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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...
- Blingee
- Meetup
- RuneScape
- WhoSampled
- The Sartorialist
- The Toast
- Pizzanet
- Stack Overflow
- Somethingawful
- Electronic Frontier Foundation
Blingee is a form of art. Who would we be, if not for the sparkles, shimmering text, and rotating pot leaves it allowed us to barf all over our MySpace profile pictures? It’s not a gif, it’s not a photo: it’s the Harry Potter photograph version of a scrapbook page made by your wine aunt and goth tween cousin. Inexplicably—but thank GOD—people are s...
As far as startups go, MeetUp has to be at the top of the list of a good idea that turned out pretty lame. The concept of getting people with common interests offline and together in real life was a solid one, but it came at a time when people were getting far more comfortable with saying “fuck real life.” These days, it holds some niche interest f...
One of the best games to play in the early 2000s if your parents refused to pay for video games or an expensive computer, the once browser-based MMORPG’s blocky, low-powered graphics and grinding gameplay gave it an endearing charm that distinguished it from the big boys on the block. Though better-looking versions, unshackled from the browser, hav...
WhoSampled’s mission couldn’t be simpler: identifying when and from where musicians sampled the work of others. When researching a single song or musical phrase, it’s a boon. Dive into the endless network of samples, remixes, and other connections that follow, and you’ll find yourself in the kind of internet k-hole that can only be escaped from by ...
This trail-blazing fashion blog was among the first to use the internet to charge past the gate-keeping glossies. The Sartoralist showcased the street style of (mostly) non-models and pioneered the notion that regular, non-famous folks with great fashion sense were just as inspirational as polished celebrities on the red carpet. For better or for w...
This gem of a feminist satire site only lived for three years, but it launched careers, garnered an obsessively devoted fanbase, and saved a life (for real, someone matched with a live kidney donor in the comments section of The Toast). Founders Nicole Cliffe and Daniel Mallory Ortberg created a space that took the female experience seriously enoug...
In 1994, Pizza Hut’s PizzaNet became what is widely credited as the very first place a consumer could purchase a physical product over the World Wide Web. Though that’s not exactlytrue, it was the first major push for an online market place and it foreshadowed the era of Seamless. Millions of drunk people looking at their bank statements the next m...
The website where you can find anything you need to know about building a website. If you have a question about coding, odds are the answer is already on Stack Overflow. And if it isn’t, some generous soul will get you a solution almost as soon as you ask for it.
While Something Awful had its moments as a host for various bits of comedy, rants, and reviews, SA’s community is its real legacy. From its forums, Something Awful members gave birth to the legend of Slenderman, an entire new genre of videos in Let’s Plays, and thanks to offshoots like the Goonswarm, SA was indirectly responsible for some of the mo...
The Electronic Frontier Foundation is probably best known for defending digital rights around the world since 1990, but the non-profit’s website, and its DeepLinks blog in particular, has also become a tremendous resource. EFF now does everything from publishing investigative journalism to distribute downloadable tools like the Privacy Badger. And ...
Oct 23, 2017 · Here’s TIME’s collection of the 15 websites that most influenced the medium, and why. 15. Match.com
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.
Oct 30, 2019 · “Popular Mechanics” just released a list of the 50 most important websites of all time. They say these are the sites that have made the Internet a, quote, “wonderful, weird, occasionally terrible, but always transformative place to be.”
Aug 13, 2018 · Some are among the most popular websites ever, while a couple you may have never even heard of, but in the end, what the following 10 websites all have in common is that they are members of an elite group: the most important websites ever. CERN. CERN is on here for one reason: it was the first website ever.
Among the sites that made the list are Blingee (2006), PizzaNet (1994; the LA Times was dubious), and Hampsterdance (1998). Keep reading to see Gizmodo's top 10 Internet-shaping websites.
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