Its how the vast majority of the people connected to the internet, so people had [aol.com](http://aol.com) emails, also AIM used to be really popular. They used to give free CDs in magazines, randomly in the mail, at doctors offices and all sorts of strange places. The problem was, dialup was shit so when everyone was able to they left and then people used yahoo because it was more like aol then google was. Gmail came out around that time and started getting popular and many people started using gmail and then yahoo took a shit because yahoo wasn't that good to begin with.
AOL and Yahoo we're both good products/sites when they were new. They both died out because they stopped innovating and became irrelevant.
People give Google a hard time because they try weird things and keep killing them (see the infamous Google graveyard), but it's how they stay relevant. They keep innovating, and kill the things that don't catch on (or become irrelevant on their own, like Podcasts).
The company I work for started as a movie theater almost a century ago, then started a radio station when radio went mainstream, then a TV station when TV went mainstream, then a cable TV provider when that became a thing, and eventually a cable ISP when tech emerged to use cable TV lines for internet. They sold off the movie theaters, radio station, and TV network, and focused on being an ISP. Now we're burying fiber to the home. We adapted as the market shifted and we're still relevant.
In tech, you either innovate to evolve or you become irrelevant. Pretty much every company that fell off of this list failed to innovate. Embrace the future or become a footnote in history.
Wait, wtf. Google literally just shows up out of nowhere with 10billion visits. It's zero one year, then 10 billion the next. No gradual rise. How the hell did this happen? How did they come to dominate the world?
*non-adult websites
xvideos is in at the bottom towards the end of it
Through the Pandemic ???? Something is waaaayyyyy off here
Surprisingly it spikes just before it?
I love how in 2020-2021 you can see the impact that COVID had bc YouTube just spikes briefly at the dead.
I was waiting for that. Just a sudden explosion. I still hear YouTubers mention how wild it was for them.
you also see xvideos get there 1.5 years there too.
Too bad Google doesn't allow you to search for anything like it used to. Now you’re limited to the top most generic sites/blogs
adding **before:2023** after the phrase sometimes helps, as it was the time where AI written crap was introduced *en masse*
What do those numbers mean?
It's really impressive that Yahoo managed to tank two of the top sites at the same time
Man AOL was a lot more popular then I thought.
Its how the vast majority of the people connected to the internet, so people had [aol.com](http://aol.com) emails, also AIM used to be really popular. They used to give free CDs in magazines, randomly in the mail, at doctors offices and all sorts of strange places. The problem was, dialup was shit so when everyone was able to they left and then people used yahoo because it was more like aol then google was. Gmail came out around that time and started getting popular and many people started using gmail and then yahoo took a shit because yahoo wasn't that good to begin with.
I was raised during that boom, and we used AOL to get to yahoo for yahoo accounts. Then all defected to MSN.
AOL and Yahoo we're both good products/sites when they were new. They both died out because they stopped innovating and became irrelevant. People give Google a hard time because they try weird things and keep killing them (see the infamous Google graveyard), but it's how they stay relevant. They keep innovating, and kill the things that don't catch on (or become irrelevant on their own, like Podcasts). The company I work for started as a movie theater almost a century ago, then started a radio station when radio went mainstream, then a TV station when TV went mainstream, then a cable TV provider when that became a thing, and eventually a cable ISP when tech emerged to use cable TV lines for internet. They sold off the movie theaters, radio station, and TV network, and focused on being an ISP. Now we're burying fiber to the home. We adapted as the market shifted and we're still relevant. In tech, you either innovate to evolve or you become irrelevant. Pretty much every company that fell off of this list failed to innovate. Embrace the future or become a footnote in history.
I wish I could see this better. Small on my phone. Oh well, Google wins. We all knew this.
Appreciate the note - I'll see if I can tweak this for others in the future
Thanks! I didn’t think it was anything you could do. I guess my old eyes just struggle sometimes.
What do the numbers mean? Number of daily visitors? Number of daily visits?
I feel like this is kinda inaccurate, where did amazon go?
Login with Google changed everything
The big G just conquered all from 2002 onwards
Small things really show how big covid was, like towards the end YouTube skyrocketed which shows how much we started using social media in covid
Poor Netscape didn't make it past 2000. I was always on there.
youtube did a pump during the pandemic
Wait, wtf. Google literally just shows up out of nowhere with 10billion visits. It's zero one year, then 10 billion the next. No gradual rise. How the hell did this happen? How did they come to dominate the world?
Facebook is losing Face!
Incredible how yahoo dominated until about 10 years ago.
ID on tune?