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Top Ten Websites from Jan. 1993 to Jan. 2022

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Animated time-lapse chart illustrating how radically the Internet landscape has changed over the past three decades. The video moves quickly from one month to the next and lasts for approximately two-and-a-half minutes. Fascinating stuff, in my opinion. Cool music too.

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JohnOinger · 41-45, M

@Rutterman Will FlyingJewel become my SW Groupie

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JohnOinger · 41-45, M

@Rutterman Will I have dreams in my Sleep of getting new SW Groupies & Tik Tok Groupies

Rutterman · 46-50, M

@JohnOinger Yes, you will have many such dreams.

JohnOinger · 41-45, M

@Rutterman nice

checkoutanytime · M

I am a dragon slayer! 🤣

[People blamed me for Yahoo Answers' collapse, but it was google that surpressed information, and dominated the 2010's, definitely not me.]

Rutterman · 46-50, M

@checkoutanytime Haha. A dragon-slayer, you say? 😄

Of course, it's wrong to blame you or any one individual for Yahoo Answers' collapse. It allegedly happened because of reduced usage, but I have no idea if that's really why it shut down.

LordShadowfire · 46-50, M

@Rutterman The Answers part of Yahoo shut down from too many trolls, I think. The rest of it lost popularity because the owners didn't know how to run it.

But no, I don't blame any one person, even @checkoutanytime.

Rutterman · 46-50, M

@LordShadowfire You might be right about that. EP also suffered from trolls gone wild and the site was incredibly badly managed.

OnePatheticClown · 51-55, M

This reminded me to check my AOL mail account just now...deactivated? But it's only been 12 years since I last logged in!🤬

Rutterman · 46-50, M

@OnePatheticClown Oy vey. It could well have been deactivated after all this time. 😶

Burnley123 · 41-45, M

Google monopoly. Yahoo wins battle but loses the war. Youtibe is a partner.

Rutterman · 46-50, M

@Burnley123 Yep, Google purchased YouTube in 2006. I'm impressed that Yahoo held the top spot for as long as it did. It's surprising to me that Amazon fell off the list in late 2018 and hadn't returned by Jan. 2022. I was under the impression that most people were upping their use of Amazon once the pandemic hit in March-April 2020. I would have thought it'd be enough to bring the site back into the Top Ten.

Burnley123 · 41-45, M

@Rutterman Me too. However, it's a chart based on number of clicks rather than money made. Amazon is by far the world's biggest online store.

ChampagneOnIce · 51-55, F

Really interesting! Thanks for posting that.

Rutterman · 46-50, M

@ChampagneOnIce You're welcome. Glad you found it interesting. 😎

JaggedLittlePill · 46-50, F

Rutterman · 46-50, M
I wasn't aware of it either. Another surprise to me is that only one adult site made the Top Ten and it didn't happen until late 2018. I'm also surprised it's Xvideos, not Pornhub.

Do you think this is because they were not "known" sites back then? Like porn was seen as horrible terrible evil....those sites were kind of obscure.

Rutterman · 46-50, M

@JaggedLittlePill That's entirely possible, I think. XVideos and Pornhub, the "adult" sites I hear most about, weren't launched until 2007. There was plenty of porn available prior to that, but the sites that hosted it were more obscure, as you suggested, than the two I mentioned. That's how I remember it anyway.

JaggedLittlePill · 46-50, F

It took aol all the way until 2008 to fall off the top 10. Crazy stuff

Rutterman · 46-50, M

@JaggedLittlePill Yes, and AOL held the top spot for over 7 years. I had forgotten how dominant they once were.

LordShadowfire · 46-50, M

Interesting. I never thought about Yahoo as being Google's biggest competition, but it was for the longest time.

Rutterman · 46-50, M

@LordShadowfire I wasn't aware of it either. Another surprise to me is that only one adult site made the Top Ten and it didn't happen until late 2018. I'm also surprised it's Xvideos, not Pornhub.

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