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15 Websites That Changed the World

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the shake-it-up dept.

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."

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  1. I don't see how napster.com made the list by artifex2004 · · Score: 0, Redundant

    The original Napster program, as a groundbreaking P2P app, certainly was very important in changing the way the Internet is used.
    The website itself, however, was just a place to download the program.

    If a music-sharing site needs to be on the list, the original MP3.com is a better choice.

  2. Stupid mistake by sootman · · Score: 0, Redundant

    It wasn't Napster, the website, that changed the world. It was Napster, the software. Everyone I know went to the site exactly once--to download the app. It was not a "file sharing site."

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    Dear Slashdot: next time you want to mess with the site, add a rich-text editor for comments.
  3. Anyone can play this game. by ettlz · · Score: 0, Redundant

    1. Google.com; 2. Slashdot; 3. arXiv.org (preprints galore); 4. HoTMaiL (back when it was good); 5. Amazon.com 6. Wikipedia; 7. Flickr; 8. del.icio.us; 9. The Internet Archive; 10. Cryptome; 11. goatse.cx 12. MathWorld; 13. eBay/PayPal; 14. MySpace; 15. Timecube.