Web Technologies & Tools

Plugins, formats, readers, bookmarking and link tools that the web moved past.

12 projects

goo.gl Google's link shortener, and the day old links died 2009–2025 Web Technologies & Tools Google Toolbar The search box in the browser, with the PageRank meter, from Internet Explorer 5 to a quiet death in 2021 2000–2021 Web Technologies & Tools Microsoft Silverlight The Flash rival that outlived its purpose 2007–2021 Web Technologies & Tools Adobe Flash The plugin that animated the web 1996–2020 Web Technologies & Tools 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 StumbleUpon The serendipity button 2002–2018 Web Technologies & Tools 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 Delicious The web's shared memory 2003–2017 Web Technologies & Tools iGoogle Your homepage, back when you had one 2005–2013 Web Technologies & Tools Google Reader The web, in one place 2005–2013 Web Technologies & Tools Google Wave Email, reinvented too hard 2009–2012 Web Technologies & Tools 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