Most Popular Websites (1995-2024) | Asmongold Reacts 

Amazons real size is the all the other websites that run on AWS infrastructure.

The graph is visits, not money spent. Amazon is not something you visit several times a day, unlike Google.

Don't be fooled. We're really witnessing a competition to see which site you have selected to be your home/start page when you open your browser. The real coolness was in the bottom half of the screen the whole time.

2007 to 2009 is when Internet competition plummeted and Advertising crossed between Google, Facebook, RU-vid and a slim few others just took over and all web creativity, competition and innovation was gone.

Yahoo missing the opportunity to buy Google is its biggest mistake.

Thanks man!

"Instagram is a pokedex for girls. " Asmongold 2024

My dad bought the family a PC back in 1995 and it cost him nearly 2k. 10 years later I remember getting one for 200$. Prices really came down and made getting online so affordable.

Google included picture search. That was basically the sole reason I used it over altavista back then. I remember it clearly. When they included video search it was completly over for the competition.

That lil bit where Yahoo came back and beat google briefly felt like the old hero in an anime giving it his all one last time before dying

The most shocking part to me was that the *videos was pretty much always bigger than the hub

ah memories of better times I miss the old web

Yahoo stayed so big for so long, not because it was a search engine (Google was always WAY better), but because Yahoo had email and a news site. When gmail started gaining traction and people started mass swapping over in like 2009-2010, and the public started really embracing the internet at large and going to dedicated news sites (or using their Facebook feeds for news) instead of watching news channels on TV, then Yahoo fell off hard.

I'm actually surprised netflix didn't do better during covid

The graph reffers to visits in each website under the main domain. It's normal that Google or RU-vid have more visits, and even more with shorts now in YT, because the retention in each site address is lower and then you click on another one to watch another video. Amazon, Netflix or Twitch have less 'clicks' but more time retention.

This is by monthly visits, so the problem with charts like this is a lot of people had websites like AOL, Yahoo, MSN, etc as their homepage, so every time they loaded up the browser, I would load those pages.

Your forgetting in 2003 yahoo was one of the main email services people used gmail wasn't available to everyone yet. Gmail was still sign up by invite in 2004.

When I was younger, I decorated a Christmas tree one year with AOL cd's. I used alcohol to remove the print from the one side.

In the early 2000s I was fixing peoples browsers all the time especially mamaws. You nailed it with the coming back to a PC and the search bars being half way down the screen 😂

All these websites remind me of how thankful I am that adblockers were invented.

As soon as Facebook opened up to everyone, not just college kids, it destroyed Myspace.

*videos and *hamster are deleting old vids, feels bad man... The worst part is like the vids were only uploaded there and there's no other copy hosted elsewhere. Really makes you think if its on the internet, is it really there forever?

yandex back in the day was _dangerous._ In like an Omeagle kind of way. you could go from a school research project to trauma town super quick

Amazon isn't small it just isn't social media or a search engine being visited dozens of times per day.

Apparently 1.5 million people still pay for Aol services today 😂

1:51 Lycos was a search engine.

Weird to say but Gen Z and younger will never experience the rise of the Internet. Changed our lives permanently.

Google bar is in every smartphone from factory. Thats why its so dominant.

Holy shit. Excite and Altavista used to be my go to search engines. Haven’t heard these names in ages.

Every Amazon user gives them money while most of google and youtube users don't pay anything.

i was born in 1996 and started playing on PC in like 2004. never thought so many people had internet before i was even born. thats pretty crazy to think about xD

My dad still has an aol account he barely uses ever, but he’s 55 so it makes a little sense, he also has a new iPhone and screens on every boat and truck he owns

so many stories from uncle Zack

Lycos was a search engine. They used to have TV ads with a dog named Lycos fetching things like you'd fetch search results.

It's weird growing up as a kid when the internet took off and remembering all this.

google is so skewed because a majority of people use chrome as their main browser and every time someone opens a new tab on chrome it defaults to opening google's website which counts towards the visit count

Dude, I'm so old i remember getting AOL 3.5" floppy disks in the mail bro. And that's what I used to install AOL back in 1996.

All school computers and those at home for that matter, that had Google as start page also gives alot extra

Google video and Halo 2 montages were so great! The IT department at my high school never ended up blocking Google video so I was able to watch montages there on the computers since my family still had dial-up 😅

Love the music in this one...

Amazon is a retailer so it's not going to have the amount of visits as searc and social media.

Chicken or Egg, how much does social media create mental health issues or does mental health issues project into social media?

Damn I thought this was a replay from when you did it last year. I still have a Yahoo email from 2000 as my main email.

Ah, this video again, would've been nice to see one that's up to April 2024.

Air mosaic was the browser and metacrawler the search engine my friend..

The real ones remember Ask Jeeves

I didnt have internet connection but i had a now ancient gateway desktop, and box monitor. Well it had an Aol shortcut pre installed. I dont know where it came from other than either the os or any of the game discs i had like quake 3 arena

I wonder if application usages is also included in the stat. Feels like Facebook and Twitter should be even higher then this.

AOL. Remember AOL Instant Messenger?

2007 truly was the beginning of the end for all of humanity

A big reason for yahoo being so big for so long was games.. Their multiplayer pool, hearts, spades, etc etc had 10s of 1000s of people refreshing the pages constantly..

I remember they had a phone book thing for websites back on 91

Yandex being one of the most popular websites ever is really amazing

U gotta respect Yahoo for fighting tooth and nail to still be surviving.For the record the Internet is dead compared to what it was in the wild west days

Something special about the old internet, maybe its just the nostalgia. In terms of popularity, older people use the internet now is definitely a factor. In 2003 my mom never used the computer and would always ask what I was even doing on the computer. Now she uses youtube via a smart tv, has an ipad, etc. Things like phones and tablets meant a lot of 'normies' have access to the internet without even using a traditional pc.

Remember all of those free Internet discs that came in the mail for 4 free hours of AoL or JUNO 😂😂😂. We used to frisbee those things at each other until they shattered into pieces 😂

When you use Wikipedia to read about the Bible you’ll see a lot of “this is not believed to be historical by most current scholars,” regarding things like the authorship of books, etc. What the average Redditor won’t understand is that this doesn’t mean anything. Bible scholarship (and a lot of historical scholarship in general) has been taken over by “critical theorists” and form critics (formally known as “higher critics.” Traditional, fact-based historical critique of the Bible and other texts is boring because there’s a limited set of evidence for things like, say, the crucifixion, and little to no room for hot new takes and “bombshell” revelations that sell books. So modern Bible scholars mostly employ “form criticism” and try to reach conclusions based on textual analysis that is mostly speculative. For example, “Paul used some words in Colossians that he didn’t use in Romans, ergo Paul didn’t write Colossians.” Tl;dr: Wikipedia convinced millions of fedora guys that they’d “debunked” the Bible because other fedora guys edit Wikipedia.

“Myspace having html is why there’s so many female web developers now” Damn bro, blew my mind

We had a dedicated isp at the house but my dad would still use the free month of AOL every once in a while.

AOL was not dethroned for its use as an internet service provider though, just no one used its search engine after 2001

Kinda sad that yahoo went downhill wonder why...this was fun nostalgia

We used AoL cds as coasters, and at work, we collected big stacks and then played baseball with him. They exploded spectacularly if you got in a good hit. I think the field behind the place I used to work at the time still has the shards lying around.

Lol I was about to mention Ask Jeeves and then he brought it up. That used to be my primary search engine 😂

Amazon is probably comparatively small, because people only go there to buy stuff. As opposed to sites like RU-vid, Google or Facebook that are visited for daily needs or habits. I don't visit Amazon nearly as much as RU-vid or Google, and I'm sure this is true for many other people too.

The reason for Yahoo's continued growth (compared to other websites) is probably due, at least in part, to Japan still using it as a hub for news and other stuff. It really popped off in Japan in the early 2000s and remained relevant ever since.

Amazon seems small. But a bunch of these other sites run on Amazon.

When I was in highschool they demanded that projects would be sent to the professor using a Yahoo mail only

Bruh i feel old i remember bring like a kid making a geocities dragonball website

Google acts like it’s more than it is. It’s a search engine. Big deal.

As someone who is 36 years old, this is basically my childhood and adult life

Starting to make sense why internet services are becoming so greedy

Wow W on the dark mirror statement man

You know what didn't make it onto this graph? Bing

Who remembers during mid 90s to early 2000s when Amazon was a Book retailer and started doing music and movies too. I remember when they made the swap from only offering books and electronics to start selling other products and everyone thought it was the dumbest idea on the planet. Man how things have changed.

2:10 my Dad didn't want us using any non Microsoft products or programs so I never used Google until high school

I probably had 50+ AOL free trial CD back in the day. Back when the internet was new and the magazines were still popular and just about every one of them came with one, lol.

no Tik Tok so I assume the website through smartphones didn't count. I'd say the number of Facebook, Twiter/X, IG, RU-vid should be a lot more than what it shows.

I met my wife and now ex wife through a yahoo message board and then they shut down the boards and we moved to messenger. So because of Yahoo I met my wife who was 1200 miles from me and then a year later I moved to live with her and stuff. Crazy shit

I wonder if the fact that people use the amazon app vs the website drastically lowers those numbers? I kinda though amazon was gonna be way higher, way sooner.

There's a lot of countries without proper Amazon with fast deliveries and nearby fullfillment centers. I live in Finland and I sometimes buy stuff off German Amazon, but delivery takes over a week and it's not a customer friendly experience if you need to do returns or whatever. Website isn't available in Finnish, and it's so janky they'll send you emails and messages in German even if you only ever use English.

You can basically see the internet die in 2007-2008. If he stops talking long enough to see it anyway.

20 years of figuring out what the internet is good for untill you have bandwidth.

It’s so cool as a younger person to see what people older than me were in to, love the videos🖤

Holy crap haven't heard of Lycos for like 20 years already.

I remember edgily using AOL CD's as coasters. They're terrible coasters don't absorb moisture and get sticky from the water.

Amazon is not that big because a lot of countries still favor their regional online shopping sites that will probably have better local delivery infrastructure, purely digital sites like Google, RU-vid or social media have a better shot at becoming global hits.

There's also the incremental speed increases on home internet service isps went from 56k Modems to residential fibre optic

lol, by the end of it it's all just search engines, social media, and porn. There's a single education website and a single commerce website.

Bro, my dad still uses AOL to this day lmao. Still has not upgraded.

where i live the 90s internet was really bad,, i used dial up to play final fantasy 11,, finally got high speed internet in 2010

I think it's impressive how Amazon is the only company on that list offering physical products as opposed to all the other ones (not sure about baidu, or the russian ones). Ebay did amazing in that regard as well. I think it being physical products they were offering as well and it wasn't completely global may have played a part in why it didn't exceed over the other companies. Not too sure though I'm just a stoner enjoying a video that wanted to comment =p

The Internet didn't ruin the world, social media did.

Google is horrible now and I hate what they did with youtube :/

Any of those sites post 2015 that have good apps aren't the actual net user data, its web traffic on their domain, which excludes the app.

He should do more of these

Where is TikTok?

18:58 The only thing about this video that matters.

Yahoo popping off in the 2009 I think it's when Yahoo FAQ funny stuff started happening.

Does this video track app usage? I would imagine around 2015-2018 is the blow up of smartphone and all big tech companies making a smart phone application. This would explain why app like Amazon such are so low because people rather use the app then type the website.

Totally First Snoogins