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Flappy Bird
Just a few short months ago, everyone was talking about the ridiculously simple (yet fairly difficult) game that involved flying a bird between pipes. Now it's one more ephemeral cultural artefact from the 10 seconds the internet got obsessed with it.
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Hipstamatic
It's a cool idea– fight the urge for instant gratification with a camera app that acts like a real old school camera. But in the war between photo filter apps, Instagram has claimed victory.
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Draw Something
In the way that Words with Friends transferred Scrabble to mobile phones, Draw Something did something similar with Pictionary.
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Clear
This simple to-do list app was all the rage among productivity-aholics when it launched. It made tech news earlier in the year for going on the app store for free for a few days, but also causing some confusion when the paid app was briefly still available.
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Color
After raising $41 million in funding, the video sharing app shut down in 2012.
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GroupMe
This group messaging app experienced a spike in popularity that's since subsided – unless you're the only one of your friends without an iPhone.
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iTether
The app caused a bit of a stir when it was originally pulled from the app store, and then later relaunched for a fee of $30 a year.
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Highlight
People couldn't decide if this app, which showed users info about people around them, like their picture and certain bio details, was cool or creepy.
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SpringPad
While this note taking app had more than 5 million users, it just shuttered on June 25, 2014.
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Words with Friends
Maybe you still play with that aunt to only talk to occasionally, but the days of juggling double digital games faded before Alec Baldwin got busted for refusing to stop playing it on an airplane.
Flappy Bird
Just a few short months ago, everyone was talking about the ridiculously simple (yet fairly difficult) game that involved flying a bird between pipes. Now it's one more ephemeral cultural artefact from the 10 seconds the internet got obsessed with it.
By Erin Carson
Erin Carson is a Staff Reporter for CNET and a former Multimedia Editor for TechRepublic.