Most Popular Websites 1995 - 2023

[@DataIsBeautifulOfficial]

1998: Yahoo refused to buy Google for $1 Million 2002: Yahoo refused to buy Google for $5 Billion 2017: Yahoo sold to Verizon for $4.4 Billion 2023: Google market capitalization is $1.28 Trillion

[@nerthus7]

How the turntables

[@cOuldeyegd]

In m balls

[@bernard1799]

To be fair, if Yahoo bought Google...with their management? Google would not be worth 1.28 trillion lol.

[@arsturbuther]

Excite also turned down the chance to buy Google, as they didn't want Google's search algorithms to replace their own.

[@DataIsBeautifulOfficial]

@@arsturbuther I read something similar about Altavista and Google

[@loboeningles4641]

Imagine living in the world where people would say “Just Yahoo It”

[@PAINNN666]

Especially in Russia). Yahooit sounds vulgar) I don't know how translate even but hooi is a dick. And bt the way in Japan probably say something like that because even in 10s it most popural search engine there.

[@serhafiye7046]

Better than just google it

[@theartistlostboy]

Or imagine say “just ask Jeeves…”

[@skurinski]

google search is trash

[@EyeOfThe_God]

Just Bing it

[@UncleRicoOSU]

I still remember the day my high school librarian told me about Google back when it first launched. It was so unique because unlike every other site that was flooded with noise (text, photos, pop ups) it was so clean and straight forward.

[@desktopdesign7196]

@AndyWitmyer still arguably better then the messy internet portal sites from back then

[@mriswith88]

I think the creator said that they wanted Google to be as clean as humanly possible to speed up search times and allow it to give you more, better results. And it worked.

[@boopsbucket]

I rememeber taking notes and asking the librarian if she could please repeat herself so I could jot down ““

[@iwatchwithnoads7480]

​@AndyWitmyerif you are not using adblocks, you're living life wrong

[@kenw2225]

I don't understand it. Some people even see ads on KZbin. Like, just watch cable then . Ads don't work on me, but they must work on the people who allow themselves to watch them

[@HazMat1012]

I thought Amazon and Netflix overall would have been higher on the list in the last decade and was really surprised they didn't make a bigger jump in 2020

[@TheChristianImperialist]

I can't tell if this data uses "app usage" or is just website hits. Very few people log onto Netflix, but have it as a streaming service from their smart TVs.

[@לאונידאוסטרובסקי-ט3י]

Many mistakes. Wikipedia did not appear in top 10 until 2007. KZbin also appears too early. Netflix made it in 2023 and so Pornhub and XVideos.

[@laur83]

it must just be sites visited. because those platforms have apps that people are probably using instead of the site

[@matthewhaddock6458]

It's just website hits. Instagram is likely bigger than Facebook now, but people use the App. TikTok is similar and doesn't even get a mention. Netflix also uses a lot more data per visit than any of the others (other than KZbin) and singlehandedly are the biggest consumer of internet bandwidth around the world... and by a lot.

[@jattikuukunen]

Even if people visit the website, they probably have the trackers blocked that collect this data. Unless they're someone who uses twitter or ticktock.

[@jeffrowisdabest]

I remember when Yahoo was the dominant force, and the idea of anyone taking them over seemed impossible. The lesson: In business, nothing lasts forever.

[@mikedeek]

Having a hard time thinking someone taking google down

[@rafamajcherczyk1218]

@@mikedeek Actually, they just took a big hit. OpenAI with Microsoft might shake up the scene and Google is on a backfoot. Next gen search engines supported by intelligent chat feature seem to be the future and war has just started.

[@Zaro2008]

Yeah especially with google onwning so many other companies line gmail, google maps, youtube, google images, google translate, android and many more

[@lipsterman1]

@@mikedeek I don't use google anymore. Duckduckgo.

[@MrRSlavchev]

@@Zaro2008 those are not companies, those are their own products. They acquired only Android from the listed.

[@The7Reaper]

Crazy that Google, KZbin and Facebook have been the three dominant forces of the internet for a decade now

[@Puschit1]

It says volumes about humans that Wikipedia isn't on top

[@mobidiksremix]

@@Puschit1 what would it mean about humans if the wiki was on top lol?

[@Puschit1]

@@mobidiksremix If I have to explain that to you, then you are part of the problem.

[@mobidiksremix]

@@Puschit1 well, most of the times you go to wikipedia to find the explanation or enlightenment, so maybe I'm not the problem, when I seek those things. Maybe there isn't a problem in that at all, you know?

[@saintsaens21]

@@Puschit1 Ha ha ha

[@gulfmen86]

half of those google visits were from me typing words out that I dont know how to spell

[@rubber924]

Nah, just the fact that when I open NY web browser or open a new tab, it goes straight to Google.

@@rubber924 MY GOES TO BING

[@ericamcrae1610]

omg you do that too?

[@liquidvicinity]

omfg so relatable

[@rx7tool]

😂😂

[@Tatsunami_Studios]

Being born in 91 and seeing some of this literally happening before my eyes but not “seeing the big picture” until seeing this video is crazy. I remember when MySpace was HUGE

[@DesertSessions93]

Myspace was the best

[@davidmartini7764]

born in 97 and watching this showed me I missed MySpace by a year. Right when I started using the internet is around the time it was fading away. Wish I was around myspace times!

[@Tatsunami_Studios]

@@davidmartini7764 it was such a cool experience. A lot of young people learned what html was because you could customize your profile changing or adding html. It was super cool. Nowadays there’s nothing like it. Everything is locked down. The most you can do today is just upload pics and change statuses.

[@Kaede-Sasaki]

​ @DesertSessions93 Born too late. Did MySpace have professional level videos like KZbin does today (eg economics explained, history of the universe, and histocrat)?

[@_Just_Another_Guy]

​@@Kaede-Sasaki No, because video sharing wasn't commonplace back then on the internet like it is today. And mostly everyone was still on either dial-up or broadband connection (compared to fiber optic network today). This meant that any files you uploaded online was kinda limited by the number of bytes (the highest was 1 GB during those times). Thus, downloading large files like a few songs used to take literal HOURS to complete. So if you wanted to upload/download a whole video, it'd take even more than that. But on another topic, MySpace was the Facebook before Facebook. And it had far greater range of customizability too: you can set your own webpage background, customize fonts, and even use GIFs on it. It's like if the social aspect of Facebook and customizability of Tumblr had a child, it would've been MySpace.

[@eueuueuee1]

I loved the addition of the important facts throughout the timeline, man! As always, great work!!

[@DataIsBeautifulOfficial]

Glad to hear it!

[@SwagMaster824]

What surprises me the most is the amount of people going on Yahoo even in the late 2000’s early 2010’s. I didn’t even know that website was still being massively used that way.

[@AngryBlueCrayon]

If memory serves, the website came up when you logged into Yahoo Messenger unless you turned it off.

[@allaricdeschain]

Default Homepages count for a lot, for AOL, MSN, and Yahoo. Google gets a large majority of those visits from the default new tab page being google as well. Id be curious to see this side by side with unique monthly visits as well.

[@NickWrightDataYT]

Got my still-active Yahoo email in the early 2000's. Still check it every so often, but it has been auto-forwarding to my Gmail for probably over a decade now

[@berendharmsen]

I thought the same thing; where did that second wind come from? I don't remember ever reading anything about 'the great Yahoo recovery' back then.

[@NickWrightDataYT]

@@berendharmsen I'm going to guess that it was Yahoo throwing everything and everyone at the wall to see what stuck, but ultimately failing to achieve long-term growth enough to beat Google.

[@rex-racer]

AOL… “Welcome! You’ve got mail!” and a CD-ROM install disk in the mail every other week. Ah yes, the good old dial-up modem days. I can still hear the sounds!

[@Billinois78]

lol I heard A Christmas Story narrator voice as a I read that.

[@MikeBarbarossa]

Also, no ecommerce and checkouts back then. If you wanted to market on the internet, you posted an ad with a 1-800 no. to call

[@melroze]

Don't forget about Prodigy.

[@mrodg88]

Hi, I'd like to cancel from my free month of AOL please. Wait, you'll give me another month free? And keep doing it every time I cancel for like 3 years? LOL

[@BinalYT]

My favourite thing about AOL was it had a parental timer lock for browsing which was easily bypassed by downloading firefox and never having to deal with their awful browser again whilst my mum still thought she was limiting my internet usage as "You have to sign in for the internet to work". We were both happy

[@tixie88]

The pornsites and social media rising up to the top ten in our current time says a lot about us.

[@clamh84]

I don’t know, I think it’s always been that way. When cameras became popular people started taking nude pictures pretty much straight away. We as a species are hardwired to be interested in s*x.

[@lipfried]

Really, pseudo-philosophical smartass? What does it tell us?

[@ktulu3767]

Not really man, never heard of playboy? Hustler? Penthouse? Just because people didn't use the internet for sexual gratification doesn't mean they didn't seek it. Plus, strip clubs are going out of business dude. Man, use some logic and reasoning, some critical thinking mixed in with that. Holy shit

[@tixie88]

@ktulu3767 Children and teenagers didn't have access to those magazines unless someone gave one to them or they found one somewhere, as you would have to physically walk into a shop and buy them. I get your point about us always wanting to look at people naked or having sex, I agree with that. I just think the statistics now also include a lot of people not mature enough to have 24/7 access.

[@asgard5281]

That’s going to die down in the future. Nothing lasts forever

[@nattobaby]

japan is singlehandedly still keeping yahoo alive

[@berendharmsen]

Is that what it is? I was genuinely mystified by that Yahoo surge when I remember it as just a slow, steady decline. Is Yahoo literally 'big in Japan'?

[@elena6516]

please elaborate on this connection

[@sigfigronath]

why is it big in japan

[@marquee_tags]

@@sigfigronath Japan can be weird like that. I don't want to say technophobic - because if anything Japan's the first to embrace new technology - but once something is "established" they tend to stick with it. Smartphones are another modern example. In the early 00s Japanese phones seemed futuristic but then they just kind of.. stayed there, and 10 years later everyone still used a flip phone with those clunky custom-built apps. Apple *eventually* came to dominate the market, but very late. If iPhones somehow go to shit, Japan will probably be the last to abandon them, too :)

[@Jeff.jeff36]

Apple , samsung copy nokia

[@rufuspipemos]

AOL was bigger than Google, Amazon, Ebay and Yahoo combined at the end of 2000, according to this video. For those not there at the time it is hard to describe its dominance. There is nothing like it now. No one thought they would ever be knocked off their perch since they had been the most visited site every month for the previous 6 years.

[@bustorobusto6316]

As a little kid at that time I thought aol was the internet. I thought they were one in the same

[@ANM21985]

I think you are wrong buddy, im surprised your messaged got hearted. In december 2000 AOL reached around 800,000,000 monthly visits. by the end of this video google has in excess of 85,650,000,000 monthly visits. AOL reached 9 digits, google reached 11 digits. So how was AOL bigger than google, amazon, ebay and yahoo combined??

[@MurderElite]

@@ANM21985 well when you consider the connectiveness of the world in relation to the internet at the time of AOL's dominance you can understand. Internet wasn't something everyone had access to at the time and if you did have it you used a dial up network like AOL to access it. Now imagine if the internet was as accessible then as it is now, AOL would most certainly had been bigger and more dominant than Google, yahoo, eBay and all the others. The key thing here is Google created a device that people needed (smart phones) and leveraged their dominance through it and not to mention its acquisition of KZbin, which as we know is the world's 2nd biggest search engine. AOL on the other hand ventured off and merged with a T.V Network Time Warner, it should have instead ventured more into the what it was known for THE INTERNET and had it done that and leverage other key internet attractions it would still be dominant. Google became what AOL once was the "Gateway" to the internet and thus Google was able to influence how people interacted on the net, it became the key place to begin once online just as AOL once was.

[@rufuspipemos]

@@ANM21985 , incorrect. I am looking at it right now for Dec 2000. You can do the same. Google is not even on the list! Not sure where you got your info. Amazon is 102M, EBay 158M, Yahoo 508M and Google is zero, so AOL was bigger than all four at the end of 2000. Where did I say "at the end of the video"? I said at the end of 2000. The reason I got "hearted" is because my observation is correct. I can't help it if you read it completely different than I wrote it.

[@can72287]

He means culturally and he’s right. For those of us that was there…the dial up days…AOL was everything. It was basically a big FB tho in some ways….the unifying platform; the one place everyone was on regardless of age. The first place you went on the internet. AIM is fB messanger. . That’s while a FB or a clone of Facebook will always exist; because it always has.

[@chrissym8]

I kept expecting to see a huge increase in Amazon traffic during 2020 🤔

[@johannacoreas3968]

Same. And Netflix.

[@ohno7582]

Instead it was p*rn that got the bumps

[@deltasemple383]

My guess is it’s only browser visits and not from the app

[@TheBigGangBang]

@@deltasemple383no way because most people use their app search bar for google. People aren’t literally still opening up a browser and typing in google lol

[@yamaFC]

There was, and You did, Its just not as common as youtube or google IMO. Entertainment or "what you're looking for" is usually on google/youtube. Agreed?

[@hustledude]

Sad and frightening how much one company has control over what data we’re exposed to and affect our thought processes so much

[@pitotzen2387]

@@napalmsfsays the nihilistic, empty and mindless drone

[@hustledude]

@@pitotzen2387says the npc bot

[@AdoreYouInAshXI]

@@pitotzen2387if you’re simping for Google then you’re projecting hard by saying that.

[@AlleineDragonfyre]

@@pitotzen2387 who hurt you?

[@Dalamain]

"don't be evil" lol

[@natalieeuley1734]

Only Yahoo stayed consistently on the board start to finish. What a fighter

[@v12tommy]

It is even more impressive when you figure that Google has owned KZbin since 2006, so you could combine the top 2 if we are looking at companies and their share of the market.

[@VORASTRA]

Then you need to combine Facebook and Instagram as well

[@Mercenary-1914]

@@VORASTRA You can combine Facebook and Instagram and it still has less site visits per month than JUST KZbin.

[@TheObsesedAnimeFreaks]

And that is why google is being broken up.

[@steamboat333]

Data IS beautiful! You’ve done a wonderful job visualizing it. Thank you.

[@delightinmydays3080]

This is actually a pretty interesting timeline to see. I still have my AOL account that I created back in the 90s. Even though I do have Google email my AOL is my primary one that I still put on applications or what not as the best way to email me even to this day.

[@smithwordfort9756]

Frankly it's great to have made a statistical video on the different websites that have marked the history of the internet thank you to you.👏👏👏👏

[@DataIsBeautifulOfficial]

Glad it was helpful!

[@MetricZero]

You know, it's crazy. I've left sort of time capsules for myself in the form of saved files going all the way back to my very first computer back in 2002. Before that, I had n64 and ps1, and my mom had a NES. It's insane to think about where we are today, and where we'll be in just 5, 10, or even 20 years. The world is going to be unrecognizable.

[@DataIsBeautifulOfficial]

True

[@johnnycarter2283]

That's when sooner or later the mark of the beast will make an appearance

[@MetricZero]

@@johnnycarter2283 Until then I'll just keep trying to help people and do the best I can.

[@JoyofBooking]

I haven't purchased a new gaming console since the PS3, eventually you just stop buying the upgrades and enjoy what you have

[@ChasOnErie]

My computers go back to 1987 … !!

[@hectort5239]

This timelines are excellent! Suggestion to the channel’s development team: sometimes you get a bit lost in the relative movement of the bars, when some are growing slower than others and, even though they are still growing, they start to shrink. You could display another dimension of data by putting the growing numbers in blue and the falling ones in red, or put an up or down arrow beside them (I’d prefer the colors, though). Thanks

[@DataIsBeautifulOfficial]

Great suggestion!

[@edoneill6701]

I fully agree!

[@robertcasey3528]

Or maybe it's because they aren't growing as fast as others. Always a know it all in every crowd.

[@edoneill6701]

@@robertcasey3528 Seems like you are the know-it-all here, and as usual to know-it-alls you are not grasping the concept of what the comment was suggesting. Typical. The creator even thought it was a great idea because he understood. But your video charts are clearly more thought out and better produced than these, oh wait....

[@hectort5239]

@@robertcasey3528 exactly my point. My suggestion was to help improve the tool. Sorry if it bothers you…

[@moonbalancedd]

If Yahoo hasn't given up, why should I?

[@DarkAssassin2259]

It's interesting to see this information and look back at what I was doing at that time (which wasn't much because I was a kid), but kids after the internet boom will never, ever experience this phenomenon and will never understand or appreciate what it is and how it affects us everyday. They can learn about it, but to people like me who grew up with the internet and seeing things for the first time *ever* and watching it grow, adapt, and improve exponentially, it's indescribable

[@YSFmemories]

I was born in 92 and probably the last to have experienced pre internet pre computer era where kids played outside

[@GuitarFRETBOARDHACKS]

This low key hit me in the feels. Seeing Google rise, and take out MySpace, and watching all those OG websites just leave the list. Idk why that hurt LOL

[@PlaneswalkerShiba]

I feel that

[@SaschaB82]

I was genuinely rooting for MySpace for a minute there, not gonna lie.

[@SMJSmoK]

And one day, Google will be dethroned as well. It's hard to imagine now, but remember how Yahoo's position looked around 2003.

[@GuitarFRETBOARDHACKS]

@SMJSmoK I agree. Google is a pretty biased search engine actually. KZbin is also on its way out soon. Too much censorship going on. Twitch is on its way too due to censorship/sponsor stipulations. There's gonna be a big change of platforms for basically everything soon I think.

[@kiloneie]

If not for recent AI, google would die soon, because for the last several years it was the search engine of bloggers/ads. But it will die eventually anyways.

[@heene]

I got online in 1996 and remember all those old names. Loved Netscape Navigator. The sudden decline of Geocities in 1999 is interesting and they closed it 10 years later. I used that a lot and web pages were easty to create. No video sites in the 90s as was on dial-up amd everything was slow to load, but seemed normal back then.

[@VIBRONIC.]

geocities was dissolved to get rid of knowledge

[@Faith_Chi]

O I loved Geocities. Learnt basic html programming then :)

[@EstiloInAction]

Netscape is Firefox 👌

[@rsuriyop]

Oh the good ol’ days of home page building. 😁 I built mine using Geocities as well back around ‘98. Today it still exists. But I haven’t visited it in maybe close to 15 years now! 🤭

[@michaelmartin9022]

It was probably when these sites disallowed hotlinking to hosted images on message boards etc, and started to implement insane anti-warez policies, dropping the maximum allowed file size from 50mb, to 20mb, to 10mb, some eventually banned any uploadd over 1mb! And anything ending in .mp3 was blocked too, so good luck uploading your own music. Those stupid scum-vermin did it to themselves. To the point I'd have dreams about beating up the CEOs of Geocities or Fortunecity. Rot in hell scum, you did it to yourselves.

[@Lyrictheac]

Truly had no idea Amazon is such an old website.

[@golfingcub02]

Crazy how Amazon started in 1996

[@healingv1sion]

Yep. They mostly did used books. And used to accept money orders as payment! Amazing days

[@Kbxbigbro808]

1994*

[@redpine8665]

All Sears had to do was put their massive catalog online, instead chose to stick to just brick and mortar stores and allowed this used book seller to grow and grow while they sat back and did nothing.

[@Mercenary-1914]

When I saw that I Was like...Wait Amazon didnt start in 2013ish? That's when I started hearing about it.

[@chxrlii167]

My dad could've invested in it 🗿

[@Bendrix27]

I'd give anything to go back to the glory days of MySpace. It was simpler times, man.

[@shawnevans26]

Facebook back in 2007 when I got on it was much simpler.

[@rizkyadiyanto7922]

how old were you back then?

[@Bendrix27]

@@rizkyadiyanto7922 Born in 1990, so MySpace was during my early-mid teens.

[@vvvnokk8309]

I was like 5-8 in its hey day, but I remember my aunt used to go on there.

[@j.pnewcomer1069]

@@vvvnokk8309 Yeah same, but my cousin (who was about 15-18 at the time)babysat me and she'd let me pick out her theme and music for her page

[@Greenpoloboy3]

3:23 KZbin enters the scene! 😊 Late 2005 is when I first discovered KZbin and wasn't till September 2006 when I successfully made my 1st channel. Good memories... Those were the days ...

[@JoyofBooking]

You were a pioneer

[@korekapik]

The day when you can make ur channel become black , white , yellow and blue asa like as friendster.😂

[@Greenpoloboy3]

@@JoyofBooking Hey, that is cool to think that!! It really was awesome!

[@Greenpoloboy3]

@@korekapik KZbin channels were far better in those early times

[@Greenpoloboy3]

@Ariana Grande Butera I never used Myspace, but wow they was big. That was back when I played Age of Empires 2 alot.

[@danaeckel5523]

I got on the internet in 97. I had Windows 3.11, Netscape, Yahoo as my homepage, and Hotmail as my main email. I used AOL messenger to chat people people, Yahoo chat rooms to meet people. I remember visiting websites written in pure java and needed JRE installed to view them. I remember the colors, and gif animations and the internet felt more like a multi-media machine in the late 90's than it does today.

[@mike1024.]

I really appreciate the random important events reminders that pop up.

[@MikeBarbarossa]

as an absolute nobody who has had over 2 millions visits through social media and my e-commerce sites (one man operation) it's insane to see top runners in late 90's have less than 10 mil visits. The internet has grown

[@Azazel010101]

The data is beautiful, indeed 💕

[@davidv4018]

There is no data to suggest that.

[@Mdevlin0]

Again, another fascinating and somehow therapeutic presentation. I’m subscribing!

[@juliegolick]

I remember the glory days of Geocities. I thought I'd gotten into the game late and all the best websites were taken... in 1996! 🤣

[@OHHnoYOUdidntMAN]

lol, it goes to show how anything can change and there could always be something new 😳

[@at0micsheep]

Yeh I remember hosting a site with them. Cheaper Web hosting and bundled hosting with ISPs killed geocities off. There is an archive somewhere that managed to salvage about 100000 sites from the old days

[@Blackadder75]

90s internet was so good (if you were among the lucky few with fast broadband, which my university had) dial-up was not fun.

[@can72287]

Right. Good old fashioned web pages. No streaming audio, video, social media apps (at least modern ones)….YIM, AIM, Chatrooms, message boards. Candystand. Fun times !

[@person.X.]

A good friend of mine got rich from working for Geocities around the turn of the century. He has never had to work since!

[@NiIog]

I’m beyond astonished in wonder of how you manage to not only find and make these visualizations but correct them. Your contributions are fabulous, keep going dude!

[@DataIsBeautifulOfficial]

Wow, thank you!

[@NiIog]

@@DataIsBeautifulOfficial No problem! And, out of curiosity, what do you have planned in mind next?

[@DataIsBeautifulOfficial]

Not sure yet, I have several in my queue. Personally, I want to finish "operating systems starting 1979". This one was in works since 2019 lol.

[@NiIog]

@@DataIsBeautifulOfficial Ooh, sounds interesting! I’m already excited just hearing about it!

[@kenmolinaro]

Pretty sure it involves counting lots and lots of mouse clicks.

[@Zogun_85]

The amount of ASK Toolbars I've had to uninstall from customers computers while working as tech support explains how they could stick to the top 10 for so long...

[@chrisg7731]

Ask, AOL, and MSN all stayed way too long on this list.

[@ebridgewater]

I'll just say it: This background tune is lit.

[@berendharmsen]

It's one of the things that make click on these videos. Not the main thing, but definitely one of them. I find it genuinely odd that it's so satisfying, because the loop isn't all that long, but somehow you just keeping going along with the next wave, and the next one.

[@DanielaBodoh]

The song is fire. It's called "Je noublierais jamais" (excuse my French, literally, spelling might not be perfect lol)

[@orereo2328]

@@DanielaBodoh Je n'oublierai jamiais (meaning 'I will never forget'

[@MetalRufo]

Kinda hater comment but... I'm so glad Tik Tok is not in there xD

[@rufusgreenleaf2466]

Don't worry i agree, Tik Tok is brainwashing people into sociopaths. It has become a desperation for content over intelligence or wellbeing. Kids growing up want to be Tik Tok stars because it's where the money is, wanting to drop out of school and give up education for fame and money but then fail to make any moral or intellectual decisions in life. Everything suddenly becomes a desperation for attention.

[@MetalRufo]

@@rufusgreenleaf2466 You're absolutely right, I think the same, I just don't agree with the "suddenly", because this has been coming for a long time since the original use of social networks mutated into this race for attention, this pandemical need for approval every 30 seconds, from anyone, in any way available... the only upside is that it has become easier to spot the people who are not worthy of our time.

[@BluePencily]

lets GO we Will never see tiktok again

[@idkwhattodo8652]

Same tiktok in my opinion SUCKS

[@thedooper]

Tiktok is an app, people rarely visit the website, smh

[@jaycycling497]

I admire how Yahoo kept on catching up to the top several times 😃

[@DataIsBeautifulOfficial]

Classic

[@AlleineDragonfyre]

Google's monopolization needs to be dealt with. Excellent work. Thank you, fellow human!

[@micheleh3851]

Microsoft launched a competing search engine called Bing. Several years later and it just can't deliver the results that Google can. If I tried Bing first I always ended up having to go to Google anyway because Bing's results are so wimpy.

[@danielm3192]

Got my first email address in college in the fall of 1994, and it was the first time I browsed the "world wide web" which was brand new to me and pretty awesome. I used AOL constantly after college from 1997-2007.

[@darrenj.griffiths9507]

Yahoo was extremely popular because of the chat rooms, like MSN for the messenger. I miss those days 😞

[@GamingTranceSeer]

I remember playing yahoo games like Chinese checkers with a chat room meeting people from around the world. Now it's gone.

[@darrenj.griffiths9507]

I know right. Nostalgic memories. Though it was very, very addictive and dangerous. I used to meet loads of girls from those chat rooms 😄

[@OzzyTheGiant]

Now social media has replaced all those chat rooms and the social games are pretty much mobile apps now

[@darrenj.griffiths9507]

Yeah I know but it will never be the same as it was back then. It was just..more enjoyable whereas today we act like social media is a necessity

[@malcorub]

I preferred Yahoo over Google probably until about 2010.

[@yulewave1]

Crazy that AOL hung in there until mid 2014. Didn't know anybody had been to that site in nearly a decade at that point

[@ninja.saywhat]

me too lol, i thought they were pretty much defunct by mid 2000s.

[@jul1440]

Turns out the internet is _not_ 90% porno.

[@TheBoneVampire]

But! Porno is more popular than Netflix 😂😂😂

[@alexanderrau6356]

Just because there is no app... (;

@@TheBoneVampire AND BING SEARCH LOL

[@vermilisix]

At least not by number of visits.

[@mercurydylan899]

What do you think is helping drive Google’s numbers?

[@doggo2995]

Thank you so much for coming back after taking a break for a few years. Couple things: It seems like things become really unstable after 2020 for websites. Nobody is really increasing indefinitely anymore they are more so increasing, then decreasing, then increasing back and forth. Interesting. I wonder why that is? Then by 2022 it seems like most websites are in a slow decrease. It'll be interesting to see how the A.I boom of 2023 will start affecting this. I expect to see Bing increase dramatically if their new A.I browser proves to be better than Googles.

[@DataIsBeautifulOfficial]

Thanks! I hope someone will give Google a fight, but after watching Microsoft presentation on its upcoming ChatGPT integration with Bing, meh..

[@doggo2995]

@@DataIsBeautifulOfficial you weren't impressed? I was really impressed. Compared to Googles presentation I think they knocked it outta the park while Googles fell super flat.

[@marquee_tags]

I think it's just because *websites* as a product matured some time ago, and are probably in decline now. For a lot of people these days, opening a web browser is synonymous with Google search and that's pretty much it.

[@alternateunreleasedshellac505]

People have been saying for years and decades that A.I will take over technology, but it is yet to happen.

[@belstar1128]

The biggest websites are messing up they make bad changes and ban people randomly. they have been on top for so long they are forgetting the things that made them successful. i think there will be a big change in the near future.

[@leokimvideo]

You can see clearly when the heyday of KZbin was Vs today. The CEO from 2014 sadly killed the site thank God she's now gone. KZbin has made it so difficult for creators now, so many hoops to jump through to be 'KZbin Friendly'😥

[@kratos223]

gnight sista

[@ivankawnartist]

Ah, yes. Private company operating within the free market of capitalism... You must be a communist to complain about that.

[@DataIsBeautifulOfficial]

I feel you.

[@CJ_Walks]

Unfortunately it sounds like it’s going to get much worse.

[@mrBob____]

Not sure going from 17.5 billion visits to 35 billions visits counts as being killed. I think you might have got caught out with the changing scale due to Google's increase.

[@lexnight8345]

For most of the list, I was like : "There is no way the HUB is not in the top 10. "

[@AlberAlex]

Indeed, and i think they have a better algorythm than .videos, lol.

[@lexnight8345]

@@AlberAlex For the past 5 years. ..yes

[@BrgArt]

coomer singlehandedly raising the hub.

[@ninja.saywhat]

your most visited or frequented site hmm? 😏

[@lexnight8345]

@hanjieunngfullhouse no, it's not. I'm a man of culture, I visit Pixiv. But this is also not my most visited ... KZbin is 🤣

[@Obviously-by6jp]

Social media creeping in 2000’s and onwards surely the worst thing that’s happen in my generations life time!

[@g3nj1]

I agree. It has been more detrimental to humanity that what small benefits it may have. I never use the stuff.

[@f1fan464]

9:17 ...I'm dying... facebook numbers are just... OMG

[@MrBTRDAYZ]

As someone who got their start in Computer Science and IT, WAY BACK in 1985 (!!!), I appreciate an animation like this. I started in business retail IT sales in 1985 and went into corporate IT around 1990. Those damn AOL CD mailers littering my office desk. Asynchronous dial-up! MCI Mail. Got my employer on the web in 1994-1995 (?). Public IPs all the way to the desktops and no firewall! Saw the first attempts from malware and got firewall religion QUICK. Had no future as a stock investor, because having seen so many dial-up online environments come and go, I thought the WWW was going to be another fad that came and went. BOY DID I GET THAT WRONG!!! The chart spans nearly all of my career. I've seen SO many changes. The replacement of mainframes with PCs. The network. Micro PCs from every contender duking it out. The intro of the GUI. Portable PCs, laptops, handheld organizers, smartphones. Info everywhere in the palm of your hand! It's like I jumped on a surfboard back in 1985 and caught this wave that I've been riding for decades! In this time, life has happened. Got married, had children, got divorced, got married again, had children, got divorced, bought homes, built homes, got married again (!!!). This animation goes back so far that I can't help the feelings of nostalgia. Life is good.

[@Ekam-Sat]

I wish I had your optimism. Divorce left me utterly depressed.

[@g3nj1]

You divorce way too much.

[@Xnate13X]

Been through all of this. Miss the good ole days. Old eBay, MSN messenger & old KZbin when it was simple. What's an advertisement on YT? I remember when ad's did start though. Was getting lots of World Of Warcraft ad's, haha

[@ninja.saywhat]

it's amazing how yahoo still managed to make a comeback to the top at the end of the decade 2000s only to be toppled the next month and at the beginning of the 2010s. rip yahoo, you're still my main email for 21 years though 😘

[@GhettoArabSage]

Google blew them away after 2010 because they invested into the smartphone market while yahoo didn't. Google paid Apple to be the default search engine on iPhones/Safari and was the default search engine on Android. The more smartphones became popular the more Google Search's usage went up.

[@buenas1236]

It's fascinating that they are still on the list though. I didn't even know they still existed

[@filledwithvariousknowledge2747]

It somehow though made a weak pathetic come back at the end of 2019 for a little bit if you saw

[@emperormouse5487]

I think people are forgetting about Default Homepages- which are single handedly keeping sites like MSN and Yahoo on this list. I have, in recent memory, opened a homepage to both those sites (must have been a public computer or my parents or something). Now regarding the porn sites- I am frankly surprised they didn’t make the top 10 until the last few years. It’s kind of insane when you think about how much of it there is. Is the industry really that big? Or is it the same 100 stars with their 100 videos being pushed throughout? I’m gonna go do some research….

[@JoyofBooking]

I find it hard to believe *ornhub isn't at the top, I call shenanigoats

[@ThuhElement]

Google being a default search is a big help for Google also.

[@deniskhafizov6827]

Porn was always a huge part of the Internet, but now it's... uhm.. oligopolized as never before. And the most remarkable thing here is that both *videos and *ornhub thrive in a country that had long before signed the Convention for the Suppression of the Circulation of and Traffic in Obscene Publications. Who cares for the international law when you have profits?

[@GhettoArabSage]

@David Johnson specifically during the smartphone era. First iPhone was around 2006/7 and Androids were a year later. They didn't start to blast off until around 2010 when everyone started to have one. Google paid Apple lots of money to be the default search engine in safari and they pretty much monopolized their own ecosystem with Google Search on Android. Yahoo was as big as Google (even bigger) pre-2010 because during that period it was almost exclusively computer- based usage. Once smartphones hit Google took over. Yahoo didn't develop for smartphones and got boxed out.

[@ThuhElement]

@@GhettoArabSage wow, good info

[@realpixilicious]

This is really fascinating stuff and great work pulling this together. It will be cool to see this in 2030 and beyond!

[@thecrazyfarmboy]

I was a kid when having a computer with internet started to become a standard thing to have in homes, and watching that scale grow from 2B to 5B with that music playing was kindof intense. Very cool, well done Edit: then it ends up going all the way past 80 billion. Insane

[@CalvinHikes]

2006 was Peak internet. Myspace dominated the social world, Amazon was selling books, Yahoo still had a Fighting Chance.

[@stpaulimdog]

My biggest surprise was when Yahoo made that one comeback.

[@juanmico4085]

Altavista, WebCrawler, Lycos, Excite... I had completely forgotten all those names. What a trip to my 20s.

[@TheC3lso]

Glad you're back!

[@deepakmt92]

Yahoo remains in the top 10 for nearly 3 decades 😮

[@OHAR2]

Anyone else find this video to be incredibly relaxing to watch?

[@bob456fk6]

This is an exciting data review! Thank you. 🙂 I remember those names clear back to 1996.

[@pjacobsen1000]

I first got on the internet summer '93 or '94. It was in the first 'internet cafe' in my city. I wasn't sure what the internet was for, and I definitely didn't know what I was doing, but I still remember that day. I think I paid US$3 for one hour.

[@DataIsBeautifulOfficial]

Wow super early years of the Internet.

[@nerdy8644]

That’s cheap

[@Hawkfeet]

2002 for me Internet credit was on cards

[@RWRogers]

Crazy to think that Yahoo is far more dominant and everlasting than most of us give it credit for. Longevity is something to respect, especially today when programs, songs, fads, games, etc seem old and dated within months after release. I guess it’s true when they say that the classics hold up! The fact I’m referring to Yahoo! As “classic” makes me realize I’m old. 😐

[@vHindenburg]

Its probably the only other search engine still largly known besides google?

[@ninja.saywhat]

i still have my yahoo mail as my main email account since 2002-2003. there were numerous times in those 20+ years that i nearly ditch it over other email services. guess from now i'm keeping it for as long as the name of the company exist. i hear that it's been acquired by verizon but they've decided to retain the name of the site due to it's legacy and popularity. so yahoo's pretty much goner. i remember back when both yahoo and google were going toe to toe during it's peak competition with each other in mid 2000s. i was using both site most of the time then eventually just completely switched to google for the rest and just retain yahoo for email. RIP Yahoo! 1994-2017

[@howardwheeler4409]

Fantasy sports is probably keeping it relevant.

[@momoftwobunnies]

​@Howard Wheeler no Japan is :) apparently, Yahoo auctions are huge there 😂

[@TheStarPollux]

Amazing video! Good job!

[@dawnlafayette2379]

i love these data stats. Please do more. More More. Love them and the music is so relaxing :-)

[@yanikg-force]

To think that at one point, Yahoo had the opportunity to buy Google but passed on it. Crazy!

[@thecensoredmuscle563]

​ they'd probably still be #1, whether they failed with google or not.

[@paigeschmidt1506]

I’m honestly surprised at how long aol stayed on this list. I graduated college in 2015 and no one I knew ever used aol. Also I would have thought Amazon would be much higher throughout this whole video. Interesting. Also also interesting that xxx sites were ahead of Amazon.

[@StartVisit]

i think this is bogus data, some things doesn’t make sense

[@sadfasdfdfasf5372]

I'd assume people might have AOL email accounts and check their nails from time to time.. back in the day pretty much everyone had an AOL email account, since there weren't many free email services out there

[@paigeschmidt1506]

@@StartVisit I could see that being a definite possibility.

[@paigeschmidt1506]

@@sadfasdfdfasf5372 very good point.

[@smyle78]

​@@sadfasdfdfasf5372only inside US had Aol that popularity.

[@ArcadeMusicTribute]

I miss Myspace so much

[@DataIsBeautifulOfficial]

Yahoo was aggressively growing at foreign markets in those years. Yet loosing the war at major markets.

[@thefinalroman]

MySpace had the background songs for pages.

[@ArcadeMusicTribute]

@@thefinalroman It had up to 4 songs in a player. It was very low quality audio, but the player looked so cool and you could customize your profile and embed additional music on your profile :3

[@aahansen82]

That was absolutely worth ten minutes of my day. I was really looking forward to seeing what happened around March through June 2020. Not as much as expected, but neat to see nonetheless.

[@El_Bueno]

Just think - Yahoo could've purchased Google for 1 million. That's right... With an M.

[@patrickw9706]

Is that true? I'll Yahoo it to be sure.

[@ginoferraro8088]

Blown away that not 1 but 2 adult sites are on this list that's crazy

[@orokusaki1243]

all the search engine results point ther, obviously 😆

[@leonkennedy3398]

Downfall of society

[@Billinois78]

I'm surprised there were only 2.

[@pooya4434]

And their users are not even adults lol

[@Billinois78]

@@leonkennedy3398 You can say "Downfall of society" about anything nowadays.

[@benusmaximus3601]

The internet in the late 90s and early 2000s must have been such a fascinating place - my earliest memory is only really from 2005…

[@StefenP]

I got my 56k modem in the ’95… it was very different a page took some seconds to load and that was normal :)

[@AlexFoster2291]

Not really. Because you pretty much had to find out about a website through the grapevine.

[@justinjennings9840]

@@StefenP Porn photos took forever to view. They would review the photo almost one pixel line at a time. It taught me the virtue of patience.

[@alfonz7863]

I started my MSN email account in 1995 with first name, underscore last initial. When I give youngsters my email, they look at me like, how the F did you get that simple email 😂

[@Rob-dp3vr]

Dial up sucked. Everything was slower. And there were so many free download gadgets that would take up all of your memory and big down your computer. Everyone would download screen savers and time out themes. I remember downloading some Bongo Buddy or something like that. A little ape that would hangout on your desktop and help you. Like an Alexa of sorts. And it would learn and get smarter. That thing became so annoying and just became such a drag on the computer. Slowed it down, made things crash and run weird.

[@Lean6]

I’m questioning the accuracy of the information. Amazon should be a lot higher, especially during pandemic years.

[@HotRod12667]

I think these are global stats.

[@jvtps765]

It's global and many countries, especially India and China have their own alternatives

[@AngryLookingBanana]

It really suprises me that yahoo is still one of the most popular websites to this day.

[@JoyofBooking]

They have 2% of the search market, I guess people are clinging to those emails

[@Smithbriart]

I find it hard to believe Amazon isn't higher.

[@filledwithvariousknowledge2747]

I actually was kinda glad to see Google dipping down towards the end as most major websites hit a peak viewing total and then decline because of bad decisions the owners make

[@thecensoredmuscle563]

People started figuring out that Google has been censoring information, history, and political stuff, not to mention spying on us.

[@Flea_ip]

~91 BILLION visits a MONTH is a number i can't seem to wrap my head around. And it's crazy that the numbers across the board just kept climbing and climbing for the most part. I guess this is just a result of Internet availability becoming a lot more widespread, and ubiquitous, all around the world. Crazy.

[@44thala49]

Remember seeing those free AOL trial CD-Rs in the checkout line at Walmart in the 90s?

[@BrightElk]

I remember back between 2004-2009 when facebook was getting really big I absolutely was not interested in it but my friends in high school were practically harassing me to start a facebook page. 😏 I got asked every single day. If they weren’t asking me to start facebook they would say things like “Did you see what Ashley posted on her facebook status?! OMG I CAN’T BELIEVE SHE SAID THAT!” 😱 It got to the point that it was constantly the centre of conversations and So I caved. If I could go back in time though I would rather set myself on fire than start a facebook page. Then there was that weird period of time where facebook and youtube and some other websites were literally dramatically rearranging their entire menus and pages like 2-3 times a year and pissing their entire user base off. You’d log in and have no idea where to log in or go. You’d have to fuck around with it for like 10-15 minutes to figure out how to use the website again. Very frustrating time to be alive.

[@Yahawadah70ad]

Lol. You guys need a break from your cellphones and connect back to nature.

[@Guigley]

First world problems

[@lisachiappetti6092]

Oh look it's yt now

[@kevenquinlan]

Super interesting. I was a Yahoo guy for a long time. Still have my original email which is going on 30 years in a couple years, lol. Think I got it in 95'. There are a lot of dehumanizing aspects to internet and especially social media- but it was nice that I didn't come in the middle of it all. I was there from before it existed= to right now. It's like American restaurants, I feel the same way, I was there through the entire evolution of it and it was a neat and interesting thing to be a part of, watching it. Suppose I'll always have a soft spot for yahoo, as I hate AOL and still have never used them. I never liked my space either. Great video.

[@DataIsBeautifulOfficial]

Thank you!

[@guilima3097]

Honestly yahoo/yahoo mail was really something. It was coupled together with yahoo messenger and yahoo answers which were both very fun.

[@PoleTooke]

Hell, I still have my MSN email

[@mrodg88]

Still have? I still use mine. It's my throw away address when I don't want to give a real one.

[@Electricalcodeclassonline]

These videos are so satisfying to watch!

[@szargos]

It would be interesting to know what happened when google had those huge boosts, like in 2010 after being overtaken by Yahoo, and in 2015 after FB started to get close.

[@DataIsBeautifulOfficial]

My guess it's mostly new emerging markets expansion.

[@5piral0ut]

Can we trust the data? Maybe companies found ways to misreport to manipulate their share prices?

[@DataIsBeautifulOfficial]

I doubt it. It’s easy to fabricate user base. Traffic is more or less verifiable by 3rd party services.

[@joeljustjazzing]

@@5piral0ut i doubt so

[@gregmccauley1687]

I'm not sure the exact reason for those 2, but people started transitioning to Chrome, Firefox and other browsers en masse which gives Google a hit every time a browser is opened.

[@ИльяБочаров-г9п]

an interesting fact is that until about 2010 Yandex was the most popular site in Russia, also in the 2000s the Rambler search engine was equally popular, but was absorbed by Yandex, after 2010, for the most part, people began to use Google for search, as the results of Yandex queries began to few people to satisfy, it was more to do with censorship. But then Yandex began to move more towards services, maps, Yandex Market, Yandex Mail, Yandex Delivery, Couriers and all the like, the search engine became not the main priority

[@siedonai3760]

если верить Яндекс Радару, то соотношение по трафику между Яндексом и Гуглом в рунете примерно 60 на 40 в пользу Яндекса, и с начала СВО разрыв только увеличивается

[@ИльяБочаров-г9п]

@@siedonai3760 это вы верно подметили, если верить яндекс радару, я работаю инженером по ремонту электроники уже больше 10 лет, через мои руки прошли уже наверное десятки тысяч чужих компьютеров, и я могу по своим наблюдениям сказать, яндекс поисковик может быть в браузере постоянной вкладклй только у тех кому он с яндекс мусором установился и сами они удалить не спочобны да и не хотят ну это пенсионеры и не очень сообразительные студеетки

[@siedonai3760]

@@ИльяБочаров-г9п а я вот работаю сео-оптимизатором и веду кучу проектов - где-то больше трафика в Яндекс, где-то в Google. Если усреднить по всем, то Яндекс преобладает примерно 60 на 40. Раньше Гугл сильно преобладал на мобилках, видимо потому что пенсионерки и не очень сообразительные студентки не умели менять поисковик по умолчанию, но с этого года Яндекс обогнал Гугл и там.

[@belstar1128]

I sometimes try to use yandex the search is not bad i get things that never show up on google. google is going down hill so i want to use other search engines. but they have a huge flaw they force you to do captchas sometimes there is no reason for a search engine to do this.

[@ИльяБочаров-г9п]

@@belstar1128 you just stumbled upon one of the moments of Yandex, for you it requires you to do captchas, if you were in Russia this would not be required, since Yandex considers you a "foreign agent" potentially dangerous as a DDoS attack

[@blindsniper35]

It's depressing it took me a minute to realize that wasn't a wild card but a censored letter. This definitely cleared up a bunch of confusion for me.

[@nigeljames6017]

Hmmm…. I got *ornhub.com but I’m still a little confused as to what *videos.com was ? Any chance of filling in the missing letters ? I’m a retired old fart who’s seen everything, but this one has beaten me !

[@warwid5419]

@@nigeljames6017 LLOLLLL

[@nigeljames6017]

@@warwid5419 So you don’t know either ???

[@warwid5419]

@@nigeljames6017 you're trolling right??

[@nigeljames6017]

@@warwid5419 Actually, no. It was a serious question. Lol.

[@PaulLapham-j4b]

This is really cool. Where did you get the monthly historical data stretching all the way back to 1996, can't find this freely anywhere?

[@userkivi6915]

While Wikipedia is above the red and orange circles it's not over

[@danielstrange9794]

Trust me, the world would be a MUCH better place without those "circles"

[@marz_mitzi]

As always, rest in peace GeoCities 1994-2009

[@pingpong3311]

In Japan, until 2019

[@ninja.saywhat]

Yahoo as well, 1994-2017. The site is still up but it's owned by a different company now and they can change it's name or completely shutdown the site any time they want.

[@pingpong3311]

@@ninja.saywhat Verizon

[@mikeokkerts9139]

Longevity. Consistency. Yahoo is the undisputed champion.

[@BrianK-zz4fk]

cause everyone i know has yahoo email addresses

[@_NotGin]

The way that Google completely engulfed Yahoo and left it a mere shadow of what it once used to be is insane. Google is a mammoth.

[@suoquainen]

I had a blogspot from 2007 until 2009. In 2009 i had a crazy amount of 8000 to 12000 people coming daily to my site. Ironically this was the opposite of what i wanted, since there was no legal content and at the end this high amount of traffic caused my site getting closed...maybe better that it happened just like that. .)

[@KingFahtah]

o_O

[@suoquainen]

@Ariana Grande Butera I dunno. I closed my blog 2010-2011 and never came back. It's a closed chapter for me. Instead being on one or two sites i'm now everywhere, but like with KZbin nobody knows anything and i enjoy it. Because i never wanted fame, i only wanted to make lesser known things i like getting famous. :)

[@suoquainen]

@@heart_break1 It's easy to say that afterwards. Of course i didn't knew that it was exclusive at that time and found out about many other sites just because finding my uploaded stuff there.

[@NickWrightDataYT]

Reddit making its appearance at the end and Instagram about to overtake Twitter is just...*chef kiss*

[@Kbxbigbro808]

Ah yes Reddit one of the worst websites to grace the internet

[@NickWrightDataYT]

@@Kbxbigbro808 oh I'm not happy for reddit any more than for the fact that it's one of many Twitter "replacements" for people who dislike Elon's dumb takeover

[@saintsaens21]

Is instabrag better than twatter though?

[@NickWrightDataYT]

@@saintsaens21 definitely a lesser evil at this point.

[@Kbxbigbro808]

@@saintsaens21 Much much better then twitter

[@lokidecat]

I'm pretty shocked amazon was always so low, especially during the pandemic.

[@filledwithvariousknowledge2747]

Same. I expected a huge spike

[@DataIsBeautifulOfficial]

For e-commerce website they have pretty huge traffic.

[@oconnell88]

Wondered the same. I can only assume most people have the Amazon app and it doesn’t count towards web hits?

[@CMCAdvanced]

Amazon probably makes more money per visit than Google does

[@can72287]

Then instagram wouldn’t be there. That’s an app basically

[@DOSStorm]

Its almost comical how many times eBay falls off the list and comes back again

[@Billinois78]

Does anyone else watch the rise of Facebook and Twitter with a sense of dread?

[@skurinski]

Wikipedia too. Full of false info

[@Koozwad]

Yes but same for any big company really. They are heavily involved with corruption/politics.

[@Kbxbigbro808]

@@skurinski That’s fax I got blocked from editing Wikipedia just for trying to edit the tons of false info 😂

[@filledwithvariousknowledge2747]

@@skurinskiWishful thinker

[@filledwithvariousknowledge2747]

@@Kbxbigbro808What false info?!

[@fruitfcker5351]

Suggestion: how about time spent on each platform?

[@InHerLittleWay]

If you weren’t on MySpace from 2004 to 2009, you just had to be there to get it. What a time for the internet.