{
  "type": "obituary",
  "publisher": "Rest In Print",
  "hall": "technology",
  "slug": "orkut",
  "subject": {
    "name": "Orkut",
    "maker": "Google"
  },
  "born": "2004-01-22",
  "died": "2014-09-30",
  "cause_of_death": "shutdown",
  "cause_description": "a quiet SIGTERM at the end of a sprint",
  "notice": [
    "Orkut died on September 30, 2014, at ten. It was enormous in Brazil and India and a rumour almost everywhere else.",
    "It let friends write testimonials about you, which is to say it let them write your obituary early.",
    "We would like to think it would have approved of this notice.",
    "It is survived by millions of scraps no one will read again."
  ],
  "in_lieu_of_flowers": "In lieu of flowers, leave a scrap.",
  "sources": [
    "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orkut",
    "https://www.medianama.com/2014/07/223-orkut-shut-down/"
  ],
  "url": "https://restinprint.studio/hall/orkut"
}