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And what does the job now.
blummy.com
Packed a grid of web-service shortcuts into a single bookmarklet · Web, Domain & Network
delicious.com
The original social bookmarking service and the tag as we know it · Reading & Research
editgrid.com
A collaborative spreadsheet with live remote data, before Google Sheets · Data, Tables & Charts
eventful.com
Found local gigs and let audiences petition artists to play their city · Film, TV & Media Discovery
gliffy.com
Browser diagramming that worked properly, until Flash stopped existing · Diagrams & Whiteboards
google.com
Clipped text from any page into a notebook without leaving the tab · Notes, Tasks & Focus
google.com
The RSS reader that most of the web's early sharing culture ran on · Reading & Research
ilike.com
Music discovery built on what your friends were actually playing · Music, Radio & Sound
imeem.com
Streamed music, video and photos around a social profile before that was normal · Music, Radio & Sound
jajah.com
Called any phone from a web page, with no software and no headset · Email & Communication
jumpcut.com
Edited video in a browser years before that was technically reasonable · Video & Audio
ma.gnolia.com
Saved and tagged bookmarks you could search alongside other people's · Reading & Research
metacafe.com
Short-video hosting that ranked clips by audience rating rather than recency · Video & Audio
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Internet Archive Moving Images
Public-domain features, newsreels, adverts and ephemeral film, free to stream
multiply.com
Kept photos, video and blog posts in one place with real per-group privacy · Collaboration & Meetings
musicovery.com
Picked music by plotting mood on a calm-to-energetic, dark-to-positive grid · Music, Radio & Sound
mybloop.com
Offered unlimited free file storage, which went about as well as expected · File Sharing & Transfer
odeo.com
A podcast directory and recorder, back when podcasts needed a directory · Music, Radio & Sound
picnik.com
In-browser photo editing that was genuinely good, wired straight into Flickr · Images & Photo Editing
rawsugar.com
Search results filtered through human tags instead of link counting · Web, Domain & Network
tagzania.com
Tagged your own places on a shared map and published them as a collection · Maps & Travel
trailfire.com
Strung pages into a guided trail with a note on each stop · Reading & Research
wetpaint.com
Let a group build a wiki without any of them learning wiki syntax · Collaboration & Meetings
wink.com
Searched hundreds of millions of public profiles from one box · Privacy & Security
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A directory of the direct links for deleting your account on hundreds of sites
xpenser.com
Logged an expense by texting, emailing or even phoning it in · Money, Invoices & Business
yahoo.com
Wired feeds and APIs together on a visual canvas, with no code · Developer & Code
zoto.com
Photo storage that behaved like a desktop application in the browser · Images & Photo Editing
Questions
Because people still search for them. Someone who bookmarked a tool in 2011 and comes back to a parked domain has a real question — what does this now? — and deleting the entry deletes the answer. Keeping the record with a named successor turns a dead end into a redirect.
Roughly half. The viral lists of the late 2000s and early 2010s recommended a few hundred sites; social bookmarking, Flash-era media hosts and standalone video communities were hit hardest, while single-purpose utilities and reference archives survived best. That pattern is why the Atlas records status as data rather than assuming a link works forever.
By the job, not the branding. The successor is whatever currently does the thing the retired site was listed for, even when it looks nothing like the original — a social bookmarking service is usually replaced by a read-later queue rather than by another social bookmarking service, because that is where the behaviour went.
Still standing
The other half of the story — entries from the original lists that are still live, still free, and still the best answer.