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Had to remind myself what Vine was again: Vine was an American short-form video hosting service that allowed users to create and share looping video clips up to six seconds long. It was founded in June 2012 by Rus Yusupov, Dom Hofmann, and Colin Kroll, and was acquired by Twitter, Inc. four months later for $30 million. The service launched its iOS app in January 2013, followed by Android and Windows versions. Vine became popular for its creative potential, enabling users to produce content using stop-motion and other innovative techniques. At its peak, it had over 200 million active users by December 2015. The Vine app allowed users to browse videos, view content by theme, and participate in trending videos. Videos could be shared on other platforms like Facebook and Twitter. In October 2016, Twitter announced it would disable uploads to Vine, allowing only viewing and downloading of existing content. The service was officially shut down on January 17, 2017, and the app was no longer available after that. On January 20, 2017, Twitter launched an online archive of all Vine videos, which was later shut down in April 2019.