[HN Gopher] Websites That Changed the World (2006)
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Websites That Changed the World (2006)
Author : bookofjoe
Score : 39 points
Date : 2023-11-11 14:51 UTC (8 hours ago)
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| ulrischa wrote:
| Facebook is not in the list. Edit: I see it is from 2006.
| simbolit wrote:
| The list is from 2006, back then Facebook was rising, but not
| yet big-big.
| elicash wrote:
| Specifically, it's from a month before Facebook opened to
| everyone with an email address.
| ulrischa wrote:
| Ok I see. A Top 15 for our times would also be very
| interesting
| brvsft wrote:
| The list would need to incorporate apps because a lot of
| 'websites' that are extremely popular in use are more
| typically used as apps (e.g., Instagram).
| simbolit wrote:
| The list:
|
| * 1 EBay
|
| * 2 Wikipedia
|
| * 3 Napster
|
| * 4 YouTube
|
| * 5 Blogger
|
| * 6 friendsreunited
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| * 7 Drudge Report
|
| * 8 MySpace
|
| * 9 Amazon
|
| * 10 slashdot
|
| * 11 salon
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| * 12 Craigslist
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| * 13 Google
|
| * 14 yahoo
|
| * 15 easyjet
| mattcantstop wrote:
| GitHub would certainly be on the list now. Not from the public
| psyche, but in terms of actual impact.
| gardenhedge wrote:
| Wow, very interesting to see this list from 2006. What are the
| sites that would be in the top 15 now?
|
| Facebook
|
| Twitter
|
| Netflix
|
| ChatGPT?
| throwaway167 wrote:
| +s for:
|
| GitHub (influence).
|
| Reddit (despite spez, it has a handful more years).
|
| YouTube (remaining video king).
|
| Signal and Tiktok if apps are allowed.
| afefers wrote:
| I don't know anybody who uses Signal and isn't a programmer
| (on the cryptography/security side) or journalist that needs
| it in order to work. Anybody else uses Telegram, WhatsApp, or
| both. SMS if you're in the USA.
| agumonkey wrote:
| c2.com changed some world
|
| and symbolics.com didn't change it enough
| _the_inflator wrote:
| Digg, Delicious, Technorati, ICQ, Stumbleupon, Astalavista, eMule
| and many file hosters have been critical and changed the world as
| well at that time. ;)
| kylecazar wrote:
| I think arguments could be made for MSN, Geocities and maybe even
| MapQuest as honorable mentions.
|
| It's not necessarily that whey were groundbreaking as much as
| extremely popular. The design and content and strategy decisions
| influenced others to come.
| blowski wrote:
| easyjet is a pretty odd inclusion on this list. They weren't the
| first, biggest, or most innovative budget airline website - even
| in the UK.
|
| The contributor (Carole Cadwalladr) wrote a puff piece [1] about
| easyjet a few months before, so she is obviously a big fan.
|
| [1] https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2005/may/08/transport.world1
| dylmye wrote:
| After the whole Easy Life situation[1] I'm completely over
| them. What scummy business practices.
|
| [1] https://www.theguardian.com/business/2023/oct/03/easyjet-
| own...
| elicash wrote:
| For my world, personally (in no order), my top four:
|
| 1. Geocities is where I built my first website and got me started
| in web design.
|
| 2. DailyKos got me interested in local political blogging and got
| me started in politics as a career.
|
| 3 and 4: twelve years ago, I met my fiancee and we became friends
| on Facebook, and then moved to different cities for a decade. And
| two years ago, after moving back, we matched on OKCupid and I
| alluded to us being FB friends to get a reply.
| throwaway167 wrote:
| I don't see any newspaper sites there, and I can't make a strong
| case for a newspaper now.
|
| For all the pleading to save journalism to content walls that do
| nothing but self silo and isolate their voice, I feel big
| newspaper journalism has consistently dropped the ball so much
| it's rolled into an entirely different ballpark. The 4th estate
| is failing.
| mg wrote:
| A friend and I had a discussion today, whether Amazon was a small
| internet company among many, back when it IPOed in 1997. Or if it
| already stood out as one of the biggest IPOs of that time.
|
| To our surprise, we did not find a list of dotcom IPOs from the
| 90s together with their IPO market cap.
|
| If someone here knows about such a list, I would love to see it.
| raldi wrote:
| I'm certainly in the 99th percentile of early tech adopters and
| I didn't place my first Amazon order until 2000.
| passion__desire wrote:
| I have an idea for a free speech website, which could be called
| as TalkingPoints.org
|
| Basically today, idea wars are being faught in Tiktok and
| Instagram and Reddit and each such website has a distinctive
| flavour and their own hive mind. To allow better outside ideas,
| opinions and facts to infiltrate such closed walled gardens, this
| website would collect "talking points" from all around the web
| which users of such networks could just copy paste and ask
| influencers peddling a particular narrative to explain their
| stand on other side's best facts.
|
| Consider two opposing sides A and B of a particular issue. There
| will be two boards : Pro-A and Pro-B. People in favour of Pro-A
| would collect self-contained talking points of A and there will
| be rating system and so on. Similarly for Pro-B.
|
| I remember there was a nice website (don't remeber the name)
| which was build with a very complex UI to discuss complex issues.
| Basically there was a top level statements in blue, and one can
| expand statments in favour of it (or against it would be in
| green) and that new statement will be come a blue statement. I
| liked the motive of that website. Instead of wikipedia's neutral
| point of view principle[0], this should allow best framing of any
| side to be represented, sort of like steelmanning.
|
| [0]
| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Neutral_point_of_vie...
| JimRyan wrote:
| The website you mention might be kialo.com?
| passion__desire wrote:
| Yes, thank you.
| supriyo-biswas wrote:
| The problem is that people writing in support of the positions
| that they believe often unintentionally elide things that they
| consider obvious, which, from the perspective of the other
| group, sounds like nonsensical mumbo-jumbo, resulting in
| derisive assessments of the first group as "idiots", "lunatics"
| and so on.
|
| Further, people also like staying in their ingroup, so while a
| flat-earther can already look up evidence and statements
| supporting a spherical Earth, they often choose to remain in
| their ingroup to avoid the cognitive dissonance from
| contradictory information.
| ronsor wrote:
| See also: the anti-AI debate, where most discussion has
| devolved into either how "AI bros" are evil or artists are
| all "dumb luddites."
|
| Both sides believe all their points to be so obvious that the
| only explanation for why someone could disagree is that
| they're either stupid or malicious.
| passion__desire wrote:
| People don't even have the same facts to base distinct
| opinions from. If one side's collection of facts differ from
| another, there is no hope to reach any sort of agreement. The
| whole propaganda thing is orchestrated to convince
| bystanders, a large silent majority, so having them all the
| facts is what this process about. The influencers might not
| change their position but the bystanders will not be
| enthusiastic to the same degree especially when they have
| both sides's facts. If this happens consistently, the debate
| would have advanced to a more nuanced take. It is hard to be
| violent and morally upright about it when you also know about
| your own shortcomings.
| elicash wrote:
| It's somewhat different, but reminds me of some of the
| aspirations of Brigade years ago
| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brigade_Media
| blackoil wrote:
| Of all listed many are dead/irrelevant now: *
| napster.com - Now Spotify, streaming music have taken its place.
| * blogger.com - Blogging is dead for general public. Medium,
| Substack have captured some space. * friendsreunited.com
| * drudgereport.com * myspace.com * slashdot.org
| * salon.com * yahoo.com
| vlark wrote:
| You might claim Yahoo! is irrelevant, but it still gets 3.6
| billion visits a month:
| https://www.similarweb.com/website/yahoo.com/#overview
|
| Drudgereport gets 57 million visits a month:
| https://www.similarweb.com/website/drudgereport.com/#overvie...
|
| Blogger gets 38 million vists a month:
| https://www.similarweb.com/website/blogger.com/#overview
|
| Salon gets 8.4 million visits a month:
| https://www.similarweb.com/website/salon.com/#overview
|
| So, not totally irrelevant to the overall social conversation,
| but getting there. Except for Yahoo.
| autokad wrote:
| Me thinking about 2006,
|
| digg.com was something I went to every day. Found it more
| entertaining than slashdot.
|
| craigslist was something I used a lot, finding dates, things to
| buy, a place to rent.
|
| for downloading stuff, if I recall I used kazaa
|
| instant message: msn messenger
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