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Oct 29, 2019 · In celebration of the milestone, we get a condensed history of websites. These are not the most popular or the longest-lived, nor are they ranked, but a timeline of the websites that changed the way we live, work, and communicate.
- CERN
- Wikipedia
- Yahoo
- EBay
- YouTube
- Napster
- Usenet
CERN is on here for one reason: it was the first website ever. Yes, this little site – you can still see a snapshot of the site– is the OG of websites. It’s nothing much, just a few explanations, a couple of links… and that’s it. But the first is always important, if for nothing else than to show that it can be done. This was the dawn of a whole ne...
Yeah, I know. Twitter has become that annoying know-it-all who never shuts up. But still, you can’t deny its cultural impact. Hashtags are everywhere now – hell, people even use them outside of Twitter, which… uh, that sure is something, I guess – and companies large and small obsess about how best to use Twitter and monetize its millions of users....
Wikipedia is one of those things that doesn’t seem all that important until you think about what we’d all do if it suddenly ceased to exist. That’s because you probably don’t even realize how much you use it. It’s just become a part of the everyday Internet experience. I may be slightly biased here because I use it all the time, but that just highl...
You know that funny story/meme/picture everyone’s been sending around your office today? Yeah, chances are that it originated over on Reddit. Or at least was popularized there. That’s because Reddit has essentially become the central hub of the Internet, the place where everyone gathers to decide just what we’re all going to be talking about for a ...
Yahoo was really the first search engine to blow open the Internet for people. Sure, there were others – AltaVista, Lycos, etc. – but Yahoo is the one that ruled the kingdom. It’s the website that people made their homepages back in the ‘90s and made non-nerds feel comfortable with the whole idea of this newfangled internet. All you had to do was t...
eBay is important for a couple of reasons – it streamlined and legitimized the consumer to consumer trade that the Internet was pretty much born for, and it made the whole thing much more accessible to your everyday moms and dads, aunts and cat ladies. Suddenly, everyone not only could use the Internet easily, with minimal instruction, they now had...
Speaking of old ladies and cats… Look, there were a lot of social networking sites before Facebook, so it’s kind of hard to make an innovation argument here, but to be honest, all other arguments are rendered moot in the face of one unassailable argument: Facebook is massive. Its size and popularity essentially defined the whole idea of social medi...
The Internet world can be broken up into two eras: BY and AY, Before YouTube and After YouTube. I know that sounds ridiculous, not to mention vaguely sacrilegious, but it’s true. YouTube completely changed the game. It not only ushered in the video era of the internet, the impacts of which should be ridiculously obvious if you’ve spent more than fi...
Remember Napster? Well, you should. And I don’t just mean as one of those “Hey, remember when?” sort of jokey nostalgic deals you might see on VH1. Sure, while it probably instantly conjures up an era of baseball cap wearing bros in their dorm-rooms and old school Britney Spears posters from before she became a Greek tragedy of a human being, it al...
Again, not technically a website, but that’s just because it predated websites, and, like Napster, it fits with the spirit of the article. Plus, if you think I’m going to talk about the most important websites/services/etc. in the history of the Internet and not include Usenet, you’re fucking nuts. That’s because, spiritually, Usenet is the Interne...
1. CERN. December 20, 1990 didn’t feel historic at the time, but it was the day a British computer scientist in the Swiss Alps published the first-ever website at the European Organization for...
Oct 23, 2017 · Here’s TIME’s collection of the 15 websites that most influenced the medium, and why. 15. Match.com
Oct 22, 2018 · It’s really difficult to name the best, most important, or most influential news website in history. It’s hard to even determine what the first news website was.
In celebration of the milestone, we get a condensed history of websites. These are not the most popular or the longest-lived, nor are they ranked, but a timeline of the websites that changed the way we live, work, and communicate.
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