Section CPermanent EditionEst. 2026
Rest In Print
All the deaths that haven't happened yet. And a few that have.
The Hall of the Dead

Discontinued, with notice.

Obituaries for the software, services and devices that were shut down or discontinued. Most of them were somebody's default once. Each notice lists its sources.

  • Clippy1997 – 2007
    Clippy, the paperclip who watched you type, has died. It was ten.
  • Internet Explorer1995 – 2022-06-15
    Internet Explorer died on June 15, 2022, at 26. It had been unwell for most of that time.
  • Google Reader2005-10-07 – 2013-07-01
    Google Reader died on July 1, 2013. It was seven. Its owner cited declining usage; its users disagreed, loudly.
  • Yahoo Answers2005-12-13 – 2021-05-04
    Yahoo Answers died on May 4, 2021, at 15, having been asked everything and sure of nothing.
  • ICQ1996-11 – 2024-06-26
    ICQ died on June 26, 2024, at 27. Most of its friends assumed it had gone years earlier.
  • Vine2013-01-24 – 2017-01-17
    Vine died on January 17, 2017. It was almost four, and kept every story under six seconds, including its own.
  • Google+2011-06-28 – 2019-04-02
    Google+ died on April 2, 2019, at seven. The official cause was low engagement and a data leak, in that order.
  • Adobe Flash1996 – 2020-12-31
    Adobe Flash died on December 31, 2020, at 24. The date was announced three years in advance, which gave everyone time to do nothing.
  • MSN Messenger1999-07 – 2013-03-15
    MSN Messenger, later Windows Live Messenger, died on March 15, 2013, at 13. Outside China, at least. There it held on until October 2014.
  • Windows Phone2010-10 – 2020-01-14
    Windows Phone, in its last form Windows 10 Mobile, died on January 14, 2020, when support ended. It was nine.
  • Tay2016-03-23 – 2016-03-24
    Tay, a chatbot, was switched off on March 24, 2016, about sixteen hours after it went online.
  • Google Stadia2019-11-19 – 2023-01-18
    Stadia died on January 18, 2023, at three. Its games played in the cloud, and so, now, does it.
  • Orkut2004-01-22 – 2014-09-30
    Orkut died on September 30, 2014, at ten. It was enormous in Brazil and India and a rumour almost everywhere else.
  • AIM1997-05 – 2017-12-15
    AOL Instant Messenger died on December 15, 2017, at 20.
  • Netscape Navigator1994-12 – 2008-03-01
    Netscape Navigator died on March 1, 2008, when support ended. It was 13, and had been the internet, for a while, to most people.
  • BlackBerry OS1999 – 2022-01-04
    BlackBerry OS died on January 4, 2022, when its services were switched off. It was in its early twenties and made in Waterloo, Ontario, which this desk notes with some pride.
  • Google Wave2009-05-28 – 2012-04-30
    Google Wave died on April 30, 2012. It was two, and had been read-only since January.
  • Kinect2010-11-04 – 2017-10-25
    Kinect died on October 25, 2017, when manufacturing ended. It was six.
  • Zune2006-11-14 – 2015-11-15
    Zune died on November 15, 2015, when its services went dark. It was nine.
  • Quibi2020-04-06 – 2020-12-01
    Quibi died on December 1, 2020. It was eight months old and had raised close to two billion dollars.
  • Windows XP2001-10-25 – 2014-04-08
    Windows XP died on April 8, 2014, when support ended. It was 12 and still at work.
  • Skype2003-08-29 – 2025-05-05
    Skype died on May 5, 2025, at 21. Its users were moved to Teams, a sentence that does a lot of work.
  • Google Hangouts2013-05-15 – 2022-11-01
    Google Hangouts died on November 1, 2022, at nine, after a long illness caused by its own family.
  • Picasa2002 – 2016-03-15
    Picasa died on March 15, 2016, when development stopped. It was 14.
  • Google Podcasts2016 – 2024-04-02
    Google Podcasts stopped streaming in the United States on April 2, 2024, and in the rest of the world that summer. It was about eight.
  • Inbox by Gmail2014-10-22 – 2019-04-02
    Inbox by Gmail died on April 2, 2019, the same day as Google+, which the family insists was a coincidence.
  • Mixer2016-01 – 2020-07-22
    Mixer, born Beam, died on July 22, 2020, exactly a month after it was told. It was four.
  • Google Play Music2011-11-16 – 2020-12-03
    Google Play Music died on December 3, 2020, after a switch-off that took four months. It was nine.
  • WordPad1995 – 2024
    WordPad was removed from Windows in 2024, starting with Windows 11 version 24H2, after nearly three decades of being installed and not opened.
  • Cortana (Windows app)2014 – 2023-08
    Cortana stopped being supported as a standalone Windows app in August 2023. It was nine.
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