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. 41 projects documented, every claim sourced.
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BlackBerry OS
The keyboard that ran the world
1999–2022
Operating Systems
Zune
Microsoft's answer to the iPod, five years late
2006–2015
Hardware
Club Penguin
A generation's first social network, with penguins
2005–2017
Game Platforms
Delicious
The web's shared memory
2003–2017
Web Technologies
StumbleUpon
The serendipity button
2002–2018
Web Technologies
Periscope
Live from anywhere, until the money ran out
2015–2021
Photo & Video
Rdio
The prettiest streaming service that ever lost
2010–2015
Media Players
Grooveshark
All the music, none of the licences
2007–2015
Media Players
AltaVista
Search, before Google
1995–2013
Search Engines
Picasa
Everyone's first photo library
2002–2016
Photo & Video
Megaupload
The file locker the FBI took down
2005–2012
File Sharing
Google Hangouts
One messenger to rule them all, briefly
2013–2022
Messengers
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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.