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2020-01-15
Microsoft Edge Legacy (2015 - 2020)
edge legacy was the browser microsoft built to escape internet explorer. it shipped with windows 10 in july 2015 on a new engine called edgeHTML and a new...
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2020-01-15
Asian Correspondent (2009 - 2020)
one million visitors inside eight months, which for an english language asia desk launched in october 2009 was a real number. asian correspondent ran staff...
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2020-01-15
JPEG XR (2006 - 2020)
two standards bodies approved it and microsoft published a bsd licensed library so that anyone could implement it for free. not one competing browser ever did....
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2020-01-14
Windows 7 (2009 - 2020)
windows 7 shipped october 22 2009 as the apology for vista. it sold over 630 million licenses and held the worldwide desktop crown from 2011 through mid 2018....
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2020-01-14
Microsoft Security Essentials (2009 - 2020)
microsoft security essentials was a free antivirus microsoft released on 29 september 2009 under the codename morro. it was deliberately plain. it took no...
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2020-01-10
Remix 3D (2016 - 2020)
microsoft opened a free 3d model library in october 2016 because paint 3d was about to arrive on every windows 10 machine in the world and would need somewhere...
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2020-01-10
3D Buzz (2001 - 2020)
jason busby died of cancer in 2017 and the company he started did not really survive him. he founded 3d buzz in january 2001 in dickson, tennessee, and spent...
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2020-01-08
Mozy (2005 - 2020)
mozy was a cloud backup service that started in 2005 as berkeley data systems in american fork, utah. emc bought it in october 2007 for 76 million dollars....
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2020-01-08
CollegeHumor (1999 - 2020)
collegehumor went up on 7 december 1999, two friends from baltimore posting jokes for other american undergraduates, and grew into one of the largest comedy...
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2020-01-07
itiraf.com (1999 - 2020)
itiraf.com opened in october 1999, built by ersan özer while he was working at ntv, and it asked turkish visitors for one thing: type the sentence you would...
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2020-01-01
SopCast (2004 - 2020)
sopcast was a chinese p2p streaming client out of the early 2000s peer-to-peer era. you ran a tiny windows app and joined a channel by pasting a sop:// link...
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2020-01-01
Zing Me (2009 - 2020)
zing me was the vietnamese social network vng built and launched in august 2009 off the back of its zing music and zing news portal traffic. on 23 september...
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2020-01-01
Grou.ps (2005 - 2020)
the biggest name to come out of the turkish web 2.0 scene, a build-your-own social network you could point at any community you wanted. it peaked in 2008 at...
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2020-01-01
Palm Phone (2018) (2018 - 2020)
tcl rented the palm name and stuck it on a 3.3-inch phone you were meant to buy in addition to your real phone. verizon-exclusive, 349 dollars, a companion to...
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2020-01-01
Radionomy (2008 - 2020)
four belgians launched radionomy in brussels in april 2008 with an offer that sounded too easy to be legal: build an internet radio station, we cover the music...
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2020-01-01
Zorpia (2003 - 2020)
hong kong social network from december 2003 that claimed 26 million accounts and built a large share of them out of address books belonging to people who had...
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2020-01-01
installCore (2009 - 2020)
ironsource built a wrapper that let any freeware download carry passengers. the developer got paid per install, the person at the keyboard got a next button...
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2020-01-01
Não Salvo (2008 - 2020)
for about a decade the default joke format of the brazilian internet came out of one blog run by one man in são paulo. maurício cid started it in 2008 as a bit...
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2020-01-01
MSDN (Microsoft Developer Network) (1992 - 2020)
forty five million pages went into the migration and microsoft redirected every one of them. msdn began in september 1992 as a quarterly cd-rom subscription...
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2020-01-01
Curiosity.com (2014 - 2020)
six million dollars of chicago venture money went into a website whose main job was pointing at other people's videos. curiosity launched inside discovery...
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2020-01-01
Edorble (2015 - 2020)
in december 2015 two developers opened a public beta for a 3d classroom you could walk a seminar into, built in unity, about five years before every large...
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2020
Yookos (2011 - 2020)
yookos was the christ embassy social network. it started inside the church in 2011 and opened to the public soon after. nigeria was the traffic core with...
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2020
Taazi (2015 - 2020)
a pakistani pop star spent three years building the store his own industry did not have. everything on taazi was there under a written agreement, you could pay...