What died in 2018

7 endings on file for 2018. Longest run first. Dates coarser than a day are shown at the precision the sources support.

  1. Necco Wafers1847 → July 2018 · Food & Drink · Killed by merger · Revivedabout 171 years
  2. Ricicles1955 → January 2018 · Food & Drink · Killed by regulationabout 63 years
  3. Toys "R" Us (US stores)1957 → 29 June 2018 · Places & Institutions · Killed by cost · Revivedabout 61 years
  4. Swaziland1968 → 19 April 2018 · Names & Designations · Killed by one executiveabout 50 years
  5. Apple AirPortJuly 1999 → 26 April 2018 · Consumer Hardware · Killed by a successorabout 18 years
  6. StumbleUpon2002 → 30 June 2018 · Software & Services · Killed by a successorabout 16 years
  7. Virgin America8 August 2007 → 24 April 2018 · Places & Institutions · Killed by merger10y 8m

Launched in 2018

Things born this year that are now in the archive.

The whole ledger, year by year, is on the timeline.