Died in 2020
14 projects
Microsoft Security Essentials
The free antivirus Microsoft gave Windows XP, Vista and 7 users in 2009, retired with Windows 7 in January 2020
2009–2020
Desktop Software
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
Essential Phone
Android's creator builds a phone: $699, titanium, and about 90,000 buyers
2017–2020
Phones & Tablets
Wunderlist
The to-do app Microsoft bought to bury
2010–2020
Mobile Apps
Jet.com
Walmart paid $3 billion, then switched it off
2015–2020
E-commerce & Retail
Mixer
The $100 million assault on Twitch
2016–2020
Video & Streaming
Samsung Gear VR
The Oculus-powered headset you snapped a Galaxy into, retired when standalone VR arrived
2014–2020
VR & AR
Google Play Music
Your music locker, repossessed
2011–2020
Music Streaming
Quibi
$1.75 billion, six months, gone
2020–2020
Video & Streaming
Yahoo Groups
Where the internet organised itself
2001–2020
Email & Groups
Oculus Go
The $199 standalone headset Facebook dropped two years later for the Quest
2018–2020
VR & AR
Adobe Flash
The plugin that animated the web
1996–2020
Web Technologies & Tools
FarmVille
The game that colonised Facebook
2009–2020
Games
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