Wednesday, August 16, 2006

15 Websites Changed the World

There are 15 websites that changed the world in terms of life styles, shopping, search, etc. in the past 15 years, Guardian writes today. These websites are summarized here:

1. Ebay
Founded by Pierre Omidyar, 1995 US
Auctions & shopping
Users 168M

2. Wikipedia
Founded by Jimmy Wales, 2001 US
Online Encyclopedia
Users 912K / day

3. Napster
Founded by Shawn Fanning, 1999 US
File sharing
Users 500K paying subscribers

4. Youtube
Founded by Chad Hurley, Steve Chen and Jawed Jarim, 2005 US
Video sharing
Users 100M / day

5. Blogger
Founded by Evan Williams, 1999 US
Weblog publishing system
Users 18.5M unique visitors

6. Friendsreunited
Founded by Steve & Julie Pankhurst, 1999 UK
School reunion
Users 15M

7. Drudgereport
Founded by Matt Drudge, 1994 US
News
Users 10M page views / day

8. Myspace
Founded by Tom Anderson and Chris DeWolfe, 2003 US
Social networking
Users 100M

9. Amazon
Founded by Jeff Bezos, 1994 US
Online retailer of books, CDs, and DVDs
Users over 35M

10. Slashdot
Founded by Rob Malda, 1997 US
Technology news
Users 5.5M / month

11. Salon
Founded by David Talbot, 1995 US
Online magazine
Users 3M unique visitors / month

12. Craigslist
Founded by Craig Newmark, 1995 US
Network of online urban communities
Users 4000M page views / month

13. Google
Founded by Larry Page and Sergey Brin, 1998 US
Search engine
Users 1000M search requests / day

14. Yahoo
Founded by David Filo and Jerry Yang, 1994 US
Internet portal
Users 400M

And last, and evidently least, which I don't like, but Guardian has added to have one more UK in the list:

15. Easyjet
Founded by Stelios Haji-Loannou, 1995 UK
Budget airline
Users 30M passengers 2005

1 comment:

  1. Very interesting! And think that I began surfing the net just 5 years ago!!! Look, I was born in 51 - the year when the computers began to be used outside the labs... Where we should be if we were to live without the computers, my friend? Can you imagine our lives without them???

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