Remember what the internet forgot.
An encyclopedia of apps, websites and platforms that shut down: who owned them, how big they got, and why they died. 113 projects documented, every claim sourced.
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NCSA Mosaic
Put the pictures in the page, and the web took off
1993–1997
Web Browsers
Wii U
13.5 million sold, and the ideas all survived it
2012–2024
Game Platforms
PlayStation Vita
The best handheld nobody supported
2011–2019
Game Platforms
Omegle
Talk to strangers, for fourteen years, until it could not be made safe
2009–2023
Messengers
Google Gears
Made the web work offline, then handed the idea to HTML5
2007–2011
Developer Tools
Firebug
Gave every browser the F12 key, then merged into them
2006–2017
Developer Tools
Yahoo! Pipes
Visual programming for the web, twelve years before it was fashionable
2007–2015
Developer Tools
Parse
500,000 apps had their back end switched off
2011–2017
Developer Tools
CodePlex
Microsoft's open source home, closed because GitHub won
2006–2017
Developer Tools
Atom
Killed by an editor built on the framework it invented
2014–2022
Developer Tools
Ello
"You Are Not a Product", then it took the venture money
2014–2023
Social Networks
App.net
Users paid for it, and it still was not enough
2012–2017
Blogging Platforms
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Messengers
10
Social Networks
12
Search Engines
2
Web Browsers
3
Media Players
7
File Sharing
14
Photo & Video
7
Blogging Platforms
9
Email Services
2
Mobile Apps
1
Operating Systems
2
Game Platforms
11
Web Technologies
9
Hardware
7
E-commerce
7
Developer Tools
6
Reference & Learning
1
Online Services
3
Structured, not folklore
Ownership chains, launch and shutdown dates, user numbers with confidence levels. Registered accounts are not active users, and we label the difference.
Sourced & archived
No claim enters the database without a source, and every source gets an archived copy. Read the methodology.
The numbers nobody keeps
Which company killed the most products? How long does an app live after being acquired? See the statistics.