recent burials and anniversaries https://rip.so/feed.xml 2026-04-29T15:49:22Z rip.so https://rip.so/skype.html 2026-04-29T15:49:22Z 2026-04-29T15:49:22Z

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 and slowly turned it off.

https://rip.so/zune.html 2026-04-29T15:49:22Z 2026-04-29T15:49:22Z

the brown one. squirting songs to friends. the saddest social music device ever shipped.

https://rip.so/windows-phone.html 2026-04-29T15:49:22Z 2026-04-29T15:49:22Z

live tiles were genuinely cool. nokia hardware was beautiful. nobody made apps for it. the third platform died for lack of an instagram client.

https://rip.so/yahoo-messenger.html 2026-04-29T15:49:22Z 2026-04-29T15:49:22Z

buzz!! the loudest possible way to say "are you there?"

https://rip.so/yik-yak.html 2026-04-29T15:49:22Z 2026-04-29T15:49:22Z

anonymous campus gossip. died of moderation, scaled by reputation. a chaotic, location-based ghost town.

https://rip.so/youtube-comments.html 2026-04-29T15:49:22Z 2026-04-29T15:49:22Z

they were chaos but they were ours. the google+ unification was when youtube comments officially died as culture.

https://rip.so/symbian.html 2026-04-29T15:49:22Z 2026-04-29T15:49:22Z

nokia ran the world on it. the iphone came out. nokia kept shipping it for six more years out of denial.

https://rip.so/tamagotchi.html 2026-04-29T15:49:22Z 2026-04-29T15:49:22Z

the first digital being most of us ever loved. the first one we ever killed.

https://rip.so/vine.html 2026-04-29T15:49:22Z 2026-04-29T15:49:22Z

six seconds. the most economical comedic form ever invented. murdered before it could collect rent.

https://rip.so/walkman.html 2026-04-29T15:49:22Z 2026-04-29T15:49:22Z

the walkman invented "personal music." the discman taught us anti-skip protection. the iPod evicted them both.

https://rip.so/winamp.html 2026-04-29T15:49:22Z 2026-04-29T15:49:22Z

it really whipped the llama's ass.

https://rip.so/pebble.html 2026-04-29T15:49:22Z 2026-04-29T15:49:22Z

the kickstarter that started kickstarter. e-paper smartwatch. fitbit ate it. apple buried it. it is, quietly, being resurrected.

https://rip.so/personal-homepages.html 2026-04-29T15:49:22Z 2026-04-29T15:49:22Z

an html page with your name, your hobbies, your dog's photo, an email link, a hit counter. social media ate it. cool people are bringing it back.

https://rip.so/rdio.html 2026-04-29T15:49:22Z 2026-04-29T15:49:22Z

spotify's prettier european cousin. better UI, smaller catalogue, no chance.

https://rip.so/realplayer.html 2026-04-29T15:49:22Z 2026-04-29T15:49:22Z

they wanted to invent streaming. they invented dark patterns instead.

https://rip.so/runescape-classic.html 2026-04-29T15:49:22Z 2026-04-29T15:49:22Z

the original 2001 client kept alive for veterans. seventeen years of sentimental life support. finally turned off.

https://rip.so/netscape.html 2026-04-29T15:49:22Z 2026-04-29T15:49:22Z

the browser that opened the web. lost the war to internet explorer. its ghost is firefox.

https://rip.so/orkut.html 2026-04-29T15:49:22Z 2026-04-29T15:49:22Z

google's first social network. weirdly enormous in brazil and india. 300 million users could not save it.

https://rip.so/palm-pilot.html 2026-04-29T15:49:22Z 2026-04-29T15:49:22Z

graffiti handwriting. PIM in your pocket. "a computer in your hand" before phones did it. acquired, mismanaged, vanished.

https://rip.so/path.html 2026-04-29T15:49:22Z 2026-04-29T15:49:22Z

"a smaller, more personal social network." capped at 150 friends. nobody wanted intimate; everyone wanted reach.

https://rip.so/msn.html 2026-04-29T15:49:22Z 2026-04-29T15:49:22Z

the chatroom of an entire generation's first crushes.

https://rip.so/myspace.html 2026-04-29T15:49:22Z 2026-04-29T15:49:22Z

the top 8 was a public love letter and a public knife fight. tom is still your friend.

https://rip.so/napster.html 2026-04-29T15:49:22Z 2026-04-29T15:49:22Z

the bullet that the recording industry took. nineteen years old. lasted three years. changed everything.

https://rip.so/neopets.html 2026-04-29T15:49:22Z 2026-04-29T15:49:22Z

we taught ourselves html on neopet profiles. an entire generation of programmers were forged in pet customisation.

https://rip.so/icq.html 2026-04-29T15:49:22Z 2026-04-29T15:49:22Z

"uh-oh." it was the sound of being wanted.

https://rip.so/internet-explorer.html 2026-04-29T15:49:22Z 2026-04-29T15:49:22Z

the punching bag. the universal default. the <blink> tag's mortal enemy. retired with grudging respect.

https://rip.so/kazaa.html 2026-04-29T15:49:22Z 2026-04-29T15:49:22Z

downloaded a virus and an album the same afternoon. installed three browser toolbars by accident.

https://rip.so/lycos.html 2026-04-29T15:49:22Z 2026-04-29T15:49:22Z

an entire ecosystem of forgotten search competition. dogpile remembered them. nobody else did.

https://rip.so/minidisc.html 2026-04-29T15:49:22Z 2026-04-29T15:49:22Z

sony's beautiful, ill-fated cassette successor. better than CD, smaller than CD. it actually was huge in japan and had a real audience in parts of europe and asia. it was the iPod plus mp3 that finally broke it everywhere else by around 2003. a true cult hardware.

https://rip.so/grooveshark.html 2026-04-29T15:49:22Z 2026-04-29T15:49:22Z

free music streaming with no apparent licensing. legally questionable. spiritually beloved. eventually sued out of existence.

https://rip.so/habbo.html 2026-04-29T15:49:22Z 2026-04-29T15:49:22Z

virtual hotel rooms. virtual currency. virtual relationships. real hours wasted. unforgettable.

https://rip.so/hi5.html 2026-04-29T15:49:22Z 2026-04-29T15:49:22Z

huge in latin america and turkey. profile customisation paradise. eventually pivoted to gaming, then gave up.

https://rip.so/hotmail.html 2026-04-29T15:49:22Z 2026-04-29T15:49:22Z

your first email address was probably @hotmail.com. that handle is your shame and your archive.

https://rip.so/google-talk.html 2026-04-29T15:49:22Z 2026-04-29T15:49:22Z

remember when google had ONE messenger? then six? then zero? rest in the merge.

https://rip.so/google-wave.html 2026-04-29T15:49:22Z 2026-04-29T15:49:22Z

"what if email and chat had a baby?" they shipped it. nobody understood it. dead in fourteen months.

https://rip.so/friendfeed.html 2026-04-29T15:49:22Z 2026-04-29T15:49:22Z

the geek's social aggregator. facebook bought it, hired the team, pretended it never existed.

https://rip.so/friendster.html 2026-04-29T15:49:22Z 2026-04-29T15:49:22Z

the original social network. it figured out the model. lost the audience. died as a filipino gaming site.

https://rip.so/geocities.html 2026-04-29T15:49:22Z 2026-04-29T15:49:22Z

the city of personal homepages, where everyone had a window with a candle.

https://rip.so/google-plus.html 2026-04-29T15:49:22Z 2026-04-29T15:49:22Z

they made you join it to comment on youtube. circles were a great idea. nobody asked.

https://rip.so/google-reader.html 2026-04-29T15:49:22Z 2026-04-29T15:49:22Z

the open web's last great central nervous system. killed for nothing in particular. nobody got over it.

https://rip.so/digg.html 2026-04-29T15:49:22Z 2026-04-29T15:49:22Z

power users had a religion. the v4 redesign was the schism. reddit ate the whole pie.

https://rip.so/flash-games.html 2026-04-29T15:49:22Z 2026-04-29T15:49:22Z

an entire civilisation of bored office workers, school kids on library computers, stick figure animations. a renaissance lost to a single calendar date.

https://rip.so/flash.html 2026-04-29T15:49:22Z 2026-04-29T15:49:22Z

the engine of the early creative web. for two decades, half the internet was a SWF file.

https://rip.so/forum-signatures.html 2026-04-29T15:49:22Z 2026-04-29T15:49:22Z

your sig was 3 inches tall, animated, contained a quote from terry pratchett, and 8 different forums you moderated. RIP forum culture.

https://rip.so/club-penguin.html 2026-04-29T15:49:22Z 2026-04-29T15:49:22Z

disney bought it, milked it, killed it for an app. the millions of children who waddled there are now adults who still log on in dreams.

https://rip.so/delicious.html 2026-04-29T15:49:22Z 2026-04-29T15:49:22Z

social bookmarking when bookmarking was social. tags were the future. then they weren't.

https://rip.so/dial-up.html 2026-04-29T15:49:22Z 2026-04-29T15:49:22Z

"GET OFF THE PHONE I'M DOWNLOADING SOMETHING."

https://rip.so/bbm.html 2026-04-29T15:49:22Z 2026-04-29T15:49:22Z

PIN exchanges were corporate intimacy. R / D ticks were status anxiety. it died defending its keyboard.

https://rip.so/bebo.html 2026-04-29T15:49:22Z 2026-04-29T15:49:22Z

UK and ireland's myspace. AOL bought it for $850M, sold it for $10M three years later. friend luv was a finite resource.

https://rip.so/blackberry.html 2026-04-29T15:49:22Z 2026-04-29T15:49:22Z

the keyboard purists. emails on the metro. the pope had one. obama had one. they swore touchscreens were a fad.