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DEL.ICIO.USSites that changed the world
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
To celebrate the 15th anniversary of the Web, John Naughton, Web specialist for the London Observer, and fellow staffers offered their list of the 15 Web sites that changed the world. While a couple of their choices take a decidedly British turn, most seem legitimate. They simply list the 15 most-influential sites; they don’t appear to rank them in importance.
1. eBay (auction and shopping)
2. Wikipedia (online encyclopedia)
3. Napster (file sharing)
4. Youtube (video sharing)
5. Blogger (blogging)
6. FriendsReunited (a popular U.K. school-reunion site)
7. DrudgeReport (news site)
8. MySpace (social networking site)
9. Amazon (online retailer)
10. Slashdot (tech news and forum)
11. Salon (online magazine)
12. Craigslist (community and classifieds)
13. Google (search and media corporation)
14. Yahoo! (portal and media corporation)
15. Easyjet (a low-cost British airline)
I have my own favorites, but let’s leave it to you.
What sites do you think should be on the list? What sites are they missing? What are your choices for the 15 most-influential sites of all time?
Comments
By Christman
August 14, 2006 08:43 PM | Link to this
I think the advent of the ubiquitous pop-up goat porn ads on computer screens are the greatest indication of where mankind’s soul is, and I also think that it’s quite obvious that we are all going to hell in a hand basket. I’ve never met a good man or woman. I hate to say it, but Jesus died in vain. Even with his suffering to save our souls, we managed to blow it, and will spend an eternity in hell, just because we are all selfish animals.
There have been 100 billion souls since Adam and Eve. All but a handful are in hell or (the six billion still alive) will end up in hell.
Except me, of course, I’m the only one alive who get’s Christ. I know what he meant, what he was about, and why he existed at all, and man oh man, was he right. You fools are selling your souls for nothing. Never sell your talent, cause the moment you do, you lose it.
How can you avoid hell? You cant, but I can tell you how to impress Christ so that he might give you and you alone a break: Never pray for yourself, or anyone who would benefit you. Always pray for the nameless, faceless disadvantaged people, the people that dont even show up on your own radar. Prayer does have merit. Nothing else a man can utter does. It’s all lip synched paganism, and will necessarily seal your doom. Say very little. Say nothing at all. The effect would be the same for you. Talk or dont talk. Express yourself, and be condemned to hell for an eternity. You are the devil’s flesh and the bowels of his delight. Pray for those who despise you, and seek your destruction. That would impress Christ. You may get a break, but I doubt it.
Forget it, you devils wont listen, so why waste my time. Hell for you all, and there’s nothing you will do to save yourself, even if you could.
By MC
August 18, 2006 06:29 PM | Link to this
^I really wish I could be certain that Christman is using heavily cloaked sarcasm, but it doesn’t seem like it. The end of the week can be stressful sometimes…maybe he’s just taking it hard. Hm.
But I won’t touch that. I can’t. I wouldn’t even know where to start.
So then, the topic at hand: I would put an image-hosting site like Photobucket or Imageshack up there, the latter of which I utilize. Imageshack even hosts Flash files of limited size—like this one I finished today.
By MC
August 18, 2006 06:36 PM | Link to this
Well now, wait—he posted that on Monday. Of course. >_<
By anonymousella
August 24, 2006 12:21 PM | Link to this
missing from the list? asianavenue.com and blackplanet.com, predecessors to MySpace.com. they did what myspace, friendster, et al did before “social networking sites” was an actual web site genre.