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. 269 projects documented, every claim sourced.
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Yo
An app that said one word, raised a million dollars, and became the whole 2014 app economy in miniature
2014–2016
Mobile Apps
Google Spaces
Google's small-group sharing app that lived for eleven months, which was short even for Google
2016–2017
Messengers
Hipmunk
The flight search that sorted by agony, bought by a corporate expense company and switched off while its founders were trying to buy it back
2010–2020
Online Services
Skype Qik
The live phone-video pioneer Skype paid $150 million for, shut down, relaunched as a messaging app, and shut down again
2007–2016
Mobile Apps
Veoh
The video site that beat Universal in court, went bankrupt two months later, and then took fourteen more years to actually die
2005–2024
Video & Streaming
Springpad
The smart notebook that turned everything you saved into something useful, loved by five million people and unable to pay for itself
2008–2014
Online Services
Google Sidewiki
A comment box Google bolted onto every website in the world, whether the owner wanted it or not
2009–2011
Online Services
Inbox by Gmail
Google's attempt to replace its own mail app, loved by the people who used it and closed after four and a half years
2014–2019
Email & Groups
Sparrow
The mail app people happily paid for, bought by Google and left to rot in the App Store
2011–2013
Email & Groups
Blip
Where web series lived before YouTube channels, bought by Maker Studios and deleted a year later
2005–2015
Video & Streaming
Revver
The first video site that paid the people who made the videos, sold to a company that stopped paying them
2005–2011
Video & Streaming
Vox
Six Apart's friendly blog for people who did not want to blog in public, closed four years later and its address sold to a media company
2006–2010
Blogging & Web Publishing
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Messengers
15
Social Networks
22
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5
Web Browsers
6
Email & Groups
6
Blogging & Web Publishing
8
Photo Sharing
5
Video & Streaming
18
Music Streaming
8
Media Players
4
File Sharing
14
Web Technologies & Tools
12
Online Services
21
E-commerce & Retail
10
Mobile Apps
16
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.