Dead Media Beat: just some of the dead media of 2017

*He calls it "dead tech."

https://slim-weight.info/story/2017-tech-in-memoriam/%3C/p%3E%3Cp class="paywall">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.

(((Including YikYak, the iPod Nano, the Kinect, Vine mini-videos, AOL Instant Messenger, Gchat, and an attempt to kill off the mp3 format because, well, why not kill off megatons of recorded digital music that might otherwise persist indefinitely.)))