# Still Up Since catalog

A wall of products that outlived the rumor they were finished.

Stamps are editorial. Standing / Wavering / Hollow / Closed map to still-up / wobbling / zombie / down.

## Still listed (110)

- **1Password** ([/1password](https://stillupsince.com/1password)) -- founded 2006-05-18, Standing. A password manager that families and companies both trust is a rare overlap.
- **Amazon** ([/amazon](https://stillupsince.com/amazon)) -- founded 1994-07-05, Standing. Logistics is the moat. The website is a storefront on a warehouse network.
- **Apache HTTP Server** ([/apache-http](https://stillupsince.com/apache-http)) -- founded 1995-12-01, Standing. It named the dominant server of the first web, and shared hosting never fully left.
- **AWS** ([/aws](https://stillupsince.com/aws)) -- founded 2006-03-14, Standing. S3 and EC2 became the nouns. Every other cloud is compared to them.
- **Basecamp** ([/basecamp](https://stillupsince.com/basecamp)) -- founded 2004-02-05, Standing. It is the product of a company that treats not growing as a feature.
- **Bash** ([/bash](https://stillupsince.com/bash)) -- founded 1989-06-08, Standing. It is the default shell on a billion machines even when it is not your login shell.
- **BBEdit** ([/bbedit](https://stillupsince.com/bbedit)) -- founded 1992-04-12, Standing. Bare Bones never tried to become an IDE platform. It stayed a text editor that is extremely good at text.
- **Bitcoin** ([/bitcoin](https://stillupsince.com/bitcoin)) -- founded 2009-01-03, Standing. It is a bearer asset with a fixed schedule and no CEO to subpoena into a pivot.
- **Bitwarden** ([/bitwarden](https://stillupsince.com/bitwarden)) -- founded 2016-08-10, Standing. Open source plus a hosted option plus a price that does not insult you.
- **Blender** ([/blender](https://stillupsince.com/blender)) -- founded 1994-01-02, Standing. The 2002 community buyout turned a doomed in-house tool into a public good. That origin story still funds it.
- **Google Chrome** ([/chrome](https://stillupsince.com/chrome)) -- founded 2008-09-02, Standing. It made the browser fast, then made the browser into an OS, then made the web into Chrome.
- **Cloudflare** ([/cloudflare](https://stillupsince.com/cloudflare)) -- founded 2010-09-27, Standing. It sat in front of the web as CDN + DNS + shield, then became a compute platform without asking you to leave.
- **Clubhouse** ([/clubhouse](https://stillupsince.com/clubhouse)) -- founded 2020-03-01, Hollow. A moment: invite-only audio in a pandemic. The domain is still resolving.
- **Craigslist** ([/craigslist](https://stillupsince.com/craigslist)) -- founded 1995-03-01, Standing. It looks like 1996 on purpose. The ugly is the filter. People who want to transact stay.
- **curl** ([/curl](https://stillupsince.com/curl)) -- founded 1997-11-11, Standing. It is in everything. Cars, printers, phones, install scripts, the kitchen sink.
- **Digg** ([/digg](https://stillupsince.com/digg)) -- founded 2004-12-01, Hollow. The name still means 'we redesigned and died' in every product meeting.
- **DigitalOcean** ([/digitalocean](https://stillupsince.com/digitalocean)) -- founded 2011-06-01, Standing. A droplet with a price you can hold in your head. That was the whole pitch versus AWS.
- **Discord** ([/discord](https://stillupsince.com/discord)) -- founded 2015-05-13, Standing. Voice that works plus a server as a home page. Games were the wedge. Everything else followed.
- **Django** ([/django](https://stillupsince.com/django)) -- founded 2005-07-21, Standing. Batteries included is still a selling point after twenty years of microframeworks.
- **Docker** ([/docker](https://stillupsince.com/docker)) -- founded 2013-03-20, Standing. A Dockerfile is a unit of thought. Kubernetes did not replace that noun.
- **Dropbox** ([/dropbox](https://stillupsince.com/dropbox)) -- founded 2007-06-01, Wavering. The folder that syncs was a magic trick in 2008 and is still the mental model.
- **DuckDuckGo** ([/duckduckgo](https://stillupsince.com/duckduckgo)) -- founded 2008-09-25, Standing. Privacy as a default is a brand you can actually feel in the settings.
- **eBay** ([/ebay](https://stillupsince.com/ebay)) -- founded 1995-09-03, Standing. Auctions plus used goods plus collectibles is a graph Facebook Marketplace still cannot fully price.
- **Emacs** ([/emacs](https://stillupsince.com/emacs)) -- founded 1976-03-01, Standing. It is a Lisp machine that happens to edit text, so every generation reimplements their life inside it.
- **Email** ([/email](https://stillupsince.com/email)) -- founded 1971-10-01, Standing. It is the only identity layer the internet agreed on.
- **Evernote** ([/evernote](https://stillupsince.com/evernote)) -- founded 2008-06-24, Hollow. Elephant brand recognition and a pile of old notebooks people are afraid to export.
- **Facebook** ([/facebook](https://stillupsince.com/facebook)) -- founded 2004-02-04, Wavering. The social graph of people over 30, plus Marketplace, Groups, and WhatsApp as the actual prize.
- **FFmpeg** ([/ffmpeg](https://stillupsince.com/ffmpeg)) -- founded 2000-12-20, Standing. Every video product is FFmpeg with a UI. Including the ones that will not say so.
- **Figma** ([/figma](https://stillupsince.com/figma)) -- founded 2016-09-27, Standing. Multiplayer design in a browser ended the 'final.psd' era.
- **Firefox** ([/firefox](https://stillupsince.com/firefox)) -- founded 2004-11-09, Wavering. It is the last major browser engine that is not Chromium or WebKit, and that matters even when share is small.
- **Flickr** ([/flickr](https://stillupsince.com/flickr)) -- founded 2004-02-10, Hollow. Photographers who refuse Instagram still have originals there.
- **Ghost** ([/ghost](https://stillupsince.com/ghost)) -- founded 2013-10-14, Standing. A nonprofit CMS that is also a membership business. Writers who outgrew a newsletter still land here.
- **Git** ([/git](https://stillupsince.com/git)) -- founded 2005-04-07, Standing. Linus wrote it in anger in a few days and the distributed model made every other VCS look centralised and slow.
- **GitHub** ([/github](https://stillupsince.com/github)) -- founded 2008-04-10, Standing. It is where the code is. Resume, package registry, CI, identity, and the social graph of software.
- **Gmail** ([/gmail](https://stillupsince.com/gmail)) -- founded 2004-04-01, Standing. A gigabyte of free storage in 2004 was a weapon. Search-as-the-model still is.
- **Go** ([/go](https://stillupsince.com/go)) -- founded 2009-11-10, Standing. A Google language that is boring on purpose. Boring compiled to a single binary is a career.
- **Google Maps** ([/google-maps](https://stillupsince.com/google-maps)) -- founded 2005-02-08, Standing. The default for 'how do I get there' on Android and in the browser.
- **Google Search** ([/google](https://stillupsince.com/google)) -- founded 1998-09-04, Wavering. It is still the default, and defaults on phones are a government.
- **Gumroad** ([/gumroad](https://stillupsince.com/gumroad)) -- founded 2011-01-01, Standing. Sahil Lavingia kept it alive through a near-death and turned that into the company story.
- **Hacker News** ([/hacker-news](https://stillupsince.com/hacker-news)) -- founded 2007-02-19, Standing. It is ugly, slow to change, and moderated like a dinner party. That is the filter.
- **Heroku** ([/heroku](https://stillupsince.com/heroku)) -- founded 2007-01-01, Hollow. git push heroku main taught a generation what PaaS felt like. That memory still sells the brand.
- **HEY** ([/hey](https://stillupsince.com/hey)) -- founded 2020-06-15, Wavering. A point of view: the Screener, the Feed, the Imbox. Email as a product again.
- **Homebrew** ([/homebrew](https://stillupsince.com/homebrew)) -- founded 2009-05-20, Standing. It is how a Mac gets Unix software. That sentence has been true for a long time.
- **ICQ** ([/icq](https://stillupsince.com/icq)) -- founded 1996-11-15, Hollow. The number. People still remember their ICQ UIN the way they remember a first phone number.
- **Instagram** ([/instagram](https://stillupsince.com/instagram)) -- founded 2010-10-06, Standing. It owns a format (the square, then the story, then the reel) and a kind of identity.
- **Internet Archive** ([/internet-archive](https://stillupsince.com/internet-archive)) -- founded 1996-05-12, Standing. It is the memory of the web, and even companies that sue it still need the Wayback Machine.
- **IRC** ([/irc](https://stillupsince.com/irc)) -- founded 1988-08-01, Standing. It is a protocol, not a company, so there is no acquisition to survive.
- **JavaScript** ([/javascript](https://stillupsince.com/javascript)) -- founded 1995-12-04, Standing. It is the only language the web runtime will not let you uninstall.
- **Jira** ([/jira](https://stillupsince.com/jira)) -- founded 2002-04-12, Standing. Enterprises do not migrate issue trackers. They hire admins.
- **jQuery** ([/jquery](https://stillupsince.com/jquery)) -- founded 2006-08-26, Hollow. It is still on a terrifying number of pages because WordPress plugins and old dashboards never die.
- **Kickstarter** ([/kickstarter](https://stillupsince.com/kickstarter)) -- founded 2009-04-28, Standing. All-or-nothing crowdfunding plus a public page is still how a certain kind of object gets born.
- **Kubernetes** ([/kubernetes](https://stillupsince.com/kubernetes)) -- founded 2014-06-07, Standing. Google donated the Borg-shaped idea and every cloud had to speak it.
- **Laravel** ([/laravel](https://stillupsince.com/laravel)) -- founded 2011-06-09, Standing. It made PHP feel like a modern framework again: artisan, Eloquent, the docs, the people.
- **LastPass** ([/lastpass](https://stillupsince.com/lastpass)) -- founded 2008-09-01, Hollow. Inertia. Vaults are sticky even after you no longer trust the landlord.
- **Linear** ([/linear](https://stillupsince.com/linear)) -- founded 2019-01-01, Standing. It made issue tracking feel like a product instead of a database with workflow.
- **LinkedIn** ([/linkedin](https://stillupsince.com/linkedin)) -- founded 2003-05-05, Standing. It is the resume that other people can see, and hiring still starts there.
- **Linux** ([/linux](https://stillupsince.com/linux)) -- founded 1991-08-25, Standing. It became the default computer, then hid inside phones, TVs, cars, and the cloud.
- **LiveJournal** ([/livejournal](https://stillupsince.com/livejournal)) -- founded 1999-04-15, Hollow. A Russian-speaking and fandom diaspora that never fully moved.
- **Mailchimp** ([/mailchimp](https://stillupsince.com/mailchimp)) -- founded 2001-01-01, Wavering. It taught small business what an email campaign was, with a chimp and a free tier.
- **MapQuest** ([/mapquest](https://stillupsince.com/mapquest)) -- founded 1996-01-01, Hollow. The printed directions era. AOL ownership. A brand that still ranks for 'directions' among people who learned the web in 2003.
- **Medium** ([/medium](https://stillupsince.com/medium)) -- founded 2012-08-14, Wavering. The editor and the URL still mean 'a post that looks like a post'.
- **MongoDB** ([/mongodb](https://stillupsince.com/mongodb)) -- founded 2009-02-11, Standing. Document as default was a real relief from ORMs, and Atlas made it a business.
- **Myspace** ([/myspace](https://stillupsince.com/myspace)) -- founded 2003-08-01, Hollow. Musicians and a nostalgia brand. Justin Timberlake's era kept it from a clean funeral.
- **Netflix** ([/netflix](https://stillupsince.com/netflix)) -- founded 1997-08-29, Standing. It ate the video store, then ate cable, then spent like a studio.
- **nginx** ([/nginx](https://stillupsince.com/nginx)) -- founded 2004-10-04, Standing. The config you paste when Apache feels like a museum.
- **Notion** ([/notion](https://stillupsince.com/notion)) -- founded 2016-03-01, Wavering. It is a Lego set: docs, databases, wikis, and a template economy.
- **Obsidian** ([/obsidian](https://stillupsince.com/obsidian)) -- founded 2020-03-30, Standing. Local markdown files. You can leave. Paradoxically that is why people stay.
- **Patreon** ([/patreon](https://stillupsince.com/patreon)) -- founded 2013-05-01, Standing. Monthly membership for creators is a category they named in public.
- **PayPal** ([/paypal](https://stillupsince.com/paypal)) -- founded 1998-12-01, Standing. It is the checkout button for people who do not want to type a card into a stranger's site.
- **Photoshop** ([/photoshop](https://stillupsince.com/photoshop)) -- founded 1990-02-19, Standing. The file format and the verb. 'To photoshop' is the product.
- **PHP** ([/php](https://stillupsince.com/php)) -- founded 1995-06-08, Standing. WordPress, Wikipedia, Facebook's first decade, and a billion shared hosts.
- **Pinboard** ([/pinboard](https://stillupsince.com/pinboard)) -- founded 2008-07-01, Standing. Maciej Ceglowski runs it like a utility: paid, small, sarcastic, still there.
- **Pinterest** ([/pinterest](https://stillupsince.com/pinterest)) -- founded 2010-03-01, Standing. It is a search engine for wanting things, especially for people who do not want Twitter energy.
- **PostgreSQL** ([/postgresql](https://stillupsince.com/postgresql)) -- founded 1996-07-08, Standing. It is the database you graduate to, and then never leave.
- **Python** ([/python](https://stillupsince.com/python)) -- founded 1991-02-20, Standing. It became the second language of every field: science, ops, ML, teaching, glue.
- **Ruby on Rails** ([/rails](https://stillupsince.com/rails)) -- founded 2004-12-13, Standing. It taught a decade of startups that a web app is a folder with opinions.
- **old.reddit** ([/reddit-old](https://stillupsince.com/reddit-old)) -- founded 2005-06-23, Hollow. A URL that pins the 2014 interface. Power users treat it as the actual product.
- **Reddit** ([/reddit](https://stillupsince.com/reddit)) -- founded 2005-06-23, Wavering. It is the comment section of the internet, and Google still sends people there for the human thread.
- **Redis** ([/redis](https://stillupsince.com/redis)) -- founded 2009-04-10, Standing. If you need a cache, a queue, or a counter, you reach for it without a meeting.
- **RSS** ([/rss](https://stillupsince.com/rss)) -- founded 1999-03-15, Standing. Podcasts are RSS with a file attached. That industry alone would keep the spec alive.
- **Salesforce** ([/salesforce](https://stillupsince.com/salesforce)) -- founded 1999-03-08, Standing. CRM is where the money numbers live. Replacing it is a two-year program, not a weekend.
- **Shopify** ([/shopify](https://stillupsince.com/shopify)) -- founded 2006-06-01, Standing. It is the default way a merchant gets a store without becoming a developer.
- **Signal** ([/signal](https://stillupsince.com/signal)) -- founded 2014-07-29, Standing. The protocol is the gold standard. WhatsApp and others borrowed it. That is a weird kind of win.
- **Skype** ([/skype](https://stillupsince.com/skype)) -- founded 2003-08-01, Hollow. The username graph of the 2000s still has grandparents on it.
- **Slack** ([/slack](https://stillupsince.com/slack)) -- founded 2013-08-14, Standing. It turned IRC-for-work into a company default and made search across chat a reason to stay.
- **Spotify** ([/spotify](https://stillupsince.com/spotify)) -- founded 2006-04-23, Standing. It won the 'all the music in a rectangle' war against piracy and then against the stores.
- **SQLite** ([/sqlite](https://stillupsince.com/sqlite)) -- founded 2000-08-17, Standing. It is in every phone, every browser, every airplane, and most 'we don't need a database' apps.
- **Stack Overflow** ([/stackoverflow](https://stillupsince.com/stackoverflow)) -- founded 2008-09-15, Wavering. A decade of ranked answers is still the corpus every model trains on and every search result cites.
- **Stripe** ([/stripe](https://stillupsince.com/stripe)) -- founded 2010-09-29, Standing. Seven lines of code was not a slogan. It was a distribution strategy.
- **Sublime Text** ([/sublime-text](https://stillupsince.com/sublime-text)) -- founded 2008-01-18, Standing. Speed and multiple cursors. It taught VS Code what to steal.
- **Substack** ([/substack](https://stillupsince.com/substack)) -- founded 2017-07-01, Standing. It made 'email plus a paywall plus a profile' a one-click job.
- **Telegram** ([/telegram](https://stillupsince.com/telegram)) -- founded 2013-08-14, Standing. Channels, bots, and huge groups made it infrastructure for places WhatsApp is a family chat.
- **TextMate** ([/textmate](https://stillupsince.com/textmate)) -- founded 2004-10-01, Hollow. Bundles and the 'editor for Mac OS X' myth. Sublime and VS Code are the children.
- **Things** ([/things](https://stillupsince.com/things)) -- founded 2008-01-01, Standing. Cultured Code ships slowly and the app looks like it. That is a feature.
- **tmux** ([/tmux](https://stillupsince.com/tmux)) -- founded 2007-11-20, Standing. Terminal multiplexers are infrastructure for people who live on SSH.
- **Transmit** ([/transmit](https://stillupsince.com/transmit)) -- founded 1998-01-01, Standing. Panic makes Mac software like objects. Transmit is the FTP client as a piece of furniture.
- **Trello** ([/trello](https://stillupsince.com/trello)) -- founded 2011-09-13, Wavering. A board you can see across the room. The metaphor is the product.
- **Tumblr** ([/tumblr](https://stillupsince.com/tumblr)) -- founded 2007-02-01, Wavering. Fandom, collage, and a posting style that did not survive other feeds intact.
- **Twitter / X** ([/twitter](https://stillupsince.com/twitter)) -- founded 2006-03-21, Wavering. It is still where news breaks and where a class of people performs being informed.
- **Vercel** ([/vercel](https://stillupsince.com/vercel)) -- founded 2015-11-16, Standing. Next.js plus git push is a default for a generation of front-end apps.
- **Vim** ([/vim](https://stillupsince.com/vim)) -- founded 1991-11-02, Standing. Muscle memory is a moat. hjkl is a tattoo.
- **VLC** ([/vlc](https://stillupsince.com/vlc)) -- founded 2001-02-01, Standing. It plays the file. The cone is the brand. No account, no store, no lecture.
- **Visual Studio Code** ([/vscode](https://stillupsince.com/vscode)) -- founded 2015-04-29, Standing. Free, good enough, and the extension marketplace is a gravity well.
- **WhatsApp** ([/whatsapp](https://stillupsince.com/whatsapp)) -- founded 2009-02-24, Standing. It is the SMS of half the planet. Network effects at that scale do not care about your new app.
- **Wikipedia** ([/wikipedia](https://stillupsince.com/wikipedia)) -- founded 2001-01-15, Standing. It is the default answer, and search engines need that default more than Wikipedia needs them.
- **Winamp** ([/winamp](https://stillupsince.com/winamp)) -- founded 1997-04-21, Hollow. It really does whip the llama's ass, as a memory. Revivals keep trying to monetize the memory.
- **WordPress** ([/wordpress](https://stillupsince.com/wordpress)) -- founded 2003-05-27, Standing. It still runs a huge fraction of the public web, including the sites of people who mock it.
- **Yahoo** ([/yahoo](https://stillupsince.com/yahoo)) -- founded 1994-03-02, Hollow. A media and mail brand that still has logins from the 90s.
- **YouTube** ([/youtube](https://stillupsince.com/youtube)) -- founded 2005-02-14, Standing. It is cable for the internet, plus the search box for 'how do I'.
- **Zoom** ([/zoom](https://stillupsince.com/zoom)) -- founded 2011-04-21, Standing. It just worked when the others did not. 2020 turned that into a verb.

## Closed (20)

- **AOL Instant Messenger** ([/aim](https://stillupsince.com/aim)) -- founded 1997-05-01, Closed. The buddy list, the away message, the profile HTML. American adolescence as a protocol.
- **AltaVista** ([/altavista](https://stillupsince.com/altavista)) -- founded 1995-12-15, Closed. The search engine that felt like magic in 1996. Faster and bigger than the directory.
- **Delicious** ([/delicious](https://stillupsince.com/delicious)) -- founded 2003-09-01, Closed. Social bookmarks. Tags. The first time a lot of the web learned folksonomy.
- **Adobe Flash** ([/flash](https://stillupsince.com/flash)) -- founded 1996-01-01, Closed. The web's animation, games, and video layer for a decade. Newgrounds and YouTube's first player.
- **Friendster** ([/friendster](https://stillupsince.com/friendster)) -- founded 2002-03-01, Closed. The first social graph a lot of people joined. Slow pages. Myspace was faster. Facebook was cleaner.
- **GeoCities** ([/geocities](https://stillupsince.com/geocities)) -- founded 1994-11-01, Closed. Neighborhoods of amateur HTML. The first time a lot of people had a URL.
- **Google Hangouts** ([/google-hangouts](https://stillupsince.com/google-hangouts)) -- founded 2013-05-15, Closed. The one Google chat that people actually liked, briefly, between Talk and Meet/Chat.
- **Inbox by Gmail** ([/google-inbox](https://stillupsince.com/google-inbox)) -- founded 2014-10-22, Closed. Bundles, snooze, and a calm inbox. It was Gmail with taste.
- **Google+** ([/google-plus](https://stillupsince.com/google-plus)) -- founded 2011-06-28, Closed. Circles were a good idea. Forcing every Google product to grow a Plus button was not.
- **Google Reader** ([/google-reader](https://stillupsince.com/google-reader)) -- founded 2005-10-07, Closed. It was the best RSS reader and the social graph of sharing feeds.
- **Google Stadia** ([/google-stadia](https://stillupsince.com/google-stadia)) -- founded 2019-11-19, Closed. Cloud gaming from Google, with a cute controller, without the games.
- **Google Wave** ([/google-wave](https://stillupsince.com/google-wave)) -- founded 2009-05-27, Closed. A demo that looked like the future of email. Too many cursors. Not enough job-to-be-done.
- **Internet Explorer** ([/internet-explorer](https://stillupsince.com/internet-explorer)) -- founded 1995-08-16, Closed. It won the First Browser War by being the Windows default. That is a long clock.
- **Mint** ([/mint](https://stillupsince.com/mint)) -- founded 2007-09-01, Closed. Free budgeting by selling your attention to banks. It worked until Intuit had Credit Karma.
- **Napster** ([/napster](https://stillupsince.com/napster)) -- founded 1999-06-01, Closed. Peer-to-peer music as a default. It lasted long enough to change the industry and not long enough to become it.
- **Netscape** ([/netscape](https://stillupsince.com/netscape)) -- founded 1994-10-13, Closed. It made the web a consumer product. Mozilla is the ghost that lived.
- **Path** ([/path](https://stillupsince.com/path)) -- founded 2010-11-01, Closed. A beautiful private social network for 50 friends. Taste without a graph.
- **Rdio** ([/rdio](https://stillupsince.com/rdio)) -- founded 2010-08-03, Closed. The best music social network of its moment. Heavy design, heavy taste, light catalog muscle.
- **Vine** ([/vine](https://stillupsince.com/vine)) -- founded 2012-06-01, Closed. Six seconds. A format that minted a generation of comedians.
- **Windows Phone** ([/windows-phone](https://stillupsince.com/windows-phone)) -- founded 2010-10-21, Closed. Live tiles. A design language people still steal. No apps.

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