The Internet Graveyard
Sites that changed the web and then left it. Each one can still be visited as it was, thanks to the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine.
GeoCities
1994 – 2009
Under construction, forever.
Visit it in 1999 →StumbleUpon
2001 – 2018
Showed you a random corner of the web. We carry on the work.
Visit it in 2009 →Vine
2013 – 2017
Six seconds was all it needed.
Visit it in 2015 →Google Reader
2005 – 2013
Every feed, read. Still missed.
Visit it in 2010 →Google+
2011 – 2019
Had circles. Nobody came to them.
Visit it in 2013 →Friendster
2002 – 2015
The social network before the social network.
Visit it in 2004 →Delicious
2003 – 2017
Tagged, bookmarked, beloved.
Visit it in 2006 →Yahoo! Answers
2005 – 2021
Asked everything. Answered most of it, somehow.
Visit it in 2010 →AOL Instant Messenger
1997 – 2017
Away message: gone for good.
Visit it in 2005 →Orkut
2004 – 2014
Scrapbooks full of friends.
Visit it in 2008 →Google Wave
2009 – 2012
Too far ahead of its time to catch.
Visit it in 2010 →AltaVista
1995 – 2013
Searched the web before the web had a verb for it.
Visit it in 1999 →Encarta
1993 – 2009
An encyclopedia on a disc, then online, then nowhere.
Visit it in 2008 →Club Penguin
2005 – 2017
Waddled on.
Visit it in 2010 →Megaupload
2005 – 2012
Download complete.
Visit it in 2011 →Grooveshark
2006 – 2015
Played anything you asked for, until it could not.
Visit it in 2012 →Rdio
2010 – 2015
Beautiful, and gone too soon.
Visit it in 2013 →FriendFeed
2007 – 2015
Everything you posted everywhere, in one place.
Visit it in 2009 →Posterous
2008 – 2013
Blog by email. Reply to sender: undeliverable.
Visit it in 2011 →iGoogle
2005 – 2013
Your own little start page, with a theme.
Visit it in 2010 →Path
2010 – 2018
Kept to fifty friends. Ran out of time.
Visit it in 2014 →Google Hangouts
2013 – 2022
Hung up.
Visit it in 2016 →Stadia
2019 – 2023
Game over, refunds issued.
Visit it in 2021 →Quibi
2020 – 2020
Quick bites. Very quick.
Visit it in 2020 →Recently gone from NexURLs
Links our members shared that no longer answer. If one comes back, it returns to Next by itself.
- Useful Website to find unclaimed airdrops
- SI Vault
- YNAB Budgeting Guide
- Stripe Atlas Guides
- The Cut Fashion
- NerdWallet Calculators
- Rick Steves Travel Tips
- Senator David Perdue's Website
- Stayking Pool for FK Holders
- Global Migrant Stocks by Country
- With Great Concern: HTML5 Game on Vatican and WWII
- Apihouse: Free APIs for Web Development
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