Sticksboi05 Posted August 1, 2012 Author Share Posted August 1, 2012 This is why I included LiveJournal. I honestly don't know which of the personal blogging sites came first, but that's the first one I remember all my friends using. I think it pioneered the way for the "everyone has a voice" and "everything I say is important enough to be made public" mantra we live by today.---------- Post added August-1st-2012 at 11:05 AM ---------- It's #2 on my list... "I agree "HE" has a great list. He = not you since you're a girl. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pick6 Posted August 1, 2012 Share Posted August 1, 2012 I am not going to name a site, but some kind of porn website should probably be on the list. It is a huge industry. If you don't know what I am talking about. Watch the movie Middle Men. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1251757/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
renaissance Posted August 1, 2012 Share Posted August 1, 2012 "I agree "HE" has a great list. He = not you since you're a girl. Well sorrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr-y. Next time quote him or only quote the relevant part of my post. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TMK9973 Posted August 1, 2012 Share Posted August 1, 2012 Well sorrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr-y.Next time quote him or only quote the relevant part of my post. The important part of this is "HE" (or me) had a great list.... I think that is the take away... ---------- Post added August-1st-2012 at 09:31 AM ---------- I am not going to name a site, but some kind of porn website should probably be on the list. It is a huge industry. If you don't know what I am talking about. Watch the movie Middle Men. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1251757/ WHAT! There is PORN on the internet?!!! I had no idea!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sjinhan Posted August 1, 2012 Share Posted August 1, 2012 1 - Yahoo: 1st mainstream search engine2- Hotmail: 1st mainstream email 3- Monster: changed job searching forever 4- Youtube: Made everyone a star 5- MySpace / Facebook: I actually think facebook would have happened with or without Myspace -But myspace did come first so they get mentioned 6 - Etrade: Brought Stock trading to the masses 7 - Napster: If that didn't change music I don't know what did. 8 - Pets.com: Made everyone realize that eventually, Websites actually needed to make money to be successful. 9 - Ebay: Let everyone know everyone could use the web to buy thing 10 - Paypal: gave a way for everyone to pay *11 - bonus - FrequentFlier.com - 1st one to sell Airline tickets online (Although after ebay, Paypal, etc...that would have happened anyway) now this is a solid list... although I would change yahoo and hotmail with the AOL and Google... AOL is the one that actually brought both search/mail/webchat to the masses... and Google for its dominance in web search... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TMK9973 Posted August 1, 2012 Share Posted August 1, 2012 I am not going to name a site, but some kind of porn website should probably be on the list. It is a huge industry. If you don't know what I am talking about. Watch the movie Middle Men. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1251757/ WHAT! There is PORN on the internet?!!! I had no idea!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bang Posted August 1, 2012 Share Posted August 1, 2012 Whichever pornsite was first is huge. Porn delivery drives a lot of innovation. ~Bang Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HogNose Posted August 1, 2012 Share Posted August 1, 2012 Whichever pornsite was first is huge. Porn delivery drives a lot of innovation.~Bang Whitehouse.com was a good one back then..........from what I hear. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TMK9973 Posted August 1, 2012 Share Posted August 1, 2012 now this is a solid list... although I would change yahoo and hotmail with the AOL and Google... AOL is the one that actually brought both search/mail/webchat to the masses... and Google for its dominance in web search... You could argue AOL over yahoo. But google came later -Without Yahoo, there might not be a google. And although AOL did have email -Hotmail was the first 100% free email. AOL you had to be a member. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bang Posted August 1, 2012 Share Posted August 1, 2012 Whitehouse.com was a good one back then..........from what I hear. Persian kitty... i recall reading about it in USA today on a lunch break from my Joe Job. Some woman created it in her spare time, just aggregating porn links.. clearing 80k per month. I wanted a new job right then and there. ~Bang Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
renaissance Posted August 1, 2012 Share Posted August 1, 2012 You could argue AOL over yahoo. But google came later -Without Yahoo, there might not be a google. And although AOL did have email -Hotmail was the first 100% free email (I think). AOL you had to be a member. I'd give AOL an edge because they offered instant messaging which I believe changed the way people communicated with each other. I'm not sure if that was really available or popular among any other service, other than maybe ICQ. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TMK9973 Posted August 1, 2012 Share Posted August 1, 2012 True - But your now ventruing in to most important ISP's over website. Their IM was part of their services. I do agree AOL was probably the most important service to the web...but not webpage.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sticksboi05 Posted August 1, 2012 Author Share Posted August 1, 2012 As far as webpage definitely Yahoo! over AOL. AOL however may be the most influential ISP of all-time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Forehead Posted August 1, 2012 Share Posted August 1, 2012 Persian kitty... i recall reading about it in USA today on a lunch break from my Joe Job. Some woman created it in her spare time, just aggregating porn links.. clearing 80k per month.I wanted a new job right then and there. ~Bang Persian Kitty Adult Links was my go-to in high school....ah, dial-up pornography, helping me become a man one downloaded tit per minute. Nothing beat Persian Kitty, whoever was in charge of that had hundreds (if not thousands) of links sorted by category. Blissful youth.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HogNose Posted August 1, 2012 Share Posted August 1, 2012 Persian kitty... i recall reading about it in USA today on a lunch break from my Joe Job. Some woman created it in her spare time, just aggregating porn links.. clearing 80k per month.I wanted a new job right then and there. ~Bang Yeah I remember seeing an interview with her when the real .GOV site put their foot down. Looking back now, I could have easily created a basic no frills site in the lucrative early 90's and made a killing. I also think of all the generic domain names that people bought and resold for millions. woulda coulda shoulda Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Riggo-toni Posted August 1, 2012 Share Posted August 1, 2012 EBay Amazon Google Wikipedia Yahoo ITunes Pornhub Youtube Skype (not sure if this counts) And as much as I hate them..twitter and facebook Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sticksboi05 Posted August 1, 2012 Author Share Posted August 1, 2012 Would you say iTunes as a website or as a computer program? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pick6 Posted August 1, 2012 Share Posted August 1, 2012 Would you say iTunes as a website or as a computer program? I would think program, because you have to download it on your computer to use it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
greenspandan Posted August 1, 2012 Share Posted August 1, 2012 Google. Nobody else is even close. YouTube? I think you could say its had a substantial societal impact. Rodney king. Arab spring. i would argue Google doesn't even make the list. sure, it's by far the most dominant search engine there is, but if Google had never come along, the Web would still look and operate pretty much the same as it does today. It's not like they invented the search engine. they just slightly improved the existing idea, and then completely dominated the market. Yahoo was the first ginormous catalog of (practically) the entire World Wide Web. It essentially was responsible for making the Web instantly searchable. I would put them at the top of the list importance-wise. Alta Vista, dogpile, webcrawler, lycos, infoseek, google, etc ... they were just following Yahoo's footprints. Google ended up on top, sure, but someone had to. i don't really see how they changed the Web so much as dominated it. other extraordinarily important sites to the history of the modern internet: Amazon.com - selling stuff online since 1995, a true pioneer in e-commerce. there was a tremendous amount of doubt and skepticism towards sending one's credit card info whizzing off through the interweb net thing, and Amazon.com's ubiquity helped normalize that concept. YouTube - revolutionizing instant access to video, creating a whole new media form. Facebook - now the defacto method, largely replacing email, letters, phone calls, personal websites, live journals, web forums, etc, by which friends and relatives engage socially and stay in touch. Wikipedia - instant access to an encyclopedia that completely dwarfs every other encyclopedia ever created, in terms of breadth of topics (as well as accuracy, despite what critics say). MapQuest - instant directions to anywhere. When was the last time you bought a map, or asked someone how to get to an address? ---------- Post added August-1st-2012 at 11:07 AM ---------- I would think program, because you have to download it on your computer to use it. iTunes, Napster, Netscape, etc don't count. they were revolutionary applications, not revolutionary websites. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bliz Posted August 1, 2012 Share Posted August 1, 2012 Most of the major ones have been hit so far, but I think Drudge Report is a big omission. Completely changed the way people consume news, the sources they got it from, and of course broke "that story". And now one guy with a link aggregator website drives how the major media organizations cover politics. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SkinsFanSoMD Posted August 1, 2012 Share Posted August 1, 2012 Fantasy sports/betting web sites? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The X-Factor Posted August 1, 2012 Share Posted August 1, 2012 1 - Yahoo: 1st mainstream search engine2- Hotmail: 1st mainstream email 3- Monster: changed job searching forever 4- Youtube: Made everyone a star 5- MySpace / Facebook: I actually think facebook would have happened with or without Myspace -But myspace did come first so they get mentioned 6 - Etrade: Brought Stock trading to the masses 7 - Napster: If that didn't change music I don't know what did. 8 - Pets.com: Made everyone realize that eventually, Websites actually needed to make money to be successful. 9 - Ebay: Let everyone know everyone could use the web to buy thing 10 - Paypal: gave a way for everyone to pay *11 - bonus - FrequentFlier.com - 1st one to sell Airline tickets online (Although after ebay, Paypal, etc...that would have happened anyway) A good list but I would leave off Napster, Paypal, Pets.com, and maybe Etrade. Napster wasn't a website, it was a program so it doesn't belong in this list. PayPal is a great tool, but not as many people as you think use it. As far as Pets.com I think most investors would have eventually realized what it took to make a website successful. Etrade again is a great tool, but I'm not quite sure it covers a large enough audience. My list in no particular order: Google - No explanation necessary Yahoo - One of the first major website. Bonus for still being relavent today. Wikipedia - The best srouce of information Hotmail - Made email mainstream Facebook - The impact of Facebook on daily lives is incredible. eBay - Introduced online shopping to the masses. Amazon - Changing the way we buy things. Just ask Best Buy how much of an influence Amazon has. Twitter - I'm not a big fan nor do I get the hype, but the news world has certainly changed because of it. Youtube - Many people have become famous because of it. Craigslist - Provides a simple way to communication and do business within a community. Bonus points for never changing their web design. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IONTOP Posted August 1, 2012 Share Posted August 1, 2012 Honestly, I would have to put Redtube or Youporn on the list... Completely revolutionized the "free stream/no download" porn... Before that, you'd have your go to site that would let you see 30 second clips for free and be stuck for the next 4 hours trying to find passwords that worked.. Then the streaming sites came along and that all stopped... :paranoid: :munchout: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SoulSkin Posted August 1, 2012 Share Posted August 1, 2012 Not disagreeing with what has been mentioned, but what about early online gaming sites like Gamespy.com? Way less relevant nowadays, but at one time, I thought the internet mostly existed so I could play Quake. That kind of stuff brought the concept of online matches, mods, etc. to the masses and eventually became the way people play video games mostly today,...online with other people. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Warhead36 Posted August 1, 2012 Share Posted August 1, 2012 In no particular order: Google Hotmail Facebook Amazon Wikipedia Yahoo Youtube Napster Ebay Twitter Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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