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. 246 projects documented, every claim sourced.

Died on this day

Google Video Google's own YouTube, made redundant the day Google bought YouTube 2005–2012 Video & Streaming Google Goggles Point your phone at a landmark, a book or a wine label and Google told you what it was, eight years before Lens replaced it 2009–2018 Mobile Apps

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Google Fusion Tables The free tool that let journalists and researchers turn a spreadsheet into a map, retired by Google in 2019 with no direct replacement 2009–2019 Web Technologies & Tools Miitomo Nintendo's first smartphone app: a Mii that asked you questions and told your friends the answers, switched off two years later 2016–2018 Mobile Apps Turntable.fm The site where strangers took turns DJing to a room of cartoon avatars, killed in 2013 by the price of the music it played 2011–2013 Music Streaming Formspring Ask me anything, anonymously: the Q and A site that reached 30 million accounts, then drowned in the harassment its own anonymity produced 2009–2013 Social Networks Bloglines The RSS reader that taught the web to subscribe, bought by Ask Jeeves in 2005 and switched off in 2010 after Google Reader took its readers 2003–2010 Web Technologies & Tools Technorati The search engine that ranked the blogosphere, whose Authority score every blogger checked daily, quietly switched off in 2014 when the conversation moved to Twitter 2002–2014 Search Engines & Directories Emojli The social network where your username and every message had to be emoji, built as a joke, closed eleven months later 2014–2015 Social Networks Google Blob Emoji Android's yellow blobs, the only emoji set that looked like nothing else, flattened into circles by Android 8.0 in 2017 2013–2017 Web Technologies & Tools i-mode The world's first mass-market mobile internet, launched in Japan in 1999 with 176 tiny pictures that became emoji, switched off in March 2026 1999–2026 Online Services Meerkat The live streaming app that owned SXSW 2015 until Twitter bought Periscope and cut off its friend graph 2015–2016 Video & Streaming Twitter Fleets Twitter's disappearing posts, built to make quiet users braver, dead in under nine months 2020–2021 Social Networks IGTV Instagram's vertical answer to YouTube, launched with an orange button nobody pressed and folded into Reels 2018–2022 Video & Streaming

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Messengers 13 Social Networks 20 Search Engines & Directories 4 Web Browsers 6 Email & Groups 4 Blogging & Web Publishing 7 Photo Sharing 4 Video & Streaming 15 Music Streaming 7 Media Players 4 File Sharing 14 Web Technologies & Tools 12 Online Services 16 E-commerce & Retail 10 Mobile Apps 11 Desktop Software 10 Operating Systems 11 Developer Tools 7 Reference & Learning 5 Games 10 Game Platforms & Services 9 Consoles & Handhelds 16 Phones & Tablets 12 Gadgets & Hardware 10 VR & AR 5 Storage & Media Formats 4

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.