Online Services

Dial-up providers, cloud services, assistants and other online services that were closed.

21 projects

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 AOL Dial-Up The modem noise stopped, AOL did not 1991–2025 Online Services Pocket Eighteen years of saved-for-later, gone before you read it 2007–2025 Online Services Amazon Drive Amazon's cloud locker, unlimited for $60 a year until it was not, closed at the end of 2023 in favour of Amazon Photos 2011–2023 Online Services Google Domains Google's no-nonsense domain registrar, out of beta for one year before it was sold to Squarespace 2014–2023 Online Services Cortana Microsoft's assistant, named after a Halo AI, retired for Copilot 2014–2023 Online Services Loon Alphabet's internet balloons, nine years in the stratosphere and one commercial customer, grounded in 2021 2013–2021 Online Services Google Cloud Print Print from anything to any printer over the internet: ten years in beta, then switched off at the end of 2020 2010–2020 Online Services 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 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 Ovi Nokia's "door" to internet services, an app store, maps, mail and music brand for the Symbian years, dropped in 2011 and closed for good in 2015 2007–2015 Online Services 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 MSN TV WebTV: the internet on your television through a set-top box, bought by Microsoft in 1997, switched off in 2013 1996–2013 Online Services Google Notebook Clip text and links from the web into online notebooks, from a 2006 browser extension to a 2012 export into Docs 2006–2012 Online Services MobileMe The Apple service Steve Jobs apologised for 2008–2012 Online Services Google Health Google tried to be the place you kept your medical records, found that almost nobody wanted one, and closed it in 2012 2008–2012 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 CompuServe The internet before the internet 1979–2009 Online Services Google Lively Google's cartoon chat rooms with avatars, launched in July 2008 and switched off on New Year's Eve the same year 2008–2008 Online Services Prodigy The IBM and Sears online service with the blue screens and the ads at the bottom, two million subscribers before the web, sold and sold again 1988–2001 Online Services GEnie General Electric's text-only online service, home of the RoundTables and the first big multiplayer games, sold twice and switched off for the year 2000 1985–1999 Online Services