Addthis [UPDATED]

On , the time came for the bridges to be dismantled. Oracle, the Great Guardian that had acquired AddThis years prior, announced it was time for the service to terminate .

For nearly twenty years, AddThis stood at the corner of every blog post and news article. Whenever a traveler found a piece of wisdom or a funny cat video they wanted to share, they didn't have to carry it across the city themselves. They simply looked for the colorful sidebar—a familiar stack of squares representing Facebook, Twitter, and Email—and AddThis would whisk the message away to its destination. AddThis

But as the digital city grew, the landscape began to change. Browsers became more private, and social plazas built their own high walls, making it harder for independent bridges to operate. The travelers started carrying their own sharing tools right in their pockets—integrated directly into their phones. On , the time came for the bridges to be dismantled