A Look At Google's Graveyard

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Say what you will about Google+, but it was way ahead of the curve when it came to naming conventions. They paved the way for Disney+, Discovery+, Paramount+, Apple TV+, ESPN+, BET+, AMC+ and surely more in the future. To think we ever lived in a time when a service ever just had a name without indicating that it provided more than just what the name implied. Thanks, Google.

Stadia was so poorly marketed that almost all of my friends and I thought it was a cloud gaming CONSOLE not a subscription service. Truly a lesson in poor marketing and how it can easily kill a good idea.

Outlook really has a niche with organizations, universities, and workplace use.

In 2012 or so one of my friends dads got into the beta for google glass. It was pretty cool at the time for us 12-13 year olds, but very quickly we figured out that the voice recognition wasn't advanced enough to tell the person wearing the headset apart from someone who was standing next to them. So whenever one of my friends was wearing it any one of us could shout "OK GLASS LOOK UP NAKED MARIO!" and it would just display what google images found for naked Mario. I had a lot of fun memories with it but it was definitely a little too big of an idea for the time.

I'll never forgive Google for giving up on Google Glass. I still dream of the day that I'll be able to scroll through sick memes while pretending to have meaningful conversations with my stupid idiot friends and loved ones.

A couple years ago, I bought a Stadia controller and Chromecast ultra for 5 dollars from a Google store promotion. I played with it for about a month, and forgot about it because my apartment's wifi was trash Years later I realize that I never cancelled my subscription and had been paying Google for like 3 years for stadia despite not playing it. I'm pretty sure I was the core audience at that point

Damn, I miss when Google's experiments were ill-fated MMOs and not terrifying AI models that the creators left in fear of their potential power...

"If Runscape and Maple Story could do this 20 years ago, i think they can figure it out." PREACH GIRL!!!

I used to have Google plus on my laptop and it was so bad but I miss all of it. the creepy dms, the minion memes, the fake science pages. everything

Dude it is so vindicating seeing someone in their 20s ranting about the current state of online gaming and the push to make physical copies obsolete. It's all unnecessary bullshit stemming entirely from corporate greed. Someone needs to do a video on the 2008 EA SecuRom scandal. I was pissed as it was happening and I predicted where things were headed right there.

I had a friend who, upon graduating high school in 2010, worked as an early developer for Google Glass. His project was so cool. He described it as an aid for people with hearing disability that would detect loud noises (fire alarms, glass breaking, dog barking, etc) and send a notification to the glasses. They also worked on a live transcription feature so that a person with a hearing disability could see what someone was saying more clearly and easily.

The concept of Google answers is insane. At that time, doing online payments was a massive undertaking. I remember ordering things online and then adding the order the number to the description on the bank transfer to be able to pay for the item, and then it took 2 days for the payment to be processed.

Google+ was my home when I was a lonely kid growing up with no friends, since I was able to find people who had my same interests and have an escape from my shitty homelife. (Of course I used it to role play warrior cats as a 4th grader, but it was the best time of my life). I would sell my soul to have Google+ back

My friend and I used to have a back and forth while playing games where one of us would get upset and exclaime "This game is google plus!" To which it was customary to reply in deadpan "Your mom is google plus." This tradition literally outlived the platform.

I worked at the Apple Store when Google Glasses came out and I remember a guy who bought them literally came into the store to hang out and stood around waiting for people to ask him about them.

The little cartoon Gabi was adorable I hope we see more of her

eddy, ted, gunnar, andy, AND gabi uploading all on the same day??? we are so lucky.

I really liked Google Wave when it first came out. It essentially helped develop the tech that is now Google Docs where multiple people could edit a doc at the same time.

Circles were basically just a way to sort your connections and filter who can see what. At the time, other social medias like facebook all friends would see the same stuff, so they wanted to capitalize on making categories within friends. but then everyone did that and it didn't matter.