Friends Reunited has closed down after 15 years of helping old friends stay in touch over the Internet. Subscribers were told about the closure today in an email from the original founder, who also penned a long and heartfelt essay about his creation. The Web site was considered to be one of the first social networks on the Web, but simply couldn't compete with modern rivals. In a Medium post, founder Steve Pankhurst said the business "started to decline with the likes of Facebook taking over social networking."
Hard to believe classmates.com is still alive.