15 Most Influential Websites

[luck777jojo]

With the web turning 15 years old (I know it’s been around for longer but it’s 15 popular years I’m talking about) The Observer has an article about the 15 most influential websites as they see them.

A lot of known sites such as Amazon.com and eBay are included in the list.

Hard to call this news really fun but and interesting read nevertheless.

Link to Article (http://observer.guardian.co.uk/review/story/0,,1843263,00.html)

[ENiGmA216]

Quite interesting that google is so far down the list... and WHY was myspace put in it i hate that goddamed site and all of its clones :)

[Snoopy]

What is napster.com? Never heard of it.

[Sudden Death]

What is napster.com? Never heard of it.Napster is an online music service which was originally a file sharing service created by Shawn Fanning. Napster was the first widely-used peer-to-peer music sharing service, and it made a major impact on how people, especially college students, used the Internet. Its technology allowed music fans to easily share MP3 format song files with each other, thus leading to the music industry's accusations of massive copyright violations. ...


Interesting article, I didnt know google was only founded in 1998 :x Cant believe that youtube is at number 4 :tired: and myspace at number 8..

[Snoopy]

Napster is an online music service which was originally a file sharing service created by Shawn Fanning. Napster was the first widely-used peer-to-peer music sharing service, and it made a major impact on how people, especially college students, used the Internet. Its technology allowed music fans to easily share MP3 format song files with each other, thus leading to the music industry's accusations of massive copyright violations. ...



Ahh, ok thanks!

[Virtuosofriend]

and google is so low...BTW where the heck is MPC??? We changed cheating world! Shame on the list's author!

[luck777jojo]

Spam Their Inboxes For Not Including Mpc :p

[Dark Hacker]

Google should get 1st easily... It changed the internet for good -.- myspace sux

[the_faith01]

google isnt first?

can someone explain to me how the internet worked b4 search engines.?

[Virtuosofriend]

Spam Their Inboxes For Not Including Mpc :pit actually crossed my mind...muhahahaha

[Elven_Marth]

OMFG, I live in Huntsville, Alabama!

I had no idea that the guy who invented Wikipedia came from MY HOMETOWN YEAAA!!

I looked him up and he graduated from Randolph School, which is the school I go to now rofl.

That's cool, just thought I'd share that.

[brainer120]

i agree with wiki being near the top
man before i knew bout wiki everytime i had to research i had to go to the dam library and use an encyclopedia! (lol i bet u guyz r laughing at me hehe) wiki is huge.

[Virtuosofriend]

can someone explain to me how the internet worked b4 search engines.?there were other search engines...but nothing was any good to google that's why it dominated.

[Dark Blaze]

When the internet very first came out, there was no need for search engines as there were not that many websites out there. First they were closely held so only approved ones existed and then the internet went public and people all over the world with internet access could make a website with the necessary knowledge and so came the need for search engines.

[Yo0Sup]

wow yo that is one very interesting article. But i didnt read it all because i was getting tired reading it lols and again the parts i read was really interesting

[Gn3rKiLL]

google is mostly used for PrOn

[Red-X]

intersting didnt know myspace was created at 2003

[Gn3rKiLL]

wow lots of people at ebay 168 mil

[waveness]

O.o interesting article only skim read it too XD

[BlitzRaider]

Nice article lmao

[saikoukaze]

Coool i think this is very interesting where do find this stuff?

[therandomguy]

"Its name is listed as a verb in the Oxford English Dictionary. It commands the largest internet search engine in the world. It is the fastest-growing company in history and its founders are worth almost $13bn each."

^^google. So how come its so far down the list. My granny knows what google is, now thats saying something

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[cloudabove]

Friendsreunited.com the name explains it all but, will that actually work? Heard tons of complains that it didn't work lol

[m00n_l1ght]

google is spying us and become more powerfull, so one day it will gover the world XD

[9920946]

facebook.com rules my life. does that make the top 15? lol.