Internet Explorer, iPod, Google Stadia and more: technologies that died in 2022

A year gone, new graves in the digital graveyard. Over time, various products and services are forgotten, either because they are no longer produced or because they no longer have official support. 2022 will stand in the memory for leaving behind nothing less than the iconic Internet Explorerto the iPod touch -and, after all, the iPod- and Google’s Stadia video game streaming project, among others.

Just as 2021 has buried monuments like Blackberry and Yahoo Answers, this time it’s up to a landmark like Internet Explorer, perhaps the most iconic web browsing software in history.

In 1995, Microsoft launched the browser to destroy its competitor, Netscape Navigator, and ushered in the first phase of what became known as the “Browser War,” which lasted until 2001. The version 1.0 of Internet Explorer used a source code of Mosaic and had been developed by a team of just six people.

This year, the company finished completing the rollout of Edge, its successor, which, while it doesn’t have as large a market share as it has Chromehas managed to carve out a place among browsers based on chrome.

But Internet Explorer isn’t the only piece of technology that it has become a part of archeology technology. Here, other products, projects and hardware that will cease to exist.

iPods: 2001-2022

After more than two decades of existence, Apple has stopped producing the iPod Touch, as announced in May of this year.

It is the latest model of the historic music player created by the company that revolutionized online music in 2001 with the first iPod and, above all, the itunes.

The reason, after all, has to do with the fact that the iPhone performs the same functions as the iPod and much more: it no longer makes sense to have an iPod.

The iconic buttoned wheel model, which then gave rise to the classic, was discontinued in 2014. Meanwhile, Shuffle and Nano were phased out three years later. To this day, the iPod Touch’s seventh generation it was still selling, three years after its debut.

Few other iconic objects in the history of technology: with the end of its Touch version, the company will no longer produce iPods.

Goodbye and thanks for so much.

Google Stadia: 2019-2023

Google’s video game streaming service was short-lived: just 3 years.

The idea was very good but, despite this, the players have not finished accepting the idea of ​​playing this way. While the consoles like Nintendo Switch, Xbox and Playstation dominate the market next to the PC, playing a game at the moment it is played generates all kinds of problems, both in the quality and in the game experience (latency).

The project paved the way for a Xbox cloud game which, this year, presented a stable gaming experience (even in Argentina, where the connections are not the fastest in the region).

“While its approach was built on a solid technology foundation, it hasn’t gotten the traction among users we’d hoped for, so we’ve made the difficult decision to begin phasing it out,” said Phil Harrison, vice president and general manager of project. , in January of 2023.

Facebook Game: 2018-2022

Another product related to video games, but this time in streaming. Faced with the unbeatable power of contractionthe Palo Alto giant had to withdraw from the fight and give in to the Amazon-owned company.

With three years to live and a multi-million dollar investment, Meta’s foray into video game streaming lived until October 28 of this year.

BlackBerry OS: 1999-2022

The announcement that BlackBerry would no longer be supported dates back to the end of last year. But the official date of his death was January 4 of this year, from that moment on Operating system of one of the most successful mobile devices in history would no longer be supported.

The end of an era, given how much mobile communication has changed.

Google Hangouts: 2013-2022