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Ask HN: Abandoned/dead projects you think died before their time and why?

358 points ofalkaed | 1 comments | 11 Oct 25 22:16 UTC | HN request time: 0.202s | source

Just curious and who knows, maybe someone will adopt it or develop something new based on its ideas.
1. AfterHIA ◴[12 Oct 25 23:58 UTC] No.45563242[source]▶
Ubiquity for Firefox/Chrome.

Hit, "ctrl + spacebar to search for anything with simple typed parameters for search" was a killer product in 2005 and now Microsoft finally got wise to copy it in 2025.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jef_Raskin