15 Websites That Changed the World 298
nuke-alwin writes "To mark the web's 15th anniversary, The Guardian is reporting on 15 websites that changed the world. Everything from commercial sites like eBay and Amazon to social collaboratives like Wikipedia and Slashdot made the list." From the article's comments on Blogger: "Content was once made by companies for passive consumption by people. After Blogger, people were the content. They wrote about and read about their friends, their opinions, their cats. (There was a lot about cats in the early blogs.) None had a huge audience but collectively they were massive. Now you see TV networks saying: 'We've gotta get on the web because that's where the audience is,' says Williams."
Missing one... (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Someone's gotta do this, and I don't like whori (Score:5, Funny)
What about goatse? (Score:5, Funny)
What? (Score:2, Funny)
one man's summary (Score:5, Funny)
2. wikipedia.com - Brittanica on the bathroom wall
3. napster.com - for about three minutes
4. youtube.com - eh
5. blogger.com - they wanted to acknowledge blogging, this is their surrogate
6. friendsreunited.com (School reunion site)- never heard of it. probably helpful for stalking that girl who spit on you in 10th grade.
7. drudgereport.com (News site)- not really a News Site. A link aggregator with an agenda.
8. myspace.com - for about three MORE minutes
9. amazon.com - changed shopping, anyway.
10. slashdot.org - WHO?
11. salon.com (Online magazine and media company)- changed the world? How about "provides a home for whining elitists"?
12. craigslist.org - supermarket community bulletin board with more eyes
13. google.com - changed the Internet maybe. The WORLD? nah
14. yahoo.com - see #13
15. easyjet.com (Budget airline)- see #6
If this is how the Internet has changed the world, please have it changed back promptly.
There was a lot about cats in the early blogs. (Score:5, Funny)
15 Years ago... (Score:5, Funny)
It was much BETTER...
Re:There was a lot about cats in the early blogs. (Score:3, Funny)
Aww, aren't they so cute and fuzzy wuzzy? I think I'm gonna go find one of our overlords now and place his cutsy-wutsy self in my lap.*
*Note from feline overlords: The above message of cuteness and cuddliness is not endorsed by Felines Leading Understanding of Fierocity and Feralness in You.(FLUFFY)
Re:5.5m users a month? (Score:4, Funny)
Not everyone bothers getting an account (Score:5, Funny)
No dupe? (Score:2, Funny)
How come Slashdot is only listed once?
Re:No dupe? (Score:5, Funny)
It was ABOUT Slashdot, not ON Slashdot. otherwise there would have been the obligatory dupe, listing them twice.
#16 (Score:3, Funny)
OK, maybe it didn't change, like, the WHOLE world, but it sure rocked mine.
Re:Someone's gotta do this, and I don't like whori (Score:2, Funny)
Anyhow, we were the uplink for Amazon and I had to deal with them quite often. One day I asked Nik what "Amazon" was and he told me it was a book store.
I told him it was a really stupid name for a bookstore. Shows what I knew.
No Sex For You ! (Score:3, Funny)
When's the last time anyone was paid $14 million For Sex [slashdot.org] ?
A click storm a brewing (Score:2, Funny)
Re:What about goatse? (Score:1, Funny)
Slashdot may not have changed history (Score:4, Funny)
Re:one man's summary (Score:3, Funny)
And Usenet. Be fair.
Re:Someone's gotta do this, and I don't like whori (Score:1, Funny)
Re:No dupe? (happy?) (Score:5, Funny)
How come Slashdot is only listed once?
It was ABOUT Slashdot, not ON Slashdot. otherwise there would have been the obligatory dupe, listing them twice.
Re:one man's summary (Score:2, Funny)
Re:one man's summary (Score:3, Funny)
Oooh, more chances to win!
Re:15 Years ago... (Score:2, Funny)