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A Visual History Of The 20 Internet Giants That Ruled The Web From 1998 To 2018

• https://www.zerohedge.com, by Tyler Durden

Many of the top websites in 1998 were basically news aggregators or search portals, which are easy concepts to understand. Today, brand touch-points are often spread out between devices (e.g. mobile apps vs. desktop site) and a myriad of services and sub-brands (e.g. Facebook's constellation of apps). As a result, the world's biggest websites are complex, interconnected web properties.

Today's visualization, inspired by an earlier work published by WaPo, looks at which of the internet giants have evolved to stay on top, and which have faded into internet lore.

America Moves Online

For millions of curious people the late '90s, the iconic AOL compact disc was the key that opened the door to the World Wide Web. At its peak, an estimated 35 million people accessed the internet using AOL.


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