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What tech did we lose in 2022?

Answer: BlackBerry and Internet Explorer, finally.

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At the end of last year, CNET reporter Bridget Carey released her annual roundup of the tech that died throughout the year. This year’s list included a few blasts from the past that most of you probably thought were already dead.

First, the BlackBerry. You know, that full-keyboard phone that was popular for a hot second in the early 2000s before the iPhone subjected it to a slow and painful death. Apparently that death lasted all the way into 2022, when all BlackBerry devices officially stopped working on Jan. 4. Also in the realm of cellphones, the 3G network was officially killed off, with AT&T, T-Mobile and Verizon all shutting theirs down. And 20 years after its launch reshaped the way we access and listen to music, the iPod officially was no more, with Apple discontinuing it in May.

In June, another bit of tech that everyone thought was already dead officially met its end: Internet Explorer. Microsoft officially discontinued the last iteration of the once briefly popular browser, fully retiring Internet Explorer 11 on June 15. Jumping ahead to October, Google killed off its cloud gaming service Stadia, announcing it would refund customers for all hardware and games purchased through the Google and Stadia stores. And Amazon announced the discontinuation of the Amazon Glow, a video chat/video game device that had only been in circulation for about a year.
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