All good things come to an end. This year, we watched as some of our favorite gadgets found a new home in a casket filled with the technology of yesteryear. Fill up a glass and get ready to pour one out for the tech casualties of 2017.

AIM

On December 15, AOL Instant Messenger posted its final away message. Its days of being the hip way to stay in touch with all your school friends are long gone, but AIM is where an entire generation forged their online identities. Now, all those embarrassing screen names are six feet under along with the rest of the old web.

iPod Nano and Shuffle

Apple finally gave its flagship music player the boot this year by killing off the iPods Nano and Shuffle. Sure, you’ve streaming all your tunes with Spotify or Apple Music by now, but that doesn’t mean we won’t miss the iPod. It sparked the modern landscape for music, and it’s where many of us build the playlists that defined our youth.

Vine

Before the lauded Pivot to Video, there was Vine. It had dogs jammin’ out on the cowbell, raps about Liam Neeson, siblings ruining vape tricks, and mystifying tricks of trash cans turning into whiteboard drawings. Twitter gave it the axe late last year, but kept it on life support until January. With its departure goes another experimental platform where people could be just a little weirder with their creations. Damn, Daniel.

Microsoft

MS Paint

It probably didn’t come as a shock when Microsoft dropped Paint from its list of supported features, but it’ll be missed. Paint was the birthplace of poorly drawn memes, and even if its tools weren’t the most robust, or even that good, it made for some great laughs.

The 140 Character Limit

As if tweets weren’t already bad enough, this year Twitter decided one of the network’s biggest issues wasn’t harassment or rogue employees, it was that tweets simply weren’t long enough. So, while threats of nuclear war and hate speech ran rampant, Twitter’s Big Improvement to the platform this year was doubling its character limit to 280. At least now we can post more Smash Mouth lyrics, right?

App.net

While Twitter futzed around with its algorithms and gave us longer tweets, its distant open source cousin, App.net, closed its doors. It promised to be an ad-free microblogging platform, a model that proved unsuccessful in the long run. While it never hit the mainstream, it’s another reminder that it isn’t altruism, but a constantly changing set of unsolicited features features that wins in the social game.

Twitter Egg

The internet hate mob got a little less ludicrous this year when Twitter axed the notorious Profile Egg for accounts that never uploaded a profile picture. In its wake hatched a new mask of anonymity: a plain ol’ profile of an ambiguous human body. It didn’t cut back on harassment, but it’s easier to be mad at a human than it is an egg.

GChat

It’s hard to keep up with all of Google’s messaging apps: Allo, Google+, Hangouts, Duo. (Does anyone use this stuff?) Chat was one of the originals. Now, it’s been replaced by Hangouts, which will eventually be replaced by the next bonkers messaging app Google dishes out.

The MP3

The mp3 sparked a change in the way we listened to music. It let us toss our favorite songs onto iPods and its knockoffs, but most of us probably snagged our tunes from Limewire. If you were lucky, you might have even been bamboozled into downloading a spoof of Bill Clinton telling you to hit up a sketchy website. The mp3’s license ran out this year, and its creators are pushing the AAC format to take its place — but AAC player just doesn’t have the same ring to it, huh?