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From Orkut to Vine: The Rise and Fall of Internet's Once-Dominant Apps

You used them. You loved them. You forgot them.

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Storyboard•18-03-2026, 15:56

From Orkut to Vine: The Rise and Fall of Internet's Once-Dominant Apps

•Orkut: Google's early social network, popular in India and Brazil, shut down in 2014.
•Vine: The six-second video app that influenced internet humor, discontinued by Twitter in 2017.
•Myspace: Once the largest social platform, known for custom profiles, lost out to Facebook.
•Yahoo Messenger: A pioneer in online chatting, faded with the rise of mobile messaging apps.
•Clubhouse: The invite-only audio app experienced a pandemic surge but quickly lost users.
•Tumblr: A hub for fandoms, declined in popularity after policy changes and platform shifts.
•Hike: An Indian messaging app, struggled against WhatsApp's scale despite unique features.

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