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?
UPDATE: Check out Times list of the 50 collest websites as well
Facebook
Twitter
Digg
Reddit
StumbleUpon
I also blogged about this article after reading the Observer link. The comments highlighted a glaring omission, where is Hotmail on this list?
Since the internet is largely about communications, surely the first tool to bring email to the masses is pretty important!
August 15th, 2006 at 9:19 am
Flickr, ryanair.
August 15th, 2006 at 11:05 am
…and olso last minute and digg
August 15th, 2006 at 11:08 am
Someone else commented on goatse and 4chan. These sites typify all that is reat/funny/wrong about the internet. I think it’s probably important to include a few sites from the underbelly of the internet, because let’s face it, the internet isn’t all sweetness and light!
August 16th, 2006 at 4:54 am
+psfk.com
In fact it changed my world :)
August 16th, 2006 at 1:29 pm