Timeline

Delivered snacks in 15 minutes. Burned through cash even faster.

Redefined calling. Microsoft redefined it out of existence.

Cleaner rides. Messier books.

Spotify existed. That was the problem.

It was India's Twitter. Until India decided it was fine with the real Twitter.

Delivered everything. Except profits.

Talk to strangers, they said. What could go wrong, they said. Everything. Everything went wrong.

Every developer's first deploy. Salesforce killed the magic.

1,000 songs in your pocket. Then your phone had 10,000,000.

The CEO phone, until the CEOs got iPhones.

The browser you used to download other browsers.

India's WhatsApp killer. WhatsApp killed it instead.

Uploaded your music to the cloud. Google deleted the cloud.

It made 80 million people care about virtual tomatoes. Then Flash died and took the farm with it.

Third place in a two-horse race.

90% of sessions lasted less than 5 seconds.

It taught a generation how to say 'a/s/l?' and then watched them all leave for WhatsApp.

Six seconds was all it needed to change the internet. Zero seconds is what Twitter gave it to survive.

The social network that said no to Google.

It ruled Brazil. Then Facebook showed up with better everything.

Tap. Die. Rage. Repeat. Then the creator rage-quit too.

A Top 8 that turned into nobody.

The best product Google ever killed.

Started the browser war. Lost it to a free one.

Changed music forever. Got sued into oblivion.