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Windows Vista
2007 – 2009
OS
"Six years of development. One year of market share. The rest is memes."
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Windows ME
2000 – 2001
OS
"The Millennium Edition crashed so reliably it felt like a feature."
🏔️
Windows XP
2001 – 2014
OS
"Officially dead since 2014. Still running your bank's ATM."
🍎
"IBM's answer to Windows. Nobody asked the question."
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HD DVD
2006 – 2008
Hardware
"Lost a format war. Also lost to streaming. Two losses for the price of one."
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Sega Dreamcast
1998 – 2001
Hardware
"Great console. Announced PS2 specs. Sega packed it in."
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Google Glass
2013 – 2015
Hardware
"$1,500 to look like you're filming everyone in the bathroom."
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Amazon Fire Phone
2014 – 2015
Hardware
"Amazon made a phone. Then Amazon made it go away. Quietly."
🎸
MySpace
2003 – 2011
Social
"Tom was always there for you. News Corp was not."
📎
Google+
2011 – 2019
Social
"100 million forced signups do not a social network make."
📹
"Twitter bought it, ignored it, then killed it. Classic."
📟
BlackBerry
2000 – 2016
Mobile
"Invented mobile email. Missed mobile everything else."
📱
Windows Phone
2010 – 2017
Mobile
"Beautiful design. Zero apps. Microsoft wrote 'developer developer developer developer' on its tombstone."
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MiniDisc
1992 – 2013
Storage
"Japan loved it. No one else got the memo."
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Zip Drive
1994 – 2003
Storage
"100MB seemed enormous until it didn't. Also: the click of death."
🌐
Internet Explorer
1995 – 2022
Browser
"Used primarily to download Firefox."
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Netscape Navigator
1994 – 2008
Browser
"Invented the web browser. Didn't survive the browser war."