hongkiat.com — There are millions of websites out there. Many of them are unique. But the individual impact of any particular site on the overall Internet is generally negligible, if there's any impact at all. Not so with the fifteen sites here. These sites changed the Internet, mostly for good, in substantial ways.
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analogassassinMar 15, 2010
You might not agree with Drudge's stance on things, I know I don't, but you can't deny the impact his web site has on the news. Ask any news editor. His site basically DRIVES news reporting at many major news outlets.
iatethecakeMar 16, 2010
holy crap lycos is still around! and Angelfire looks like it stayed in the 90s lol
sfilipMar 16, 2010
Dugg for no reddit on the list.
browny1978Mar 16, 2010
im surprised at no ebay, the easiest way to buy junk/harder to find goods and its one of of the main places i buy cd's and dvd's
alphsMar 16, 2010
This list is garbage. Twitter? Apple? Drudge Report? It looks like the author had only recently found out about the internet and did minimal research on websites that actually shaped the internet in the past.Notably missing are websites like somethingawful and 4chan, Myspace, CNET, eBay, Napster, Tripod, Yahoo, IMDB, and Imageshack.
thecoffeeMar 16, 2010
Yeah and where were MySpace and Napster?
galacticxenuMar 16, 2010
And last.fm is still popular and is probably better than pandora. I agree with you.
galacticxenuMar 16, 2010
Almost everyone seems to have forgotten something very important that hasn't been around in awhile...insidetheweb.com and a bit later ezboards.comThese were probably the first message boards for most people and paved the way for vbulletin, phpBB, and others that have spawned since then. Remember, these were back in the earlier days when almost nobody had their own .com (geocities, yes, .com, no) and everyone used webrings and silly things like that. It's amazing how much the internet has changed when you go back and look at it.Insidetheweb.com is probably the most important website nobody here has mentioned. If you don't remember insidetheweb you are either too young, didn't read forums back then, or totally forgot.
explodingzebrasMar 17, 2010
exactly, thats the only time i went on jeeves back in high school