Show HN: Rip.so – a graveyard for dead internet things

I'm not sure I the Tamagotchi deserves a place on here.

Did anything really kill it? It was kind of just a fad in the late 90s and its still around, not as popular as its fad stages but still reasonably popular. We just got back from Japan last week, there is a newly opened "Tamagotchi Factory" shop which was packed. The kids each picked up one of the latest versions and have been playing with them every day.

My thought is that this is interesting, but very narrowly scoped. I thought the list would be, um, longer. By a lot. This feels like talking about all of the deaths in pre-Enlightenment Europe and coming up with a list of seven names.

Missing Games for Windows Live, perhaps the worst games platform ever made, you will not be missed.

https://www.shamusyoung.com/twentysidedtale/?p=8059

ICQ and 6 digit numbers? Maybe the first million users, but I had an ICQ number from... what? 1998? which was already 7 digits.

Interesting Tamagoshi story.

I didn't realize how addictive the "keep them alive" narrative was.

No wonder streaks work so well nowadays.

There is a lot to learn from the past.

Awesome site. I wonder how much of this is tied to the pre-mobile, desktop era. I never really thought of it that way, but I guess that’s where a lot of early Web nostalgia comes from.

I love the small web, and this is a nice project. But I won't remember to come back to it. It would be nice to have it pop up in my Mastodon or Lemmy (or Insta, or FB...) for each new addition.

Use the new web to bring people back to the old web :)

(Or a newsletter ? RSS ?)

Thank you for the "dark mode", like the old days. 2 annoyances though :

- the flashing bright yellow banner is painful to the eyes

- and the fonts are very small on a phone screen — although a 300x zoom "fixed" this.

Thanks for reminding me about RealPlayer. I remember playing flash games on it I had on a USB drive. Felt like a hacker when I downloaded them from a website and played them locally instead of having to be connected to the internet to play them :)

That big flashing yellow bar near the top makes the page _literally impossible_ for me to read. Human eyes are built to follow the fastest/flashiest thing around, and that bar takes the provierbial cake in terms of eyeball distraction.

Is the text generated by AI? Are the "eulogies" by real people or AI?

Why are "personal homepages" listed as dead? Sure, they're not as ubiquitous as they used to be, but almost every tech-adjacent person I know has one. Webrings and guestbooks are also very much still a thing. I'd say they are far from dead.

Amazing to read through the list. I had no idea about Orkut. To kill an application with 300m users seems insane.

Anyone here knows why MSN was ever killed? The brand was so strong. I am sure usage was still there. You'd think Microsoft could still bring it back somehow. In a similar vein, it was never clear to me why hotmail was killed to make place for "live" mail.

pebble is listed there, but it's back! https://repebble.com/

MiniDisc "ignored by the world" my ass, ignored by the USA you mean.

I added 5-inch floppies and floppy disks, very very vintage.

I like this project! Would be great if you could add their logos for sentimental value.

Here's another Product Graveyard https://www.saashub.com/product-graveyard.

There should be an AI graveyard, too. There are so many AI projects that are dead within an year.

Skype is missing?