We Built a Graveyard for Dead Technology. Here's Who's Buried There.

Every technology has a shelf life. Some burn bright and fade fast. Some linger long past their welcome. Some are killed by a single blog post from a man in a black turtleneck.

We've built an interactive graveyard on our website where you can visit the headstones of the technologies that shaped the internet and then, one by one, left it. Each grave has an epitaph, a cause of death, and a one-liner from Alfred, our robot mascot who has attended far too many of these funerals.

Here are some of the residents.

Adobe Flash (1996-2020)

It gave us animations, browser crashes, and an entire generation of security vulnerabilities. Flash was the backbone of interactive web content for over a decade. Games, videos, entire websites were built on it. Then Steve Jobs wrote an open letter in 2010 explaining why the iPhone would never support Flash, and that was the beginning of the end. HTML5 finished the job. Flash was officially discontinued in December 2020.

Cause of death: Killed by Steve Jobs with a single blog post. HTML5 finished the job.

Internet Explorer 6 (2001-2014)

Nothing worked properly in it. Everything had to be built for it anyway. IE6 was the browser that web developers loved to hate. It interpreted CSS differently from every other browser, it had security holes you could drive a bus through, and Microsoft's market dominance meant that businesses kept using it long after better alternatives existed. IE6 compatibility testing was a full-time job. Nobody misses that job.

Cause of death: Died of stubbornness. Took web developers' mental health with it.

jQuery (2006-ish)

jQuery made JavaScript bearable when JavaScript was unbearable. Before jQuery, writing cross-browser JavaScript was genuinely painful. jQuery smoothed over the inconsistencies and gave developers a clean, simple way to manipulate web pages. Then JavaScript itself got better. Modern browsers became consistent. Native JavaScript caught up and surpassed what jQuery offered. But jQuery didn't notice it had been replaced. It's still loaded on millions of websites that no longer need it.

Cause of death: Outlived its purpose. Still haunting millions of websites that don't know it's gone.

FTP Deployment (1990s-2010s)

Drag. Drop. Pray. FTP deployment was how an entire generation of developers put websites live. You'd open an FTP client, connect to the server, drag your files across, and hope nothing went wrong. There was no version control. No rollback. No testing pipeline. Just raw file transfer and optimism. Modern CI/CD pipelines, Git, and deployment automation have made FTP look like brain surgery with a butter knife.

Cause of death: Replaced by CI/CD pipelines, Git, and the basic concept of not gambling with production servers.

Google+ (2011-2019)

Google tried to make us use it. We tried to want to. Neither worked. Google+ had every advantage. The backing of the world's biggest tech company, integration with Gmail, and a clean interface. What it lacked was a reason to exist. Nobody needed another social network. Google forced it into search results, required it for YouTube comments, and basically held the internet hostage to boost adoption. It still failed. Some things just aren't meant to be.

Cause of death: Died of forced adoption. Nobody mourned.

MySpace (2003-2011)

It taught an entire generation HTML through the medium of glittery profile pages and autoplay music. Before Facebook, before Instagram, before TikTok, there was MySpace. And it was chaos. Custom backgrounds, embedded music players, top 8 friend lists that caused real-world arguments. It was messy, tacky, and wonderful. Facebook killed it by being cleaner, simpler, and slightly less likely to crash your browser.

Cause of death: Killed by Facebook. Then killed again by everyone pretending they were never on it.

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ColdFusion, Windows Phone, Dreamweaver, Silverlight, Google Reader, table-based layouts, Marquee tags, Comic Sans on business websites, and PHP 4 are all buried there too. Each with their own epitaph, cause of death, and a small button to leave flowers if you're feeling sentimental.

Visit the Graveyard

The full interactive experience is on our website. Click on any headstone to read the full epitaph. Leave flowers. Search for a technology to see if it's buried there. And if it's not, well, that means it's still alive. For now.

There's also a hidden grave. We won't tell you what it says, but if your own tech stack came to mind while reading this, you might want to find it.

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