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15 Websites That Changed the World
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."
Where's my website?! Didn't my Slashdot F.A.Q. change the world? :P
Great, misformatted and I forgot to check 'Post Anonymously'. Great.
That changed my world, permanently.
How can you trust a list like that when it doesn't include goatse. Where have they been?
1. eBay.com - a big Flea Market
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.
Silly, that's because a cat owns the Internet.
Lacking <sarcasm> tags,
It was much BETTER...
This is the Grauniad we're talking about here. Forgive them, for they know roughly what they do.
He said flashing his 4 digit UID. Oi you, get off my lawn.
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How come Slashdot is only listed once?
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OK, maybe it didn't change, like, the WHOLE world, but it sure rocked mine.
For funny, way back when (mid-90's or so) I worked for IXA (now part of Savvis) as a network engineer. There were 2 of us, me and Nikos Moaut (or however you spell his name)
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.
I can't believe Sex.com isn't on that list !
When's the last time anyone was paid $14 million For Sex ?
Wanna fight ? Bend over, stick your head up your ass, and fight for air.
Hope this story does not create a sudden rush of vistitors to slashdot, so many so that the site goes down and create a name for that phenomenon ;-)
sed -e 's/Chuck Norris/Rajnikant/g' joke > fact
But when it melts server after server, it is surely changing insurance quotes
It's a small world and it smells funny; I'd buy another if it wasn't for the money; Take back what I paid (SoM)
Uh, what about The Best Page in the Universe?
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.
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