# Closed 20 names whose clocks stopped. - [AOL Instant Messenger](https://stillupsince.com/aim): founded 1997-05-01, Closed. The buddy list, the away message, the profile HTML. American adolescence as a protocol. [aim.com](https://aim.com) - [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. [altavista.com](https://altavista.com) - [Delicious](https://stillupsince.com/delicious): founded 2003-09-01, Closed. Social bookmarks. Tags. The first time a lot of the web learned folksonomy. [del.icio.us](https://del.icio.us) - [Adobe 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. [adobe.com/products/flashplayer](https://adobe.com/products/flashplayer) - [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. [friendster.com](https://friendster.com) - [GeoCities](https://stillupsince.com/geocities): founded 1994-11-01, Closed. Neighborhoods of amateur HTML. The first time a lot of people had a URL. [geocities.com](https://geocities.com) - [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. [hangouts.google.com](https://hangouts.google.com) - [Inbox by Gmail](https://stillupsince.com/google-inbox): founded 2014-10-22, Closed. Bundles, snooze, and a calm inbox. It was Gmail with taste. [inbox.google.com](https://inbox.google.com) - [Google+](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. [plus.google.com](https://plus.google.com) - [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.com/reader](https://google.com/reader) - [Google Stadia](https://stillupsince.com/google-stadia): founded 2019-11-19, Closed. Cloud gaming from Google, with a cute controller, without the games. [stadia.google.com](https://stadia.google.com) - [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. [wave.google.com](https://wave.google.com) - [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. [microsoft.com](https://microsoft.com) - [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. [mint.intuit.com](https://mint.intuit.com) - [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. [napster.com](https://napster.com) - [Netscape](https://stillupsince.com/netscape): founded 1994-10-13, Closed. It made the web a consumer product. Mozilla is the ghost that lived. [netscape.com](https://netscape.com) - [Path](https://stillupsince.com/path): founded 2010-11-01, Closed. A beautiful private social network for 50 friends. Taste without a graph. [path.com](https://path.com) - [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. [rdio.com](https://rdio.com) - [Vine](https://stillupsince.com/vine): founded 2012-06-01, Closed. Six seconds. A format that minted a generation of comedians. [vine.co](https://vine.co) - [Windows Phone](https://stillupsince.com/windows-phone): founded 2010-10-21, Closed. Live tiles. A design language people still steal. No apps. [microsoft.com](https://microsoft.com)