What Happened to StumbleUpon? Nothing Replaced the Button
A button that sent you somewhere you had not asked for. The reason nothing has replaced…
What Happened to Digg? Did Reddit Kill It, or Did Digg?
A redesign the users rejected, on a site whose entire value was the users' judgment. That…
What Happened to Friendster? Being First Was the Problem
It had the lead and lost it, then became a games site, then closed. The most…
What Happened to Yahoo Answers? Dates and Archive
Yahoo Answers shut on May 4, 2021 and the questions were deleted, not archived. The sourced…
What Happened to Vine? Shutdown, Archive, Revival
Twitter shut Vine's app in 2017 and its archive later vanished. The sourced timeline, and how…
What Happened to MySpace? The Sourced Timeline
MySpace never shut down. The sourced timeline: the $580m News Corp deal, the $35m sale, the…
The Old Web: Platforms That Shaped the Internet, Then Vanished
GeoCities, Friendster, Vine, Google Reader, AIM. Four ways a platform dies, and why almost none of…