// about
About Sunset
Sunset is a catalog of web apps, software, and online services that were switched off — Google Reader, Flash, GeoCities, AIM, and the rest — products retired, deprecated, or shut down. Each case is traced from launch to the dated end, and to the users left to migrate.
What you'll find here
- The product, what it was, the year it launched, and the year it died — stated up front, never buried
- How long it lived and how big it got, in a four-cell stat bar
- A documented timeline, a three-act account, and exactly five contributing factors
- Why it was killed and the exact fate — shut down, discontinued, merged, open-sourced, sold off, or revived
- Transferable lessons, and real references from official shutdown posts and named tech journalism
Sunset is part of End of Life — a reference network on dead software, platforms, services, and gadgets: the things that launched, ran, and were switched off, each resolved by the documented shutdown date.