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. 240 projects documented, every claim sourced.

Died on this day

HP TouchPad Killed 49 days after launch 2011–2011 Phones & Tablets Palm Pre The comeback phone that invented the card interface and could not save Palm 2009–2011 Phones & Tablets

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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 Sunrise Calendar The calendar app everyone recommended, bought by Microsoft for about $100 million and dismantled into Outlook 2013–2016 Mobile Apps Mailbox The email app with the famous reservation queue, bought by Dropbox for about $100 million and shut down three years later 2013–2016 Email & Groups Storify The tool newsrooms used to turn tweets into stories, bought twice and closed by Adobe in 2018, taking thousands of embedded stories with it 2010–2018 Online Services Klout The site that scored your online influence from 1 to 100, sold for $200 million and switched off the week GDPR arrived 2008–2018 Social Networks Google Code Google's free host for open source projects, killed by GitHub and by the spammers who moved in when everyone else left 2006–2016 Developer Tools Dodgeball Text your location to a short code and find your friends nearby: the check-in before Foursquare, bought by Google in 2005 and abandoned in 2009 2003–2009 Social Networks

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Messengers 13 Social Networks 19 Search Engines & Directories 3 Web Browsers 6 Email & Groups 4 Blogging & Web Publishing 7 Photo Sharing 4 Video & Streaming 15 Music Streaming 6 Media Players 4 File Sharing 14 Web Technologies & Tools 10 Online Services 16 E-commerce & Retail 10 Mobile Apps 10 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.