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Websites That Changed The World

Websites That Changed The World

By Guy Brighton on August 15, 2006

Here’s a nice little article celebrating 15 years of the internet and reviewing ‘websites that changed the world’, from the book A Brief History of the Future: Origins of the Internet by John Naughton:

1. eBay.com
2. wikipedia.com
3. napster.com
4. youtube.com
5. blogger.com
6. friendsreunited.com
7. drudgereport.com
8. myspace.com
9. amazon.com
10. slashdot.org
11. salon.com
12. craigslist.org
13. google.com
14. yahoo.com
15. easyjet.com

Have they missed any out?

Observer article link.

UPDATE: Check out Times list of the 50 collest websites as well

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