Websites that changed the world

[Amina-DZ]

John Naughton
Sunday August 13, 2006
The Observer

1. eBay.com

Founded: Pierre Omidyar, 1995, US

Users: 168m

What is it? Auction and shopping site

2. wikipedia.com

Founded: Jimmy Wales, 2001, US

Users: 912,000 visits per day

What is it? Online encyclopaedia

3. napster.com

Founded: Shawn Fanning, 1999, US

Users: 500,000 paying subscribers

What is it? File sharing site

4. youtube.com

Founded: Chad Hurley, Steve Chen and Jawed Karim, 2005, US

Users: 100m clips watched a day

What is it? Video sharing site

5. blogger.com

Founded: Evan Williams, 1999, US

Users: 18.5m unique visitors

What is it? Weblog publishing system

6. friendsreunited.com

Founded: Steve and Julie Pankhurst, 1999, UK

Users: 15m

What is it? School reunion site

7. drudgereport.com

Founded: Matt Drudge, 1994, US

Users: 8-10m page views per day

What is it? News site

8. myspace.com

Founded: Tom Anderson and Chris DeWolfe, 2003, US

Users: 100m

What is it? Social networking site

9. amazon.com

Founded: Jeff Bezos, 1994, US

Users: More than 35m customers in over 250 countries

What is it? Online retailer, primarily of books, CDs and DVDs

10. slashdot.org

Founded: Rob Malda, 1997, US

Users: 5.5m per month

What is it? Technology news website and internet forum

11. salon.com

Founded: David Talbot, 1995, US

Users: Between 2.5 and 3.5m unique visitors per month

What is it? Online magazine and media company Salon grew out of a strike.

12. craigslist.org

Founded: Craig Newmark, 1995, US

Users: 4bn page views per month

What is it? A centralised network of online urban communities, featuring free classified advertisements and forums

13. google.com

Founded: Larry Page and Sergey Brin, 1998, US

Users: A billion search requests per day

What is it? Search engine and media corporation

14. yahoo.com

Founded: David Filo and JerryYang, 1994, US

Users: 400m

What is it? Internet portal and media corporation

15. easyjet.com

Founded: Stelios

Haji-Ioannou, 1995, UK

Users: 30m passengers last year

What is it? Budget airline

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[phylay]

I didn't visit 50% of them and it's the first time I hear of 3 or 4!!

[Khokom]

Why isnt Algeria.com in that list?


16. Algeria.com

Founded: Anonymous, 2058, ALG

Users: Most users ever online was 379, Yesterday at 11:01.

What is it? A virtual home to many Algerians and Non-Algerians.

Khokom.

[DeltaAziz]

Salam

Algeria.com is not well known...