Most Popular Websites 1993 - 2020
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 10 พ.ค. 2020
- In this data visualization video I look at the most popular websites based on monthly visits, the industry standard when comparing websites. It does not take into account page views nor unique visitors. Some of the data includes approximate numbers as the data available skipped years.
I also include screenshots of certain sites from the list as they looked during that particular year. The websites in the thumbnails include:
1993 Apple
First Apple website
1994 Amazon
Featured book search and shopping cart
1995 WebCrawler
Most popular search engine in the mid 90s
1996 Excite
Purchased WebCrawler after it's IPO that year
1997 BBC
Official launch followed by rebranding to BBCi
1998 Google
Official launch
1999 AOL
AOL Desktop kept users on AOL properties
2000 Apple
Steve Jobs regains leadership as CEO
2001 eBay
Had largest userbase of any e-commerce site
2002 Walmart
First version of the site had launched a year earlier
2003 MSN
MSN Explorer displaying MSN page
2004 Yahoo
Search and landing page
2005 MySpace
Acquired by News Corp. in July for $580M
2006 MySpace
Allowed custom backgrounds and colors
2007 TH-cam
Used as much bandwidth as entire internet in 2000
2008 Facebook
Introduced new design plus messenger
2009 Ask
Jeeves returns to the site
2010 Baidu
Becomes top search engine in China
2011 Amazon
Became the largest source of consumer reviews
2012 Amazon
Redesign and simplifying shopping experience
2013 MySpace
The horizontal redesign failed to captivate users
2014 Instagram
Started monetizing with video ads
2015 VK
Top social media site in Russia
2016 Twitter
The "verified" blue check-mark was unveiled
2017 Wikipedia
2018 Walmart
Acquired Indian company Flipkart in August
2019-2020 Facebook
Redesign plus a new "care" reaction emoji
Thank You
Which have been your favorite websites of all time?
The reason why yahoo lived so long is because it tricked all of us into setting it as “home page” 😂
i figure that's probably the reason google has 3x as many views as the rest as well and why msn was even on there in the first place.
Trur
msn too
Yep that also explains MSN and Google.
For some reason, Yahoo still shows as my "default browser" even though I've assigned that to Google many times. When i go to my settings and check on browsers, it says Google is the default but Yahoo always shows up once in a while. Gosh, i sound like a boomer who just learned internet terms.
The moment TH-cam overtook Facebook. that sparked joy.
"We trade one villain for another"
@@pluto3194 You're on TH-cam right now.
@@heavyhittergaming3881
Lack of a half decent alternative that's used by a lot of people.
😭
Faxs
Por* hub has joined the chat
Literally everyone in the comments section: I expected that.
i was literally taken by surprise
I expected it to be higher up the list lol
but I was surprised that it did so late...
Porkhub?
Why didn't it appear sooner it was already big back in the day.
I love that porn websites just came up like nobody's business
th-cam.com/video/LuKzt7p-MnM/w-d-xo.html
It was destiny
I didn’t know that much people search that up
Haha “came” 👀
Yeah and maybe you’re one of those numbers
About half of the Google traffic was to test the internet connection
lol, so true xD
Nah
False
Call me whatever
Then you have shit internet speeds lmao
Noo u search "q"
Genuinely surprised that ebay was more popular than Amazon for ten years, and that yahoo peaked above Google as late as 2010
Yeah Amazon is highly area-restricted. Ebay is used worldwide.
Amazon started for just books as well
@@baconinthesoap1 Not sure if that is as true these days as back then. I've used Amazon worldwide. I even had Amazon ship to me in Iraq, and no I don't mean a military address, they shipped to me to an actual street address in Baghdad.
....consider that Amazon used to sell only books, it started selling "everything" only relatively recently, and in people's mind it has remained so for long. Ebay was THE site where to sell/buy stuff.
annd to be honest I still find amazon layout , with so many "internal ads " of stuff you never asked for, very confusing
i never even used yahoo
I just watched the last 27 years flash before my eyes. The charting is exactly how things went as I remember them. I built OEM computers back in the 90s and helped setup lots of AOL accounts and then AT&T and GTE (Verizon) dial up accounts, then DSL setups and so forth. Wow, awesome video.
Try doing Most watched Television sites (Hulu, Disney+, Netflix, etc)
streaming services? I think it would be short one :)
Hbo?
Most watched in 2050 hehe
Apps
@@GnaTeX nope because every company thinks their shit doesn't stink and they can make a subscription service
That feeling the first time you see a site called AOL
i know 5.7 billion is a lot, but i’m still actually surprised wikipedia doesn’t have more than that given just how many students use it on a weekly basis
I guess that this number represents all the different devices that have ever entered the website
As a student I don’t think that’s true because teachers don’t let us use it as a source
Students don’t use it lol. Teachers don’t allow it because “anyone can edit it”
Wiki is most biased website
@@bradleywalton970 nah but we know the drill, we use the sources of Wikipedia
Glad to see Wikipedia at the top, I still thiink to this day it is one of the best websites ever created and one of the best things to ever happen to the Internet! :)
It saved me
Its good for science related stuff, but anything on politics, history is full of propaganda
I love Wikipedia
@@rafinhasupersayagin But teachers hate it.
It is too biased so nah
0:31 I didn't know Amazon was so old.
I thought it was release like 2012 😂
Call me whatever
It was a bookstore. Now it’s a multi billion dollar conglomerate that owns a space company and airplanes
Yeah it exists for thousands of years it’s located in South America :D
lol it was basically one of the only ecommerce sites on the early internet
Same! I guess when I was not born my dad worked there still? Idk
7:43 well thats a suprise in the bottom
Tasty
I'm on TH-cam now, Pornhub later
ummmmmmm 😂
I am surprised that Amazon is that unpopular in 2020
Once the puberty happens, you realise that it's not that surprising
7:42 two very unique websites different from others join the chart
Porkhub - all the meat you'll ever need
Ahh yes, 2017. The Age of Virginity.
2:18
For 7 years (1993-2000), AOL was first
Yahoo: Out of my way
4:08
For 6 years (2000-2006), Yahoo was first
Google: Out of my way
4:50
For only 2 years (2006-2008), Google was first
Yahoo: Takin' back my spot
5:23
For only 2 years (2008-2010), Yahoo was, once again, first
Google: I'm back
2010-present: Google is here to stay
youtube and facebook ALMOST caught up to google in 2014
I was also surprised to see how long Ask was on there. I thought everyone had stopped using it in the late 2000s. Surprisingly I still see the ask corporate tower whenever I travel to the East Bay. I'm from the North Bay.
I remember them doing dodgy things in the 2000s to lure people to their website
their hits shouldn't have even been counted because it was bogus traffic being sent from their shitty toolbar which came preinstalled or as adware in almost everything. install this program? sure! lets install the Ask toolbar without even asking you..
in europe noone knows ask , yahoo and aol.
@@pharkasj yeah that's absolutely not true.
And if you are from Europe and haven't heard of it it's clearly because you are too young
@@greyscalesx unfortunately i'm not young.
Love your videos. I was inspired by you to start my TH-cam channel. Thanks for the inspiration.
Shoutout to the homies who run Wikipedia, it saved my grades more than I could count
Thank you Captain. This was very insightful.
Glad I found this channel! Your videos are so good!
7:43 Entry of legends😂😂
I find these videos fascinating! Where do you find the data to make them?
Good question
@@greatbrobruhxdplayz2138 i thought your reply was gonna be the answer
they use their smart intuectual brains and then find the answers :D
look into the description of the video
nvm, it's not stated for this video. in others it was.
Good resource. Thank for sharing it!
200k subscribers, congratulations!
7:44 Yeaaah, I was waiting for them
Lmao 😆
Lmao same here
Would be interesting to see how much that got mixed up by Covid.
why you think 2 major pron sites jumped up
....all the hookers could not go out
Hey Captain Gizmo! Great vid -- where do you source your stats from?
the music is so amazing and cool, it takes me away from my daily stresses and school and brings me to an adventurous epic world
Wow, had no idea that Yahoo was so big for so long. Even around the 2006-8 it felt like the antiquated relic of a distant era.
Me: Such a fascinating video, I wonder if there’s something more coming up that I know.
Video: 7:44
Me: Right... I almost forgot about them..
Nice content!
wow, your videosare very interestant and nice!!!
i love how the gui of google has stayed similar for over two decades
Respect to AOL and Yahoo, they stand up for long time, they're the base.
Even without looking at the video you can pretty much go out and say that Google is a clear winner. Most popular search engine, is an email provider, owns youtube and also deals with ads.
Nah for me Amazon takes it all, I mean all. Google was in the best position to dare to even compete with Microsoft, it's the de facto search engine, but something is off, on the other side Amazon, oh boy, they diversified it's a empire, and they started by selling books online.
@@josematias2010 Yeah except Amazon didn't take it all lmao
@@ridge4649 being the most popular does not make it the most profitable, and in terms of diversification Amazon did a better job, that makes it more resilient for the future. AWS Amazon web services powers Netflix, Uber, Airbnb, etc. Google makes products but besides search and email what has survived?
@@josematias2010 And Amazon still didn’t take it all… damn
@@josematias2010 Man, Amazon is nothing outside the Us, the rest of the world exists too. Besides information is everything and might be the currency of these giants in the future.
Good information
Yahoo: I am the first
Google: hold my beer!
I am the first
@@araumbara6492 hold my comment
Hold my tea 😂
Oh great. Another very original "Hold My Beer" comment.
Your profile pict also says that 😂😂
It's awesome about how fast Google's visits growth was in 2005.
I contributed!
Hi ! You have done great .in what program did you do such data anylizing videos ?
Stay healthy and have a great day everyone
Thank you.
You to. ^^
Thanks bro! You as well!
Grimz thanks so much UwU you too 😊
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@@westiebus1559 What
2:30
Yahoo: Why do I hear boss... wait... nevermind.
Ja ein neues Video 🤭Finde ich wirklich sehr gut
Homie made a time machine to go back in time... Respect!!
Interesting! Question: where exactly did the data come from?
I would also like to know where one could find this data
According to the video, odds are it came from using google.
@@beneli7179 where exactly can one obtain such information on google?
Source : Trust me bro 😎
Source: internet
7:44
High speed internet and its consequences have been a disaster for the human race
Hahaha!!!
More like if people had sex those websites wouldn't be popular lol. The websites are popular because most men and some woman don't get none including me lmao 😂
Awesome
I love these
Interesting to see how big AOL was. In Sweden no one really new what that was.
I mostly knew it as a site that distributed free coasters.
Thats because it Stands for America OnLine -> AOL.
It is not called Sweden Online.
@@leonmuller8475 SwOL 😁🤣
The good old days when the only images you could search where birds and cats
So, just porn? No wonder dedicated porn sites took so long to make an appearance.
Completely blown away by the sheer age of IMDb
You should add more websites to this chart, we need more to get a better picture of the trends.
Most popular website is google because we are searching websites in google.
Yep
Mesmerizing. I love how Wikipedia keeps still on 5th place.
Fun fact: #FranzMesmer actually existed
I remember when AOL appeared, it was amaizing. All my friends used it. By '94 i bought my first PC. It was a DOS machine and i loved it. Such good times
:(. Plus i used to connect using a modem.
You can still use it!!!!!
I didn't get my first Internet connection until 1996, but I distinctly remember one of the first things I downloaded. The blood patch for Carmageddon (since at first the UK only got the zombie version before the full one later got released with an 18 rating). It was on a 28.8k modem and took about 35mins to download a 20mb file. xD
How it feel to see the internet change so much I was born in 2001 so I saw the chance in Google and TH-cam it's crazy to think
i was waiting for twitch =x
I was thinking just thinking, because of how long no adult sites were on the top, I expected them not to put it in, and then I saw them, and I had a spark of joy.
Не ожидал тут увидеть яндекс с контактиком впридачу. Приятно осознавать, что наши могут побороться с таким гигантом как гугл на мировой арене, а не только в странах СНГ
Мне кажется, что автор русский, поэтому добавил в топ)
@@user-rb2gx9xl8d не наврятле русский
It's easy to see when the quarantine started.
Pls do a comparison with cars
It always strikes me how late and slow google actually took off. and how low others fell
Google's essentially a league of its own. Surprised it didn't claim that earlier and it's going to remain that way for a long time to come yet.
nice
I was waiting for one p site appearing. But I cannot belive it, that we have only one in the top list.
omg and i could to have internet until the 2007, because i was very poor😞
Still poor? Better get some English classes going too...
Eliseo Caporale She is not English! Not everyone should be able to speak perfect English just because Americans don't want to speak another language. An example: Americans in their own country: "Speak English! We are in America!" Americans Abroad: "Can You Speak English?"
@@Benidestier yeah, that's right. But you just can't throw words in there as she did, you have f'n Google Translator for free.
Eliseo Caporale or just don't try to comment on youtube at all
@@sergiodiaz1365 well, not on all of TH-cam, but mostly on English speaking comment sections
That glorious "Red vs. Blue" match between TH-cam and Facebook was awesome.
Can you do most popular Android games and most popular animes on MAL?
Cool
I see the hub coming up like a champ. Good job people
It was funny how it just popped up out of no where.
@@R_JT69 it was likely the first year they reported total visits\
im actually glad of this community because facebook has been derroted by youtube
Good
Wow!Aol was in the list for 20 years
AOL to Yahoo: why are you running?😂
GÜZEL BİR VİDEO OLMUŞ
Yahoo the best!
And i miss the icq and msn days so much.
I briefly had ICQ, but somehow couldn't get it to work from within the AOL software.
this music is so good
What is the name of the song?
7:07 - "the "verified" blue check-mark was unveiled"
this was the beginning of the end for humanity.
Social media and smartphones (hence the omnipresence of social media) was the beginning of the end for humanity.
I really miss the 90's internet when internet was simpler
Hooray yay!!!!😃
God, Geocities was really the spirit of the early (public) Internet. ❤️
I love Geocieties. That's was an good website.
allegedly 89% of geocities traffic was to AsianPrince213's website...
I almost forgot about the "I have my own website" hype phase.
ya i had 96 email addresses and 96 10 meg sites pieced together till the following year when i got a server and really smoked it to tune of 12 million uniques a month
thats far more then you see here ....for late 94 into 95
144 million unque ips is rough like 1.4 billion hits
and yes i mad emoney from ads LOTS OF IT.....
whom said having the worlds largest hacker archive wasnt profitable
Geocities was the death of the spirit of the early internet.
It got people used to the idea that their personal data is on someone else's host.
It also got people used to putting up web pages and never caring about them afterwards, as a substitute to personal comunication. IRC and the web are from the same year, but now people confuse the web for the net.
I'd be really interested to see how 2020 and 2021 affected things
Tik tok
@@sebastianarchila9504 Unfortunately no intention to get any more social media. It's addictive enough as it is, without adding more apps to the equation
@@sebastianarchila9504 I don't know if tiktok counts as a website.
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Amazon sky rocketed … and im sure youtube did too.
@@sebastianarchila9504 Oh right, I thought you were saying the answer was on Tiktok, rather than that being one of the websites in question. Quite glad I'm not forming part of that userbase haha
I got online at home in 1998. This is like watching my own personal internet browsing history.
Well you might want to clear your browsing history. We can all see the two dodgy ones 😜
What surprises me the most is that Facebook has more visits than MySpace in 2009-2011, I don’t know anyone that had Facebook during that time but everyone I knew had a MySpace
Was on facebook from 2007 to 2010 when I realized it was only crap.
2050:
Google: I'm FIRST!!!
Ehe boy:Ehe boy!!
I will ask something, how can the visit decrease?
Thx
Didn't expect the PHub being feature in this video and it appeared surprisingly late. I know that PHub is much ancient than it really is and ironically started out like an ordinary SFW MSN for some reason without the Ps before the P part of its name became literally its own only identity according to the wayback machine.
7:43 January 2018.......I wonder...what happend......
Странно... Хотите сказать Aliexpress не попал в топ?
Русский?
@@user-jd4nw5kh2f yep
Putin
.
Budin
I did not realize that Amazon was older than eBay…..
We used Prodigy in our school back in 1993.
Idk why but I felt a bit sad when I saw yahoo started dropping.
Not first, but early :)
I love that American Greetings was a contending player, in the early days of the internet.
E-cards were a big deal when they first appeared.
In which program do you do This?
3:43 *Google steps on the gas*
Baidu might get up to third or 2nd most visits before we know it.
Damn, I suppose I learned quite a bit from this
Long life to the page above Amazon during this year.