Off the Net

By accident today I discovered that SocialURL officially closed the doors on their photo sharing site June 30th. I did not get any type of public notice that this was going to happen. I even did a search on it but found nothing. So I post.

I was lucky enough to be able to access my account and retrieve all my pictures.
I spent the day doing that and finishing up moving my Yahoo360 which closes down officially July 13th.

I sent the SocialURL people/staff a thank you note before deleting my account.

So let's just look at what has left the internet lately.
Here is what I can remember as the list is l-o-n-g. . .

Close Down Timeline (most recent or expected first)

Google Classic Sites - expected to shut down Sept 2021. Download your site or delete it.  The newer version stays.

Yahoo Groups - closed for good Dec 2020
Use.com -- photo site to create mini websites, or templates with codes for Craigslist ads.
About.com became "The Spruce" completely revamped.
Tab Up - social sharing bookmarking site.

thoughts.com - site has been wonky since the change/update, future unknown
tBlog 
Multiply -- December 2012 (inherited MSN folks/groups and Yahoo 360 folks = 11 million users)
Webshots -- December 2012 -- revamped but all old albums gone.
PageFlakes -- January 2012
Eons -- they had troubles that have not been fixed for a very long time.
BlogExplosion -- sometime late 2011
Posterous -- still opened but bought out by Twitter, future squashed.
Slide.com and RockYou (just adding to my list)
Image Cave -- without notice October 2011
Yahoo My Blog Log -- May 2011
Yahoo Buzz -- April 2011
De.Li.cious -- owned by Yahoo then sold to private company Avos April 2011-- still up and running with new developments.
Yahoo Pulse with photo albums -- (replaced 360, did not last a year) July 2011

MSN Live Spaces -- March 2011 (moving to Wordpress)
Blogrolling -- Nov 2010 notification/April 30, 2011
Bloglines -- October 2010 (since re-opened under new owners)
Vox Blogs -- September 2010
ewebcounters -- May 2010
Frappr -- March/April 2010
Free Homepages - June/July 08 (no notice)
AOL Journals - October 08
AOL Photo Albums recently
ThirdAge Homepages - early last year - sniff - that was so cute a place but with an antiquated system.
Selectablog - just shut down instantaneously, no notice, but referred the few users to Thoughts.com
Pickle - photo sharing early last year (just opened up an account and two months later - they were saying good bye)
MSN Groups - February 2009
Flip.com -- Feb 2009 -- scrapblog is similiar
Furl -- April 2009 -- social bookmark network
Yahoo Albums, (use Flickr) and
Yahoo Briefcase (use Google Docs or MSN Live Spaces SkyDrive)
Yahoo 360 (I really liked it there for storage of posts)- July 09
Yahoo GeoCities (free accounts) - October 2009
Google Page Creator (I really liked this! It was replaced with Google Sites (with bugs) and final merging is happening as you read this).
Blog Bar - search engine for your blog in 08.
Blogfaces and BlogMad - blog surfing sites
ZoomClouds - ??? tag words for your blog for a search
Sampa.com - (a combo blog/albums/files/website s) notified 7/18 closing down on 8/17/09
Shoutpost - "sniff" "for serious bloggers" down and out without notice Sept. 09.
Blinkz - cute little personal website - disappeared without notice 12/08

So what is next?

List updated 1.1.21