Picasa
Born 2002. Died 15 March 2016.
Picasa passed on 15 March 2016, having lived fourteen years as the way to organise photos on a computer. Born in 2002, it offered a folder, a timeline, and the conviction that your pictures ought to live on your disk. At its peak it claimed millions of users. Google acquired it in 2004. Google Photos arrived in 2015. In February 2016 the shutdown was announced. Picasa would close. Users would migrate to Google Photos. The desktop app would no longer be available for download. On 15 March support ended. He is survived by Google Photos, which lives in the cloud, and by the memory of a time when your pictures lived on your computer.
We are shifting our focus entirely to Google Photos.
Replaced by inferior successor
Mourned by Those who organised photos before the cloud, users who liked a desktop app, and anyone who remembers when editing meant opening a program.
Google Photos, which absorbed its albums; the cloud, which replaced the folder; and the memory of a time when your pictures lived on your computer.