So here are some of the most significant tech losses of 2021 to bid a fond farewell.

Yahoo Answers

Perhaps the most nostalgic goodbye we had to say in 2021 was Yahoo Answers.

Yahoo Answers provided an entire generation with a sense of community through shared questions.

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or “How do you make a weeji board?”

However, since it required no expertise to use it, Yahoo Answersoften led to ignorance and misinformation.

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“It just shows how vulnerable that sort of our personal memory is.

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And I think it suggests that these platforms aren’t going to be here forever,” he said.

“Forum posts are awesome because their voices are from everyday people.

LG’s movement away from LG Pay makes sense, too.

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It was America’s only nonprofit, free, local broadcast TV digital translator service.

As of October, the Classic Hangouts vanished and all users were migrated over to Google Chat.

Hangouts first debuted on Google in 2013 and featured instant messaging and video calls.

Apple HomePods

Apple

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