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 .
Today, if you look closely at an old, archived blog post, you might still see a ghost of those colorful buttons—a reminder of the era when one small sidebar connected the whole world. AddThis
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. On , the time came for the bridges to be dismantled