~ rip.so :: the most mourned ~

ranked by roses left at each grave. grief, quantified.

3824 roses left on 1073 graves.

1. @}-->-- 195 roses ICQ (1996 - 2024)
the original consumer instant messenger. four israeli developers in tel aviv built it in 1996. its uh-oh sound was the...
2. @}-->-- 129 roses goatse.cx (1999 - 2004)
the shock url that ran for five years on christmas island's .cx cctld. one image, one filename, hundreds of millions of...
3. @}-->-- 109 roses Skype (2003 - 2025)
blue logo, the boop boop ringtone, washed out video. how you called your grandma when she lived in another country....
4. @}-->-- 79 roses MSN Messenger (1999 - 2014)
the messenger of every Turkish high school student and university student from 2002 to 2010. the nudge shook your...
5. @}-->-- 62 roses ezboard (1996 - 2008)
ezboard was a free hosted-forum platform vanchau nguyen launched in 1996, written in smalltalk visualworks 3.1 with jay...
6. @}-->-- 57 roses GeoCities (1994 - 2009)
the city of personal homepages. you got a small chunk of disk space, a subdomain like...
7. @}-->-- 57 roses Winamp (1997 - 2013 (cult era ended), zombie 2014+)
it really whips the llama's ass. winamp was the mp3 player on every windows computer from about 1998 to 2005. nullsoft...
8. @}-->-- 56 roses Adobe Flash (1996 - 2020)
the plugin that ran the interactive web from 2000 to 2010. flash games, flash animation, flash banner ads, flash-based...
9. @}-->-- 44 roses Amino (2012 - 2025)
amino shut down without warning on 19 december 2025. the servers stopped responding and the apps stopped loading....
10. @}-->-- 40 roses Personal Homepages (the cultural form) (1995 - 2010)
the personal homepage as a cultural form. roughly 1995 to 2010. you got free hosting somewhere (geocities, angelfire,...
11. @}-->-- 37 roses Forum signatures (1995 - 2015)
the animated banners, glittery name renders, custom anime characters, and long quote collections that hung at the...
12. @}-->-- 34 roses Angelfire / Tripod (1996 - 2009)
the other free hosting services. while geocities took the bigger audience, angelfire and tripod each had millions of...
13. @}-->-- 34 roses Flash games (1998 - 2020)
the browser games that ran in school computer labs, in office break rooms, on home dial-up connections after dinner....
14. @}-->-- 34 roses Google Reader (2005 - 2013)
the RSS reader. you subscribed to feeds from blogs, news sites, friends' personal pages. the reader checked everything...
15. @}-->-- 33 roses Twitter (2006 - 2023) (2006 - 2023)
the public conversation site. 280 characters per post (originally 140). the timeline was where you watched things...
16. @}-->-- 31 roses AOL Instant Messenger (1997 - 2017)
the AOL Instant Messenger. the running yellow guy was its mascot. it was the messenger of every american millennial...
17. @}-->-- 30 roses Google+ (2011 - 2019)
Google's serious attempt at a Facebook competitor. circles were the new feature. hangouts was bundled in. it had 500...
18. @}-->-- 29 roses Netscape Navigator (1994 - 2008)
the first browser most people used. it was a real product you could buy in a shrink-wrapped box at the store. microsoft...
19. @}-->-- 27 roses Rotten.com (1996 - 2012)
the original 1996 shock site. it ran for sixteen years from a single-word domain that soylent communications grabbed...
20. @}-->-- 26 roses Microsoft Tay (23 - 24 March 2016 (16 hours))
microsoft's twitter chatbot. lasted 16 hours. 4chan taught it nazi tweets within minutes of launch. microsoft pulled...
21. @}-->-- 26 roses Yahoo! Messenger (1998 - 2018)
the messenger with the loudest possible attention-getter (the BUZZ feature shook your whole window with sound). its...
22. @}-->-- 25 roses Dial-up Internet (1979 - 2010s)
the way most of the world got online from the early 1990s to the early 2000s. the 14.4k modem became 33.6, then 56k....
23. @}-->-- 25 roses Omegle (2009 - 2023)
the random-stranger video chat site. you opened the URL, you got paired with another random user somewhere on the...
24. @}-->-- 24 roses 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...
25. @}-->-- 24 roses CodeProject (1999 - 2026)
codeproject launched in november 1999 in toronto, founded by chris maunder and david cunningham as an article archive...
26. @}-->-- 24 roses Napster (1999 - 2002)
shawn fanning was 19 when he wrote it in his college dorm. the site let anyone share mp3s with anyone else. between...
27. @}-->-- 22 roses Cohost (2022 - 2025)
cohost launched in june 2022 from a four-person not-for-profit cooperative called anti software software club. the team...
28. @}-->-- 22 roses Kazaa (2001 - 2012)
the mp3 sharing app of choice after napster got sued. kazaa, limewire, and bearshare all ran on similar networks and...
29. @}-->-- 22 roses Microsoft Clippy (1997 - 2007)
the animated paperclip in microsoft office. "it looks like you're writing a letter." nobody asked. everyone hated him....
30. @}-->-- 22 roses Sleepycat Software (1996 - 2006)
carlisle, massachusetts, 1996: margo seltzer and keith bostic start a company because netscape wants a better version...
31. @}-->-- 21 roses Delicious / del.icio.us (2003 - 2017)
the social bookmarking site with the goofy domain (del.icio.us, before domain hacks were normal). it invented social...
32. @}-->-- 21 roses Last.fm (the social era) (2002 - 2014)
the music scrobbling site. you installed an audioscrobbler plugin in winamp or foobar2000. it tracked every song you...
33. @}-->-- 20 roses Cleverbot (1997 - 2014)
the chatbot that learned from every conversation it ever had. it ran on recycled human responses, which is why it would...
34. @}-->-- 20 roses Tamagotchi (the cultural fad) (1996 - 1999)
the bandai virtual pet keychain. you fed it, played with it, cleaned its poop. if you ignored it for too long, it died....
35. @}-->-- 19 roses 3.5" Floppy Disk (1981 - 2010)
the small plastic square that everyone had a stack of in 1995. it held 1.44 mb, it made a small whirring sound when you...
36. @}-->-- 19 roses AltaVista (1995 - 2013)
the first search engine that actually returned useful results. DEC built it to demo their alpha cpus. it was the...
37. @}-->-- 19 roses astalavista.box.sk (1994 - 2007)
the warez search engine. you typed in a piece of software (photoshop, winrar, 3ds max, anything) and got a list of...
38. @}-->-- 19 roses MySpace (the real one) (2003 - 2011)
the real myspace, before justin timberlake bought it and turned it into a music site. peak 2005 to 2008. your top 8...
39. @}-->-- 19 roses Vine (2013 - 2017)
six seconds. looping video. you opened the app, watched a clip, it played again, you watched it again, you laughed, you...
40. @}-->-- 18 roses Grooveshark (2007 - 2015)
free music streaming, before spotify made it legal. you searched, found almost any song, played it for free. the...
41. @}-->-- 18 roses 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...
42. @}-->-- 18 roses Tripod.com (1995 - 2026)
tripod started in 1992 at williams college and launched the consumer free-hosting product in 1995, with bo peabody and...
43. @}-->-- 17 roses 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....
44. @}-->-- 17 roses Jabberwacky (1997 - 2011)
one of the first web chatbots that actually learned from what people typed at it. rollo carpenter had been carrying the...
45. @}-->-- 17 roses Myrient (2022 - 2026)
myrient was 390 terabytes of verified game preservation sets served over plain http by one administrator, with no...
46. @}-->-- 17 roses 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...
47. @}-->-- 16 roses 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...
48. @}-->-- 16 roses BlackBerry Messenger (2005 - 2019)
the messenger that came with every blackberry. for a few years, around 2009 to 2012, having a BBM PIN to share was a...
49. @}-->-- 15 roses 8tracks (2008 - 2024)
the playlist site for people who still thought of mixtapes as a love language. you uploaded eight or more tracks, named...
50. @}-->-- 15 roses Usenet (the ISP-bundled era) (1980 - 2008)
the original distributed discussion network. text-only newsgroups about every possible topic. for thirty years you got...
51. @}-->-- 14 roses AnimeKai (2024 - 2026)
the largest pirate anime streaming site of early 2026. surfaced after hianime's march 2026 shutdown. died on may 10,...
52. @}-->-- 14 roses FireChat (2014 - 2020)
firechat was the messenger you used when the network was off. it routed messages over bluetooth and peer-to-peer wifi,...
53. @}-->-- 14 roses Palm Pilot (1996 - 2011)
the personal digital assistant. before smartphones, you carried a palm pilot for your calendar, contacts, and notes....
54. @}-->-- 14 roses Symbian OS (1998 - 2014)
the OS that ran every nokia smartphone from about 2000 to 2011. peak market share over 60 percent globally in 2007....
55. @}-->-- 14 roses Yahoo! Games (1998 - 2016)
the yahoo browser games portal. pool, chess, spades, hearts, dominoes, backgammon. each game opened in a small popup...
56. @}-->-- 13 roses Digg (the original) (2004 - 2012)
the news site where users voted on what made the front page. peak around 2007. the v4 redesign in august 2010 destroyed...
57. @}-->-- 13 roses MiniDisc (1992 - 2013)
sony's beautiful magneto-optical format. small, recordable, durable. it was the dominant portable music format in japan...
58. @}-->-- 13 roses Sony Walkman (1979 - 2010)
the original portable cassette player. invented personal music in 1979. it ran the world's listening habits for thirty...
59. @}-->-- 12 roses Club Penguin (2005 - 2017)
the virtual world for kids where you were a small flat penguin in a snowy multiplayer town. you waddled around. you...
60. @}-->-- 12 roses 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...
61. @}-->-- 12 roses Microsoft Encarta (1993 - 2009)
the multimedia encyclopedia that came on cd-rom and later dvd. microsoft bought funk & wagnalls in 1989, dressed it up...
62. @}-->-- 12 roses Neopets (1999 - 2014)
the virtual pet site. you adopted a neopet (faerie kacheek, christmas shoyru, stealthy gelert), fed it, played with it,...
63. @}-->-- 12 roses 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...
64. @}-->-- 12 roses Windows Phone (2010 - 2017)
microsoft's mobile OS that came after iphone and android were already entrenched. the live tile interface was genuinely...
65. @}-->-- 11 roses Blingee (2006 - 2024)
blingee was a browser tool for adding animated glitter and stamps to photos. launched 2006 as part of the bauer teen...
66. @}-->-- 11 roses Fitocracy (2011 - 2024)
fitocracy was a fitness social network founded in february 2011 by dick talens and brian wang. it gave you points for...
67. @}-->-- 11 roses Hotmail (1996 - 2013)
the first webmail that worked. you got an @hotmail.com address, you logged in from any computer in the world, and your...
68. @}-->-- 11 roses iPod (2001 - 2022)
the ipod was the product that turned apple into a consumer-electronics company. it sold roughly 450 million units...
69. @}-->-- 11 roses 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...
70. @}-->-- 11 roses Pressplay (2001 - 2003)
pressplay was the major labels trying to build the legal music store they should have built four years earlier and...
71. @}-->-- 11 roses Skyblog (2002 - 2023)
the french teenage blogging platform from 2002 to 2023. owned by the radio station skyrock. millions of french...
72. @}-->-- 10 roses 5.25" Floppy Disk (1976 - 1995)
the bigger and genuinely floppy older sibling. it was made of soft plastic, it bent if you held it wrong, and it held...
73. @}-->-- 10 roses Orkut (2004 - 2014)
google's social network from 2004 to 2014. small in the US. enormous in brazil. then enormous in india. the most...
74. @}-->-- 10 roses Pebble (2012 - 2016 (resurrected 2025))
the kickstarter-funded smartwatch from 2012. the original kickstarter raised 10.3 million dollars when 100,000 was the...
75. @}-->-- 10 roses RealPlayer (1995 - 2010s)
the first streaming media player most people used. realaudio and realvideo were the formats. the player was...
76. @}-->-- 10 roses SmarterChild (2001 - 2008)
the AIM bot from 2001. you added it to your buddy list and asked it stuff. weather, definitions, song lyrics, dirty...
77. @}-->-- 10 roses SoundJam MP (1999 - 2001)
soundjam mp was the best mp3 player on the mac at the turn of the century, the app that took ninety percent of that...
78. @}-->-- 10 roses Stickam (2005 - 2013)
stickam launched in 2005 as one of the first websites you could embed a live webcam stream into another page. by 2012...
79. @}-->-- 9 roses NCSA Mosaic (1993 - 1997)
the first browser most people saw the web through. released april 1993 from ncsa at the university of illinois. ran on...
80. @}-->-- 9 roses Ogrish.com (2000 - 2006)
ogrish was the post-rotten shock site of the 2000-2006 window. the domain registered june 18, 2000. its peak content...
81. @}-->-- 9 roses Xfire (2004 - 2016)
xfire was a free game-aware instant messenger that launched in april 2004 from a team led by quake legend dennis...
82. @}-->-- 9 roses 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...
83. @}-->-- 9 roses 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...
84. @}-->-- 9 roses YouTube comments (the original era) (2005 - 2013)
the comment section of youtube before google forced it through google+ in 2013. it was famously bad. flame wars. spam....
85. @}-->-- 8 roses Habbo Hotel (peak era) (2000 - 2012)
the pixel-art virtual hotel where you were a small standing avatar in a pixel hotel room. you decorated rooms. you...
86. @}-->-- 8 roses HotBot (1996 - 2016)
hotbot launched in 1996 with the loudest design of any search engine on the web and a back-end called inktomi that...
87. @}-->-- 8 roses Houseparty (2016 - 2021)
houseparty was a group video chat app that you joined casually, without scheduling. you opened the app and saw which...
88. @}-->-- 8 roses RuneScape Classic (2001 - 2018)
the original RuneScape, before RuneScape 2 (2004) and Old School RuneScape (2013) split the player base into three...
89. @}-->-- 8 roses What.CD (2007 - 2016)
what.cd was the largest private music tracker in bittorrent history. it opened on october 27, 2007, the same day oink's...
90. @}-->-- 8 roses Windows XP (2001 - 2014)
windows xp shipped in october 2001 and refused to leave for thirteen years. it sat under bliss, the napa hill that...
91. @}-->-- 7 roses Albino Blacksheep (1996 - 2020)
albino blacksheep launched in 1996 from toronto. steven lerner ran a personal flash portal that became one of the...
92. @}-->-- 7 roses cjb.net (1998 - 2010)
cjb.net handed out free yourname.cjb.net subdomains that redirected to your real homepage url, plus free email aliases....
93. @}-->-- 7 roses Flipnote Hatena (2008 - 2018)
the nintendo DSi animation app. you drew flipbook-style animations on the touchscreen, frame by frame, then uploaded...
94. @}-->-- 7 roses Google Wave (2009 - 2012)
Google's attempt at "email if it had been invented today." it was email plus chat plus collaborative document, all...
95. @}-->-- 7 roses 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...
96. @}-->-- 7 roses JenniCam (1996 - 2003)
jennicam was a 24/7 webcam jennifer ringley pointed at her dickinson college dorm room on 14 april 1996. the image...
97. @}-->-- 7 roses Lycos (1994 - 2010)
one of the early big four search engines (with altavista, yahoo, infoseek) before google. CMU spinoff. went public in...
98. @}-->-- 7 roses Miiverse (2012 - 2017)
miiverse was a social network where the main form of expression was a doodle drawn on a wii u gamepad. it had heavy...
99. @}-->-- 7 roses Samsung Messages (2009 - 2026)
samsung messages was the stock sms client samsung shipped on galaxy phones from the touchwiz era onward. samsung...
100. @}-->-- 7 roses Stile Project (1999 - 2010)
jay stile's shock-aggregator site, registered october 3, 1999. ran for eleven years as part of the english-language...
101. @}-->-- 7 roses Ultima Online (the cultural era) (1997 - 2010)
the 2D isometric medieval mmorpg from 1997. you were a small avatar in a big shared world. you mined ore. you tamed...
102. @}-->-- 7 roses Yo (2014 - 2016)
yo was a one-button iphone app that sent the word "yo" to a friend as a push notification. there were no other...
103. @}-->-- 6 roses AOL Dial-Up (1991 - 2025)
the dial-up internet service that defined the 1990s american internet experience. you tied up the phone line, listened...
104. @}-->-- 6 roses CompuServe (1969 - 2009)
the first big commercial online service in the US. text only for most of its life. its user IDs were long numeric...
105. @}-->-- 6 roses FarmVille (2009 - 2020)
the facebook game that defined the social-gaming era. you planted a virtual crop, you waited a real-world timer, you...
106. @}-->-- 6 roses Friendster (2002 - 2015)
the first social network most americans signed up for. peak around 2003. by 2005 myspace had eaten its lunch. it...
107. @}-->-- 6 roses HyperCard (1987 - 2004)
hypercard was apple's pre-web hypermedia stack. you laid out cards full of buttons and pictures, and you wrote little...
108. @}-->-- 6 roses 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...
109. @}-->-- 6 roses Microsoft Publisher (1991 - 2026)
microsoft's cheap desktop-publishing app for anyone who was not a designer. it shipped alongside word and excel in...
110. @}-->-- 6 roses Peperonity (2002 - 2018)
peperonity was one of the first and largest places you could build your own mobile page from the phone itself, no...
111. @}-->-- 6 roses Stardoll (2004 - 2020)
the swedish virtual paper-doll site that became the dominant fashion-coded community for tween girls in the late 2000s....
112. @}-->-- 6 roses Swatch Internet Time (.beats) (1998 - 2009)
swatch's 1998 attempt to replace timezones for the internet age. the day was divided into 1000 beats. each beat was...
113. @}-->-- 6 roses The Palace (1995 - 2001)
the graphical chat platform from 1995. you joined a "palace," which was a set of 2D rooms with painted backgrounds. you...
114. @}-->-- 6 roses The Source (1979 - 1989)
the source was the first thing in america you could call a consumer online service. it predates the web by sixteen...
115. @}-->-- 6 roses Trovo (2020 - 2026)
trovo was tencent's twitch competitor, launched july 2020 in the united states after a brief private beta under the...
116. @}-->-- 6 roses Wii U (2012 - 2017)
nintendo shipped a console with a screen built into the controller. the marketing made it sound like an accessory and...
117. @}-->-- 5 roses 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...
118. @}-->-- 5 roses BeOS (1995 - 2001)
beos was the cult operating system from be inc., the company started by ex-apple executive jean-louis gassée in 1990....
119. @}-->-- 5 roses BlackBerry (1999 - 2022)
the corporate phone with the physical keyboard. the qwerty made you faster at email than anyone with a touch screen. it...
120. @}-->-- 5 roses ChaCha (2006 - 2016)
chacha was a us-only sms search service from scott a. jones and brad bostic, launched september 1, 2006 in carmel,...
121. @}-->-- 5 roses eWorld (1994 - 1996)
apple's online service from 1994 to 1996. it was the most beautiful of the walled gardens, with a cartoon town...
122. @}-->-- 5 roses Firefox Hello (2014 - 2016)
the video chat button that sat inside firefox itself. you opened a conversation in your browser, sent the link, and the...
123. @}-->-- 5 roses 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...
124. @}-->-- 5 roses 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...
125. @}-->-- 5 roses LiveLeak (2006 - 2021)
liveleak hosted the video the cable networks would not show. iraq war footage, the saddam execution clip, russian...
126. @}-->-- 5 roses Microsoft Zune (2006 - 2012)
microsoft's iPod competitor. arrived in 2006, five years after the iPod had won. brown was a launch color, which became...
127. @}-->-- 5 roses Mint (2007 - 2024)
the free budgeting app that aggregated every us bank account and credit card into a single dashboard. aaron patzer...
128. @}-->-- 5 roses MSN Groups (1995 - 2009)
msn groups was the bureaucratic floor of the msn building. you got a shared message board, a small file storage area, a...
129. @}-->-- 5 roses Netlog (1999 - 2015)
netlog was the belgian social network that scaled across continental europe in the late 2000s and folded into a dating...
130. @}-->-- 5 roses Nintendo Power (1988 - 2012)
the official nintendo of america print magazine. born july 1988 with a free 3.6 million copy run mailed out to fun club...
131. @}-->-- 5 roses Quizilla (2002 - 2014)
the site where teenagers made and took user-generated personality quizzes, which became the trojan horse for...
132. @}-->-- 5 roses Radio.Blog.Club (2003 - 2008)
the french audio embed service of the mid-2000s. you uploaded an mp3, got a small flash player you could paste into...
133. @}-->-- 5 roses 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...
134. @}-->-- 5 roses Skype for Business (2015 - 2021)
Skype for Business was the corporate IM and conferencing product that lived inside Microsoft Office for fourteen years...
135. @}-->-- 5 roses StudiVZ (2005 - 2022)
studivz was the german-speaking world's homegrown facebook. founded in november 2005 in berlin by ehssan dariani and...
136. @}-->-- 5 roses Sun Microsystems (1982 - 2010)
the silicon valley brand that built java and a long list of other infrastructure you have used without thinking about...
137. @}-->-- 5 roses WordPad (1995 - 2024)
wordpad was the windows accessory that ran for 29 years and did not survive windows 11 24h2. microsoft shipped it with...
138. @}-->-- 5 roses 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...
139. @}-->-- 4 roses 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...
140. @}-->-- 4 roses 3D Pinball for Windows - Space Cadet (1995 - 2007)
the windows pinball that came with every microsoft plus! pack and then every copy of windows from 98 through xp. you...
141. @}-->-- 4 roses 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...
142. @}-->-- 4 roses Bing Maps Streetside (2009 - 2025)
bing maps streetside launched in december 2009 as microsoft's google street view answer. it covered selected US metros...
143. @}-->-- 4 roses BlackICE Defender (1998 - 2007)
twelve thousand machines was the entire vulnerable population, and the witty worm reached all of it in about forty-five...
144. @}-->-- 4 roses Candystand (1997 - 2016)
candystand was a free browser games portal built in 1997 for the life savers candy brand by skyworks technologies, a...
145. @}-->-- 4 roses DMOZ (1998 - 2017)
dmoz was the volunteer attempt to keep the human-edited directory alive after yahoo's directory turned commercial. tens...
146. @}-->-- 4 roses Elfwood (1996 - 2016)
the largest sci-fi and fantasy art gallery on the early web. hosted out of linköping university in sweden by thomas...
147. @}-->-- 4 roses 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...
148. @}-->-- 4 roses Encyclopædia Britannica (print) (1768 - 2012)
the english-speaking world's reference set for two and a half centuries. first fascicle published in edinburgh in 1768....
149. @}-->-- 4 roses FFFFOUND! (2007 - 2017)
ffffound was an invite-only image bookmarking site built by tha ltd in tokyo under yugo nakamura, with yosuke abe and...
150. @}-->-- 4 roses Flappy Bird (2013 - 2014)
flappy bird was a free mobile game by a vietnamese developer named dong nguyen. it was released in may 2013, became a...
151. @}-->-- 4 roses GameSpy (1999 - 2014)
gamespy started in 1999 from an earlier quake server browser called qspy. it became the matchmaking middleware behind...
152. @}-->-- 4 roses 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...
153. @}-->-- 4 roses Google Allo (2016 - 2019)
google allo launched in september 2016 as the smart messenger that would make google assistant feel like a person you...
154. @}-->-- 4 roses 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...
155. @}-->-- 4 roses HipChat (2010 - 2019)
hipchat was a chat room with green check marks for engineers, then a brand atlassian bought, then a brand atlassian...
156. @}-->-- 4 roses Iomega Zip Disk (1995 - 2003)
the zip disk was iomega's bet that the next floppy would also be a floppy, only fatter. it briefly worked. then cd-r...
157. @}-->-- 4 roses iTunes (2001 - 2019)
itunes died on a mac, but it died for everyone who ever owned an ipod. by 2019 it had bloated into several products...
158. @}-->-- 4 roses Logitech Harmony (2001 - 2021)
harmony began in 2001 as easy zapper, a canadian remote that could control your entire home theater stack from one...
159. @}-->-- 4 roses 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...
160. @}-->-- 4 roses MapQuest (1996 - present (effectively dead by 2010))
the way you got driving directions before google maps. you typed in two addresses, got back a list of turn-by-turn...
161. @}-->-- 4 roses Microsoft Cortana (2014 - 2023)
microsoft's voice assistant. announced at build april 2 2014, named after the halo character with jen taylor's voice,...
162. @}-->-- 4 roses 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...
163. @}-->-- 4 roses Microsoft Works (1987 - 2009)
microsoft works was the office suite you got when you bought a compaq or an emachines at a discount. it had its own...
164. @}-->-- 4 roses MSN Gaming Zone (1996 - 2006)
msn gaming zone was microsoft's online gaming portal from 1996 to 2006. it started life as the village in 1996, got...
165. @}-->-- 4 roses 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....
166. @}-->-- 4 roses Mxit (2005 - 2016)
mxit was south africa's whatsapp before whatsapp arrived. it ran on the cheap feature phones a teenager could afford in...
167. @}-->-- 4 roses NoiseTrade (2008 - 2023)
noisetrade was a nashville direct-to-fan music and book distribution platform founded in april 2008 by derek webb. the...
168. @}-->-- 4 roses RARBG (2008 - 2023)
rarbg ran torrent listings out of bulgaria for fifteen years and collected court-ordered blocks in a dozen countries,...
169. @}-->-- 4 roses Shockwave.com (1999 - 2019)
the game portal that ran on the shockwave plugin, the older sibling of flash. launched by macromedia in 1999. peak 22...
170. @}-->-- 4 roses 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...
171. @}-->-- 4 roses ThinkGeek (1999 - 2019)
thinkgeek launched august 13, 1999 out of virginia, founded by willie vadnais, jen frazier, jon sime, and scott smith...
172. @}-->-- 4 roses TinyPic (2004 - 2019)
tinypic was the no-account image host you used because nothing else was simpler. you uploaded a file and copied the...
173. @}-->-- 4 roses TNTVillage (2005 - 2019)
a million users, said the publishers' association when it sued. the site's own counter said 610,000, and its statute...
174. @}-->-- 4 roses TOTSE (1989 - 2009)
jeff hunter and j.c. stanton opened & the temple of the screaming electron as a dial-up bbs in 1989 under the...
175. @}-->-- 4 roses TypePad (2003 - 2025)
typepad was the paid blogging service from six apart, the same company behind movable type, launched in october 2003 as...
176. @}-->-- 4 roses 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...
177. @}-->-- 4 roses Voilà (1998 - 2018)
the french web portal and search engine that was the default homepage for a generation of french users in the late...
178. @}-->-- 4 roses Warface: Clutch (2013 - 2026)
on 25 august 2026 my.games switched off the last console servers and the international warface was gone, thirteen years...
179. @}-->-- 4 roses WebTV / MSN TV (1996 - 2013)
the set-top box that connected a normal TV to the internet via a phone line and a hand-held remote keyboard. launched...
180. @}-->-- 4 roses Wikinews (2004 - 2026)
wikinews was the wikimedia project where volunteers wrote original news reports instead of encyclopedia articles, which...
181. @}-->-- 4 roses Windows Live Messenger (2005 - 2013)
the new name for msn messenger after december 2005. same green icon, same contact list, longer string in the install...
182. @}-->-- 4 roses WON.net (1998 - 2004)
won was the matchmaking spine behind half-life's first six years online. valve built steam in secret while still on...
183. @}-->-- 4 roses Yahooligans! (1996 - 2013)
yahooligans was yahoo's kid-safe directory, launched in april 1996 as a hand-curated guide to the open web for children...
184. @}-->-- 3 roses AOL CDs (1993 - 2006)
the free AOL signup discs that arrived in every american mailbox for over a decade. peak distribution was something...
185. @}-->-- 3 roses AOL Sessions (2003 - 2013)
aol sessions was an in-house concert series from aol music that filmed acoustic and stripped-down performances by major...
186. @}-->-- 3 roses Apparatus (2011 - 2018)
the swedish android sandbox puzzle game from 2011. you used a hammer to pin planks and wheels together. you connected...
187. @}-->-- 3 roses Apple Lisa (1983 - 1986)
apple announced the lisa in january 1983 at a price nobody outside fortune 500 could pay. it shipped with a gui and a...
188. @}-->-- 3 roses Ask.fm (2010 - 2024)
ask.fm launched on june 16 2010 in riga, latvia, founded by brothers ilja and mark terebin with three other...
189. @}-->-- 3 roses Audiogalaxy (1998 - 2013)
audiogalaxy was the p2p tool that felt curated. you queued songs in a web browser and your machine downloaded them in...
190. @}-->-- 3 roses Bebo (2005 - 2014)
the social network that owned UK, Ireland, New Zealand, and a few other english-speaking markets from 2005 to 2010. AOL...
191. @}-->-- 3 roses Beeper Mini (2023 - 2024)
beeper mini reverse-engineered the imessage protocol and put blue bubbles on android. it launched on december 5 2023,...
192. @}-->-- 3 roses BuddyBuddy (2000 - 2012)
buddybuddy was the messenger of the south korean pc-cafe and high-school internet through the early 2000s. it launched...
193. @}-->-- 3 roses BYTE Magazine (1975 - 1998)
the magazine that taught engineers what was inside the machine for two decades. wayne green and carl helmers founded it...
194. @}-->-- 3 roses Caramail (1997 - 2008)
the french webmail and chat rooms service from 1997 to 2008. before MSN took over here, this is where french teenagers...
195. @}-->-- 3 roses Chit Chat City (2010 - 2018)
a sole proprietorship on rue saint-hubert in montreal ran a 3d city for eight years, where you drew your own avatar...
196. @}-->-- 3 roses Claris HomePage (1996 - 2001)
claris homepage was the wysiwyg html editor apple's claris subsidiary shipped to compete with frontpage and pagemill....
197. @}-->-- 3 roses CyanogenMod (2009 - 2016)
cyanogenmod was the android rom you flashed when you wanted your phone to be yours. it removed carrier bloat and ran on...
198. @}-->-- 3 roses Cyworld (1999 - 2015)
the south korean social network that nearly every twenty-something in the country used at peak. you got a minihompy, a...
199. @}-->-- 3 roses Electronic Gaming Monthly (print) (1989 - 2009)
the multi-platform us gaming print magazine, twenty years on newsstands. founded march 31 1989 by steve harris under...
200. @}-->-- 3 roses Facepunch Forums (2004 - 2019)
garry newman started a forum in 2004, around the time he started the mod that made his name, and he spent the last year...
201. @}-->-- 3 roses Firefox OS (2013 - 2016)
mozilla's mobile operating system. the whole UI and apps were built in HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. the pitch was: every...
202. @}-->-- 3 roses Friends Reunited (2000 - 2016)
the UK's first big social network. you registered, you picked your old school from a directory of british schools, you...
203. @}-->-- 3 roses FuckedCompany.com (2000 - 2007)
fuckedcompany was a dot-com dead pool launched in may 2000 by philip j kaplan, who posted as pud. the site let users...
204. @}-->-- 3 roses Ghostbin (2013 - 2019)
644,000 pastes were sitting on ghostbin at the end of 2018, which is when dustin howett told people the site would...
205. @}-->-- 3 roses Gigablast (2002 - 2023)
matt wells left infoseek, went home to albuquerque and spent two decades building a search engine that crawled the web...
206. @}-->-- 3 roses Google Assistant (2016 - 2026)
a billion devices had it installed and about five hundred million people used it every month. google announced in...
207. @}-->-- 3 roses 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...
208. @}-->-- 3 roses Gopher protocol (1991 - 2000)
the menu-based content protocol from the university of minnesota. you saw a numbered list of items, you typed the...
209. @}-->-- 3 roses 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...
210. @}-->-- 3 roses 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...
211. @}-->-- 3 roses HotWired (1994 - 1999)
hotwired launched on october 27, 1994 as the first commercial online magazine. it carried the first banner ad ever sold...
212. @}-->-- 3 roses 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...
213. @}-->-- 3 roses iGoogle (2005 - 2013)
igoogle was google's customizable home page. you opened a tab and a grid of widgets you had picked yourself was sitting...
214. @}-->-- 3 roses iRiver (1999 - 2014)
the geeky korean mp3 player brand. it was what you bought when the ipod was too expensive, or when you wanted something...
215. @}-->-- 3 roses iTunes LP (2009 - 2017)
itunes lp was apple's attempt to make a digital album feel like a packaged record. the format shipped with itunes 9 on...
216. @}-->-- 3 roses 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...
217. @}-->-- 3 roses Macromedia Director (1985 - 2017)
director was the authoring tool of the cd-rom decade. macromind shipped it as videoworks on the macintosh in 1985 and...
218. @}-->-- 3 roses Macromedia xRes (1994 - 1998)
fred and richard krueger started fauve software in raleigh in 1992, and their first product, matisse, put layers into a...
219. @}-->-- 3 roses Megaupload (2005 - 2012)
the cyberlocker that put a file behind a single download link, charged for premium speed, paid uploaders for popular...
220. @}-->-- 3 roses Microsoft Songsmith (2009 - 2018)
you sang into the microphone and songsmith built a backing track in a genre you picked. the january 2009 launch came...
221. @}-->-- 3 roses Motion Twin (Flash era) (2001 - 2017)
a small french collective that made hammerfest, mush, dinoparc, and a stack of other browser games in the early 2000s....
222. @}-->-- 3 roses 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...
223. @}-->-- 3 roses Northern Light (1997 - 2003)
the search engine that grouped your results into folders. it indexed the open web and a separate "special collection"...
224. @}-->-- 3 roses 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...
225. @}-->-- 3 roses ooVoo (2007 - 2017)
the group video chat people used because skype's free tier only worked for small calls. up to twelve callers at once on...
226. @}-->-- 3 roses Photobucket (2003 - 2017)
the image host that ate forum signatures and myspace pages. you uploaded a photo and pasted the link into your...
227. @}-->-- 3 roses Pixie Hollow (2008 - 2013)
the disney fairies mmo built as a tie-in to the tinker bell film franchise. you created a fairy with a talent type and...
228. @}-->-- 3 roses PlayStation Portable (2004 - 2014)
the psp was sony's bet that a handheld could be both a gameboy competitor and a portable media player. it sold 76...
229. @}-->-- 3 roses PlayStation Vita (2011 - 2019)
the vita was sony's bet that you could still sell a dedicated three-hundred-dollar handheld in the year of the iphone...
230. @}-->-- 3 roses 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...
231. @}-->-- 3 roses Project Looking Glass (2003 - 2006)
project looking glass was sun microsystems' attempt at a three dimensional desktop, written in java on top of the java...
232. @}-->-- 3 roses Rdio (2010 - 2015)
the prettiest music streaming service of the early 2010s. founded by the skype co-founders. great design. paid model....
233. @}-->-- 3 roses 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...
234. @}-->-- 3 roses Rinmaru Games (2008 - 2020)
on 31 december 2020, hours after adobe flash stopped running, rinmarugames.com replaced its catalog with one painted...
235. @}-->-- 3 roses Sega Dreamcast (1998 - 2001)
the dreamcast was the console that introduced built-in modems and online matchmaking to a living-room audience, two...
236. @}-->-- 3 roses Sega Game Gear (1990 - 1997)
the game gear was sega's answer to the nintendo game boy. it launched in japan on october 6 1990 with a backlit color...
237. @}-->-- 3 roses Sierra Entertainment (1979 - 2008)
sierra started in 1979 in simi valley as on-line systems, founded by ken and roberta williams. roberta wrote mystery...
238. @}-->-- 3 roses Songza (2007 - 2016)
songza launched in november 2007 from new york as a streaming service whose interface asked "what are you doing right...
239. @}-->-- 3 roses Soranet (1999 - 2016)
soranet began in 1999 as a personal link page and became the largest korean-language pornography site on the internet,...
240. @}-->-- 3 roses Tanki X (2016 - 2020)
the players would not move. alternativaplatform spent years building a unity client to carry tanki online past flash,...
241. @}-->-- 3 roses Telltale Games (2004 - 2018)
telltale was founded in july 2004 by three former lucasarts adventure-game devs in san rafael, california. the walking...
242. @}-->-- 3 roses The Real Tooth Fairies (2008 - 2017)
the kids' tooth fairy site. you took a quiz, got matched to one of six fairies, and got to explore their world. each...
243. @}-->-- 3 roses Thottbot (2001 - 2010)
bill dyess started thottbot in 2001 as an mmorpg news site and rebuilt it in 2004 as a searchable database for world of...
244. @}-->-- 3 roses 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...
245. @}-->-- 3 roses Toontown Online (2003 - 2013)
the disney mmo where you played a small cartoon dog or cat or rabbit fighting off business-suit robots called cogs. it...
246. @}-->-- 3 roses TrueCrypt (2004 - 2014)
the free disk encryption tool that ran on windows and macos and linux for ten years and was the default answer for...
247. @}-->-- 3 roses 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...
248. @}-->-- 3 roses 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...
249. @}-->-- 3 roses Wii Shop Channel (2006 - 2019)
nintendo's downloadable storefront on the wii. opened with the console november 19 2006. you bought wii points with a...
250. @}-->-- 3 roses 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...
251. @}-->-- 3 roses 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...
252. @}-->-- 3 roses Xoom (the original) (1996 - 2001)
the third or fourth tier free homepage host of the late 1990s. behind geocities and tripod in scale but in the same...
253. @}-->-- 3 roses 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...
254. @}-->-- 3 roses 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...
255. @}-->-- 3 roses YouTube Rewind (2010 - 2019)
youtube rewind was the platform's annual year-in-review tradition that ran from december 2010 through december 2019....
256. @}-->-- 3 roses Zippyshare (2006 - 2023)
zippyshare was the polish-run cyberlocker that lived from 2006 to 2023. forty-five million monthly visits at its peak....
257. @}-->-- 2 roses 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...
258. @}-->-- 2 roses 2channel (2ch.net) (1999 - 2014)
2channel was japan's canonical anonymous textboard, launched may 30 1999 by hiroyuki nishimura from a college apartment...
259. @}-->-- 2 roses 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...
260. @}-->-- 2 roses Adobe Atmosphere (1999 - 2004)
adobe atmosphere was a browser plug-in for navigating 3d worlds in internet explorer. the technology came from attitude...
261. @}-->-- 2 roses Adobe FreeHand (1988 - 2007)
freehand started at altsys in 1988 and passed through aldus and macromedia before adobe inherited it in the 2005...
262. @}-->-- 2 roses Adobe ImageReady (1998 - 2007)
imageready was the half of photoshop that handled the web. animated gifs, sliced table-layout images, rollover hover...
263. @}-->-- 2 roses Adobe Shockwave Player (1995 - 2019)
shockwave was the heavier cousin of flash. you needed it for certain web games and certain interactive sites that...
264. @}-->-- 2 roses Advogato (1999 - 2016)
advogato was the free software world's reputation lab, built by raph levien in 1999. instead of every account counting...
265. @}-->-- 2 roses AnimeNation (1995 - 2014)
the anime mail-order house out of clearwater florida. gene field opened it in 1995, ran it for twenty years, and shut...
266. @}-->-- 2 roses Apple AirPort (1999 - 2018)
apple airport was the home wifi router that mac households bought because it looked like apple hardware and worked with...
267. @}-->-- 2 roses Apple Bandai Pippin (1996 - 1997)
the apple bandai pippin was a six-hundred-dollar internet-and-multimedia console with a game library nobody wanted....
268. @}-->-- 2 roses 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...
269. @}-->-- 2 roses Archetyp Market (2020 - 2025)
three hundred officers in germany, the netherlands, romania, spain and sweden moved between 11 and 13 june 2025, and...
270. @}-->-- 2 roses Assustador (1999 - 2015)
16,899,217 visits in february 2004, every one of them through a front page that was half legal disclaimer and half...
271. @}-->-- 2 roses Atlassian Stride (2017 - 2019)
stride was atlassian's rebuild-from-scratch answer to slack, the supposed future of team chat at the company that...
272. @}-->-- 2 roses 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...
273. @}-->-- 2 roses BearShare (2000 - 2016)
bearshare was the gnutella client that lived on after napster died. december 2000 launch, riaa settlement in may 2006...
274. @}-->-- 2 roses Blockbuster (1985 - 2014)
blockbuster opened its first store in dallas in october 1985 and grew into a 9000-store chain by the mid-2000s. it...
275. @}-->-- 2 roses Boxee (2008 - 2014)
boxee was the media-center software (and later set-top box) that tried to be the netflix-of-everything before netflix...
276. @}-->-- 2 roses Brunching Shuttlecocks (1997 - 2003)
lore sjöberg and dave neilsen launched brunching shuttlecocks in june 1997 as one of the early text-and-image personal...
277. @}-->-- 2 roses CIAYO Comics (2016 - 2020)
indonesia had a comics industry that never recovered from the nineties, and ciayo tried to restart it by paying artists...
278. @}-->-- 2 roses 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...
279. @}-->-- 2 roses Comic Genesis (Keenspace) (2000 - 2019)
comic genesis was the free webcomic hosting platform keenspot launched in june 2000 as keenspace. it ran as the...
280. @}-->-- 2 roses Crackle (2007 - 2024)
crackle was the avod that existed before avod was a category. sony's free ad-supported library, born from grouper...
281. @}-->-- 2 roses 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...
282. @}-->-- 2 roses Cryptocat (2011 - 2019)
cryptocat launched may 19, 2011 as a browser-extension encrypted chat written in javascript by nadim kobeissi out of...
283. @}-->-- 2 roses CueCat (2000 - 2001)
the cat-shaped barcode reader. dotcom-era brain product. you would get one free with your wired or forbes magazine. you...
284. @}-->-- 2 roses 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...
285. @}-->-- 2 roses DatPiff (2005 - 2023)
datpiff was where the mixtape went after it stopped being a physical object. free to upload and free to download, with...
286. @}-->-- 2 roses Demonoid (2003 - 2018)
the semi-private bittorrent tracker that ran on invite codes and strict ratio enforcement, with a forum culture more...
287. @}-->-- 2 roses Drop (Massdrop) (2012 - 2026)
massdrop launched in 2012 to fix something forums were bad at, which was organizing a group buy that actually arrived....
288. @}-->-- 2 roses DSi Shop (2008 - 2017)
dsi shop was the digital storefront baked into the nintendo dsi when the handheld launched in late 2008. you bought...
289. @}-->-- 2 roses 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...
290. @}-->-- 2 roses easyInternetCafé (1999 - 2009)
easyinternetcafe was stelios haji-ioannou's bet that the internet cafe would become a high-street utility, the same way...
291. @}-->-- 2 roses eDonkey2000 (2000 - 2006)
edonkey2000 was the first p2p client that pulled a file from many users at once instead of one. it ran on its own...
292. @}-->-- 2 roses EmuParadise (2000 - 2018)
emuparadise pulled its entire rom and iso library on 9 august 2018, eighteen years after founder masj started it in...
293. @}-->-- 2 roses Encyclopedia Dramatica (2004 - 2011)
on 14 april 2011 sherrod degrippo pointed encyclopediadramatica.com at a clean new site called oh internet and said...
294. @}-->-- 2 roses Eroshare (2007 - 2017)
for ten years eroshare was where people put adult photos and video that no general-purpose host would accept, and by...
295. @}-->-- 2 roses Eudora (1988 - 2006)
eudora was the email client steve dorner wrote at the university of illinois in 1988, named after the southern writer...
296. @}-->-- 2 roses Excite@Home (1996 - 2001)
excite@home was the company that made cable broadband real in the us before cable broadband was a thing. then it paid...
297. @}-->-- 2 roses Experience Project (2007 - 2016)
a place built for people who needed to say something they could not say under their own name. it started as a support...
298. @}-->-- 2 roses FEARnet (2006 - 2014)
fearnet was a us-only thing at the cable-licensing layer. comcast plus lionsgate plus sony pictures launched it on...
299. @}-->-- 2 roses FiveThirtyEight (2008 - 2025)
fivethirtyeight launched on march 7 2008 as a side blog by nate silver, an analyst from baseball prospectus who wanted...
300. @}-->-- 2 roses Flip Video (2006 - 2011)
the flip was a pocket camcorder for a window of about three years between the death of the camcorder and the camera...
301. @}-->-- 2 roses FortuneCity (1997 - 2012)
fortunecity launched in 1997 as the british answer to geocities and angelfire, organized around themed cities you...
302. @}-->-- 2 roses FriendFeed (2007 - 2015)
the social aggregator that pulled together your activity from twenty other services (twitter, flickr, last.fm,...
303. @}-->-- 2 roses Funimation (1994 - 2024)
funimation started on may 9 1994 in decatur texas. gen fukunaga and his wife cindy founded the company with funding...
304. @}-->-- 2 roses GamePro (print) (1989 - 2011)
the other big multi-platform us gaming print magazine of the genesis-snes generation. first issue april 1989, founded...
305. @}-->-- 2 roses Games for Windows Live (2007 - 2014)
microsoft's idea of bringing xbox live to pc games. it forced you to make a microsoft account just to save your single...
306. @}-->-- 2 roses GetRight (1997 - 2011)
getright did one thing that mattered enormously on a dial-up modem, it let you resume a download that had died halfway....
307. @}-->-- 2 roses go90 (2015 - 2018)
go90 was verizon's attempt to be the place us millennials watched short video on their phones. the name referenced...
308. @}-->-- 2 roses goo blog (2004 - 2025)
ntt docomo gave the reason for this one in corporate plain text: concentrating management resources after changes in...
309. @}-->-- 2 roses 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...
310. @}-->-- 2 roses 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...
311. @}-->-- 2 roses GotFrag (2002 - 2015)
the counter-strike news site, started in 2002, back when competitive gaming had no press of its own and no name anyone...
312. @}-->-- 2 roses GovWorks.com (1998 - 2001)
govworks raised seventy million dollars to let americans pay parking tickets through a website. the camera crew filming...
313. @}-->-- 2 roses Groovera (2003 - 2020)
an internet radio station with six channels of downtempo and lounge, run from a living room in seattle by one person...
314. @}-->-- 2 roses 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....
315. @}-->-- 2 roses Hellgate - London (2007 - 2009)
hellgate london was the diablo team's first act after they left blizzard. it was supposed to be the next great...
316. @}-->-- 2 roses 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...
317. @}-->-- 2 roses Hi5 (2003 - 2018)
the social network that was massive in turkey from 2005 to 2009. before Facebook localized to turkish and took the...
318. @}-->-- 2 roses Himado (2009 - 2025)
the last working days were the end of january 2025, and no announcement followed, because there was nobody whose job it...
319. @}-->-- 2 roses HotFile (2006 - 2013)
the second cyberlocker shoe to drop. ran the megaupload economic model from a panama shell with anton titov operating...
320. @}-->-- 2 roses Hotline (1997 - 2001)
hotline was what mac users used to share files between 1997 and 2001, before napster made the same thing easier on...
321. @}-->-- 2 roses HP 200LX (1994 - 1999)
hp shipped the 200lx in august 1994: a palmtop running ms-dos 5.0 with a tiny qwerty keyboard and lotus 1-2-3 in rom....
322. @}-->-- 2 roses InkBall (2004 - 2009)
inkball shipped in august 2004 inside windows xp tablet pc edition 2005, a puzzle game whose only control was a line...
323. @}-->-- 2 roses Is Anyone Up? (2010 - 2012)
is anyone up ran for about eighteen months on one cruel format. somebody submitted a naked photograph of a person they...
324. @}-->-- 2 roses JournalFen (2003 - 2015)
fandom wank was founded on livejournal in october 2002 and deleted for harassment complaints in january 2003. it went...
325. @}-->-- 2 roses 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...
326. @}-->-- 2 roses KissAnime (2012 - 2020)
the largest pirate anime site of the 2010s. eight years of subbed and dubbed catalogs running on a wordpress-shaped...
327. @}-->-- 2 roses Kuro5hin (1999 - 2016)
kuro5hin (pronounced corrosion) was a collaborative-edited news and discussion site founded in december 1999 by rusty...
328. @}-->-- 2 roses LaserDisc (1978 - 2009)
laserdisc was the first consumer optical video format. it shipped in atlanta in december 1978 as mca discovision,...
329. @}-->-- 2 roses Letitbit (2007 - 2016)
registered in the seychelles and cyprus, hosted in the netherlands. letitbit opened in 2007 promising unlimited file...
330. @}-->-- 2 roses Line Mode Browser (1991 - 1995)
berners-lee's own browser only ran on a next machine, of which there were a few thousand on earth, so the web needed a...
331. @}-->-- 2 roses Lurkmore (2007 - 2022)
lurkmore was the russian internet explaining itself to itself, a mediawiki encyclopedia of memes and imageboard slang...
332. @}-->-- 2 roses Mac OS 9 (1999 - 2002)
mac os 9 was the last of the classic mac os releases, the end of the system 7 lineage that had been running on apple...
333. @}-->-- 2 roses Maemo (2005 - 2010)
maemo was the linux distribution nokia built for its internet tablet line starting in november 2005 with the nokia 770....
334. @}-->-- 2 roses ManBeef.com (2001 - 2002)
manbeef.com went up on 4 january 2001 selling human flesh by the cut, with recipes underneath and a merchandise page at...
335. @}-->-- 2 roses Mandriva Linux (1998 - 2015)
the linux you put on your computer in the early 2000s if you wanted to leave windows without leaving the desktop....
336. @}-->-- 2 roses 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...
337. @}-->-- 2 roses Meebo (2005 - 2012)
meebo launched in september 2005 from a three-person founding team in palo alto. it was an in-browser front-end for...
338. @}-->-- 2 roses 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...
339. @}-->-- 2 roses Microsoft Bob (1995 - 1996)
microsoft's 1995 attempt to replace the windows desktop with a cartoon house, where each room was an application and...
340. @}-->-- 2 roses Microsoft Kinect (2010 - 2017)
the depth-sensing camera bar for xbox 360 and xbox one. shipped november 2010, hit 8 million units in 60 days, the...
341. @}-->-- 2 roses Microsoft Visual Basic 6 (1998 - 2008)
visual basic 6 launched in mid 1998 and became the most popular programming language in the world by tiobe count for...
342. @}-->-- 2 roses Minitel (1980 - 2012)
the french national online network. you got a small terminal for free from the post office. you typed 3615 plus a...
343. @}-->-- 2 roses Mozilla Persona (2011 - 2016)
persona was a mozilla foundation project launched july 2011 under the name browserid, a decentralized authentication...
344. @}-->-- 2 roses MP3.com (1997 - 2008)
this was the place where bands uploaded their own mp3s, before anyone really knew what to do about music on the...
345. @}-->-- 2 roses Multimania (1997 - 2003)
the GeoCities of france. free web hosting in exchange for a banner ad at the top of your page. millions of personal...
346. @}-->-- 2 roses 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...
347. @}-->-- 2 roses nARTBOX (엔아트박스) (2000 - 2010)
a korean stationery chain spent the first decade of the 2000s running a website where you sent animated greeting cards...
348. @}-->-- 2 roses Nasza-Klasa (2006 - 2021)
nasza-klasa launched on november 11, 2006 from wrocław. four computer-science students at the university of wrocław...
349. @}-->-- 2 roses 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...
350. @}-->-- 2 roses NBCi (1999 - 2001)
NBCi was an old tv network's attempt to be a web portal in 1999, stitched together from snap.com plus xoom.com plus a...
351. @}-->-- 2 roses NEC PC-9800 Series (1982 - 2003)
nec shipped the pc-9801 in october 1982 and then spent a decade owning japanese computing, past sixty percent of the...
352. @}-->-- 2 roses 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...
353. @}-->-- 2 roses Nexopia (2003 - 2023)
nexopia was a canadian teen social network started in edmonton in february 2003 by an eighteen-year-old named timo...
354. @}-->-- 2 roses NIFTY-Serve (1987 - 2006)
nifty-serve sat in the part of internet history i can read about but cannot personally remember. it was the japanese...
355. @}-->-- 2 roses Nova Launcher (2011 - 2025)
nova launcher was the answer for fourteen years to the question "which third-party launcher should i use on android"....
356. @}-->-- 2 roses OiNK's Pink Palace (2004 - 2007)
oink's pink palace was a private bittorrent tracker founded by alan ellis in may 2004. it ran out of northeast england...
357. @}-->-- 2 roses Origami Flowers (2009 - 2017)
the small mobile flower-growing series. you tended an origami rose, daisy, iris, orchid, sunflower, or tulip. the games...
358. @}-->-- 2 roses Outlook Express (1996 - 2007)
outlook express was the email program preinstalled on every windows machine for ten years. nobody bought it because...
359. @}-->-- 2 roses 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...
360. @}-->-- 2 roses 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...
361. @}-->-- 2 roses Path (2010 - 2018)
the social network with a 50-friend cap. founded by an early facebook employee. the pitch was that big networks are...
362. @}-->-- 2 roses PC Magazine (print) (1982 - 2009)
ziff-davis's flagship pc magazine, the one whose ad-page count in any given month of 1996 was thicker than most short...
363. @}-->-- 2 roses 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,...
364. @}-->-- 2 roses Picasa (2002 - 2016)
the desktop photo organizer that managed every digital camera dump for a decade. you plugged in the camera and picasa...
365. @}-->-- 2 roses PlayStation Home (2008 - 2015)
playstation home was sony's answer to second life, except attached to a console you already owned and a network you...
366. @}-->-- 2 roses 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...
367. @}-->-- 2 roses Polyvore (2007 - 2018)
polyvore was the place a generation of women learned to think in mood boards before instagram and pinterest were the...
368. @}-->-- 2 roses 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...
369. @}-->-- 2 roses PowerAnimator (1988 - 1999)
the liquid metal man in terminator 2 cost about 460 thousand dollars a minute of screen time, and he was modeled and...
370. @}-->-- 2 roses Prodigy (1984 - 1999)
one of the three big dial-up online services in the US, alongside compuserve and aol. it was a walled garden with...
371. @}-->-- 2 roses QIP (2005 - 2014)
qip stood for quiet internet pager and shipped its first build on november 1 2005 from ilgam zyulkorneev as a...
372. @}-->-- 2 roses Rabb.it (2014 - 2019)
rabb.it let strangers and friends share a virtual browser and watch the same video together with voice and webcam in...
373. @}-->-- 2 roses RadioShack (1921 - 2017)
radioshack started in 1921 in boston as a marine-radio supply shop and peaked at over 8,000 stores in 1999 with a...
374. @}-->-- 2 roses 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...
375. @}-->-- 2 roses RapidShare (2002 - 2015)
rapidshare was the link in the email forward and the link in the forum post. it was the url a friend on msn would send...
376. @}-->-- 2 roses RateBeer (2000 - 2025)
bill buchanan started ratebeer in may 2000 and joe tucker ended up owning it. for twenty five years it was the...
377. @}-->-- 2 roses 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...
378. @}-->-- 2 roses RealArcade (2001 - 2009)
realnetworks built a casual games portal in 2001 and bolted it onto the realplayer install on every windows machine in...
379. @}-->-- 2 roses 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...
380. @}-->-- 2 roses Renren (2005 - 2024)
renren was china's facebook for the late 2000s university generation. it launched in december 2005 as xiaonei.com...
381. @}-->-- 2 roses 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...
382. @}-->-- 2 roses Russian Anonymous Marketplace (2012 - 2017)
ramp opened in september 2012, a year and a half after silk road, and it was still running when every market that had...
383. @}-->-- 2 roses Samsung Galaxy Note 7 (2016 - 2016)
the samsung galaxy note 7 was the flagship android phone of 2016 for about seven weeks. batteries began igniting in...
384. @}-->-- 2 roses Scrub The Web (1996 - 2017)
twenty one years of taking url submissions ended with a line on the front page saying the domain was for sale and the...
385. @}-->-- 2 roses Sega Saturn (1994 - 2000)
the saturn won japan and lost everywhere else. 9.26 million units total, more than half of them in japan. its dual-cpu...
386. @}-->-- 2 roses SETI@home (1999 - 2020)
seti@home was a berkeley screensaver that borrowed idle cpu time from home pcs to sift arecibo radio data for...
387. @}-->-- 2 roses Slingbox (2005 - 2022)
the slingbox plugged into your home cable receiver and let you watch your living-room channels from any laptop in the...
388. @}-->-- 2 roses Spinrilla (2013 - 2023)
fifty million dollars and a worldwide ban on ever building anything like it again. that was the price jeffery copeland...
389. @}-->-- 2 roses 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...
390. @}-->-- 2 roses TechTV (1998 - 2004)
the cable channel about being on a computer. ziff-davis launched it as zdtv in may 1998 and renamed it techtv in 2000....
391. @}-->-- 2 roses The Sims Online (2002 - 2008)
the sims online launched december 17, 2002 from maxis and ea. it was the sims you knew from the boxed game, except your...
392. @}-->-- 2 roses The World Weekly (2013 - 2018)
seventy-five thousand free copies went out at london members' clubs and transport hubs in january 2013, backed by three...
393. @}-->-- 2 roses TinyLetter (2010 - 2024)
tinyletter was a one-person newsletter app launched in november 2010 by philip kaplan (pud, of fuckedcompany.com). it...
394. @}-->-- 2 roses Tlen.pl (2001 - 2016)
tlen.pl launched in october 2001 from grupa o2 in poland as a desktop instant messenger meant to compete with the...
395. @}-->-- 2 roses 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...
396. @}-->-- 2 roses Tucows Downloads (1993 - 2021)
tucows downloads was the shareware mirror canon. founded in 1993 in flint, michigan as 'the ultimate collection of...
397. @}-->-- 2 roses Tuenti (2006 - 2016)
tuenti was spain's facebook between 2009 and 2012, with fifteen million registered users at peak and an estimated...
398. @}-->-- 2 roses Turntable.fm (2011 - 2013)
turntable.fm launched in may 2011 from new york with a single great idea. you walked into a virtual room and sat at one...
399. @}-->-- 2 roses 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...
400. @}-->-- 2 roses 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...
401. @}-->-- 2 roses Twitterrific (2007 - 2023)
the iconfactory shipped twitterrific for the mac on 15 january 2007, less than a year after twitter launched. it...
402. @}-->-- 2 roses VampireFreaks (1999 - 2020)
vampirefreaks was the goth and industrial subculture's online home for two decades. jet berelson started it in 1999 out...
403. @}-->-- 2 roses VisiCalc (1979 - 1985)
visicalc was the first killer app. dan bricklin and bob frankston shipped it through software arts on october 17, 1979...
404. @}-->-- 2 roses Volition (1996 - 2023)
the studio that made saints row, plus red faction and freespace before that, then got passed through thq and koch and...
405. @}-->-- 2 roses Votrax (1971 - 1994)
a screw manufacturer in detroit owned the first cheap speech chip. federal screw works licensed richard gagnon's...
406. @}-->-- 2 roses WebObjects (1996 - 2016)
webobjects was the apple piece of the late-nineties java web stack. next first shipped it in march 1996 for fifty...
407. @}-->-- 2 roses 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...
408. @}-->-- 2 roses WinMX (2000 - 2005)
winmx was a windows program that did one job. it found mp3s on other people's computers and let you queue them up. the...
409. @}-->-- 2 roses Xanga (1998 - 2013)
the US blog platform that was huge in american high schools from 2002 to 2007. eprops, subscriptions to your friends'...
410. @}-->-- 2 roses Yahoo Avatars (2004 - 2013)
yahoo avatars was the cartoon character creator that launched in may 2004 alongside yahoo messenger 6. you built a...
411. @}-->-- 2 roses Yahoo Squirrel / Yahoo Together (2018 - 2019)
squirrel was an invite-only group messaging app yahoo opened in closed beta on may 8, 2018, two months before pulling...
412. @}-->-- 2 roses Yahoo! 360° (2005 - 2009)
yahoo 360 was yahoo's social network in the years yahoo was supposed to be turning into a portal company. it launched...
413. @}-->-- 2 roses Yik Yak (2013 - 2017)
the anonymous location-based message board. you opened the app, you saw posts from users physically near you (within...
414. @}-->-- 2 roses 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...
415. @}-->-- 2 roses Zeus Web Server (1995 - 2014)
two cambridge undergraduates wrote a web server in 1995 that beat apache on almost every benchmark anyone ran, and then...
416. @}-->-- 2 roses 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...

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