Most Popular Websites 1996 - 2019
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- Опубликовано: 13 окт 2019
- Timeline of the most visited websites on the Internet from 1996 to 2019. Worldwide statistics based on websites traffic measured by monthly visits.
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Data source: media benchmark and companies reports 
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For those wondering
Baidu = Chinese google
Yandex = Russian google
Nova ohhhh thx
(But they are not related to Google - nationally 'administered' search engines.)
@@perisms you serious?
Thx
Thanks so much I was like wth is that
2019: Most searched thing on yahoo
Google
Whenever I launch google chrome instead of taking me to google it takes me straight to Yahoo
I have been living my life on the internet since 1993 every day, every hour and still going strong. 2020 here we come......
Internet is the most important thing in this world
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@@AdLin2023 Internet is destroying our world, it is killing us.
The irony is that most of those sites are probably hosted on Amazon servers...
It was truly an amazing time to be 12 in 1996 and see computers and Internet grow into what it is now. I feel privileged to be honest
I was 12 too in 1996, I miss those times... venturing in the early pop-internet culture was damn fun back then
Me too, seen all these become popular and we’re always the talk.
I am so f***ing jelous of you.
I was 12 in 2020.
I was 6 in 96. By 8 (1998) we had internet on our family computer. Toonami also premiered on Cartoon Network. No wonder I’m such a nerd. Anime and internet from age 8 which is also when my parents divorced.
yeah i wish i was born in 1984
2009 : *Google* vs *Yahoo*
2019 : *Pewdiepie* vs *T-Series*
2029 : *ornhub vs *videos
Can’t believe those websites actually got on the most popular
@@benzerious
Yeah I didnt even know those sites existed
@@pinkcherry9695 oh, come on
@@pinkcherry9695 yeah suuuuuureee
I didnt. My wife sorts me out fine.... by making pie.
Sometimes I forget Google is actually a website. It's basically everywhere.
King's of the Internet era
While you're on RUclips lol
Google is illuminati
Christopher Rod yahoo
Christopher Rod idk
The real mind blower here is that AOL doesn't drop out of the top 10 until 2013. They'd been a joke for a decade by that point.
Lot of grandmas keeping their AOL email
@@innocentrage1 lul
I used internet since 1996 and access AOL.
Where is mercadolivre in 2010? Lol?
The joke is that it turns out people want their internet stewarded by a web of corporations and the government, not just by AOL.
I was pretty shocked by that too.
Remember them giving away CDs like "500 free hours of AOL!"
I was always like" the internet is free. WTF are people paying AOL for exactly?
those last 2 sites are very interesting...
The growth of Cornhub is a real testament to the power of modern agriculture! ;-)
The uploader spelling them incorrectly and forgetting to include the logo suggests some kind of personal issue he should consult a psychiatrist about.
“It’s time”
- Google 2005
TO GO EVEN FURTHER BEYOND AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
Alex Vetrone plus ultra
😂
@@stixy3600 I laughed more than I should've!
Execute order 66
AoL: You took everything from me.
Google: I don't even know who you are.
noice
Honestly tho I don't have any idea what Aol is
Eshiro Shiro It was like the google of the 90’s
Honestly I Didn’t know what AOL is until today
Eshiro Shiro how do u not know aol?
I have been doing web development since 1995 and have some observations:
1. Surprised took Google so long to replace Yahoo. I had switched to Google in 2000 because the results were better
2. Yahoo probably briefly regained the lead after it became more of a content company.
3. MSN was always big due to default home page for IE which of course was default browser for Windows
4. Surprised AOL hung in there until 2013
Part of why Wikipedia did so well is because it’s the gateway to all other sources listed at the bottom whereas no other website was willing to list every source for how the page of information whatever you typed is on their website
Are you sure that's true? Citation needed.
Wikipedia is not a reliable source.
@@DemPilafian It’s been 3 months when is someone gonna add the citation?
@@FlurryPie0 Source: Their name.
Literally Wikipedia has available article on every website / search engines seen in the video. Even they had an article on their own.
*google appears on the screen*
All other sites: “why do I hear boss music?”
There it is lol
A new challenger has approached
RUclips in 2050 I’ll slay the beast
Haha
*laughs in youtube*
Imagine living in a world where people would say "Just Yahoo It"
Poor Yahoo.
Just Baidu it
LOL
*Imagine people sayin Just Phub it*
Supon
Awesome timeline! So weird to see the old websites everyone used to use!
Thanks for leaving out the actual most visited sites.
Google: " they had us in the first half, not gonna lie"
jeremy rocker underrated 😂
Where is it from?
jeremy rocker like this comment if you like my name
WOW 2 LIKES THANKS THATS THE MOST IVE EVER GOTTEN!
I dont get the 'they had us in the first half' meme, can someone explain?
I just realized I use google to get to RUclips
1998: Yahoo refuses to buy Google for $1 million dollars
2002: Yahoo tries to buy Google for $3 billion dollars but Google refuses
2008: Yahoo refuses to be sold to Microsoft for $40 billion dollars
2016: Yahoo is sold to Verizon for $4.6 billion dollars
Yahoo, the mother of bad decision making
(Edit: pls get this to 10k lol)
Bad decision making lol
Yeah like dude said bad decision making
Should have been named "Oh!No" instead of Yahoo
they also had billions of passwords released lmao
they got fucked up XD
I was curious to see how the pandemic would change things. Have a feeling that the last two sites would gain a few positions.
Or the last one to show up might have um , exploded
Amazon and other online shop websites also had a surge in viewings as more people bought online during lockdown as only those delivery people were realistically allowed out all the time since they only drop things off
Omg i literrally thought the same thing when it ended in 2019:)
What pandemic?
@@EdwardRock1 covid
I'll admit, I'm a little surprised at just how long and how well Yahoo performed.
Right? They had so much spam in the declining years
I knew that already being a young kid exposed to internet.
2000: yahoo vs google
2020: *ornhub vs *videos
The * mean is P
@@VinrezGD pvideos?
@@reav.1457 :v
xd
Ajja si we
Yahoo in 2019 :
“I used to rule the world”
viva la vida - coldplay
Oblivion5367 Captainsparklez fallen kingdom
Chucks would load when I gave the word
Viva la vida-Coldplay
Aol in 2002 :
“I used to rule the world”
Beautiful and fascinating! GREAT work! Thanks!
Many thanks!
Remember when google and yahoo were fighting for the top spot lmao
I remember when Yahoo was my go to search engine. lol. nice old times.
Ya
I looooooove seeing Yahoo's decline! Especially after what they did to Tumblr.
CERL Angel and theres a thing called 'ask yahoo' or something and Yahoo mail (which my dad used to always use). Really was the good times
Tommy they did what?
*2005 starts*
Google: “I’m about to end this man’s whole career.”
And that's what ornhub is saying in 2018
More like 2010 lmao
Took a while though, Yahoo seemed unstoppable
Lol I remember I was in school then one morning our teacher told us that Google provided a lot of stuff faster and smarter
I have been living my life on the internet since 1993 every day, every hour and still going strong. 2020 here we come......
I wish this channel had continue releasing content every month
As someone born in 2003 this is pretty cool
C'mon, let's admit it: we were all just waiting to see Google on the list since the beginning.
nope, came here to see altavista ... but its not included .. so the video is worthless and doesnt reflect reality
Lone Wolfe ikr 😂
And to get yahoo out of the list hahaha
I was just there at the end jpping youtibe would pass out facebook
yeah man everyone loves google
me: why is google so successful?
me: **googles it using google chrome in my android phone after watching this video on youtube**
Lfmao
fernando meliani The using an Android part of your comment was the funniest
give it some originality
That explains it 😅
Hahaha!
I remember seeing AOL ads in Prodigy. Outside of the apparent ad revenue, I never understood why Prodigy did that.
As a Splunk Admin … I love your channel name
RUclips: "We might not be number one, but what are you watching this video on?"
😂😂
It’s owned by google.
Bing lol
Yt!!!
Yutub
1990s: AOL
2000s: Yahoo
2010s: Google
2020s: *ornhub
Wtf
@@issam-i5685 It's actually possible if *ornhub decides to be more than just porn. That's how all these tech companies got so big. They decide to expand into other businesses
M. Evra they should open up messaging to other users
@@M.Evra91 a site with the name *orn in it, can't be taken seriously enough to do anything but. however if something as strange as that did happen, and pretend *ornhub did get more traffic than the king GOOGLE. google, would.... buy it out and take it over and own it. then they will either destroy it or use it to help with their agendas. money can and does buy anything, even your competition.
LostinOC no, not *ornhub,it’s way too sacred with all the *orn in it.
Sighhh was wondering ponhub on the track 🍻🎄🎉
Ohhhh appears! God bless for those hard working man
Your videos are awesome, I'm passionate about data👏👏
Imagine being Yahoo and not buying Google when you had the chance.
Bruh...
What are those numbers in the video
@@premsai2050 It's monthly visits to the website
@@ZaibatsuHeavyIndustries no. These are not per month visitors. These are the total visitors and it's increasing.
And if they bought ?whats gonna happen ? Google would have been as popular as now cause they could have changed major things lol and might have even rebranded the name "google"
We wont know if we would even have RUclips cause it was developed after 2000s(2005 i think) which is after yahoo refused the offer
Point is if yahoo had bought google ,RUclips might be non existent and same with the rest of Gapps(gmail ,gdocs etc )
@@dharshdanube6911Google didn't develop those things. These were startups which Google later acquired.
Yahoo: I'm winning
Google: *I am speed*
Kerchoo
They win just cause of android phone
i am the determination
They put up a good fight though. They were able to reclaim #1 at one point.
You mean:
google: hold my beer
Great job!!!
Kinda sad seeing CompuServe here at its end. For a while before widespread home ISP, CompuServe, Delphi, GEnie, Prodigy where the way a lot of us got onto the internet via shell accounts. SpaceWars, SeaWars, MegaWars, CB-Sim, CompuServe was the big goto for a long time. Nice vid!
Google: Exists
Yahoo: Why do I hear boss music
no
lol
In 2010
@@archdornan8349 why the fuck are you wooshing him lmao
Finéssé yes
I was sittin here thinkin “man whats ornhub???” Then I realized
LMAO
Cornhub obviously
me with *videos.
*videos pops up first and I firstly thought that’s a sum up of all video webs except RUclips...and then *ornhub came out and I found myself wrong 🤣
K_0ss why is that even on the list lol
The era when bookmark tool bars appeared magicaly in your browser
Yahoo holy cow. had no idea it was such a beast for such a long time
- 2005: Let me Yahoo this.
- 2006: Let me Google this.
- 2008: Let me Yahoo this.
- 2010: Let me Google this.
- 2017: Men needs more thing than info.
prod. RVFET haha
Then, some demonic mind created a thing called social media.
2019: Let me *ornhub this.
Man you can tell when Firefox and Chrome were dukeing it out for browser supremacy. Yeah I remember when Yahoo was the default browser for Firefox.
Funny enough, I knew right from the start that *ornhub was gonna be there XD
Let’s appreciate the fact that Yahoo stayed on the chart the entire video.
Found the yahoo-ceo
Yup. 1st email my family got back in 1999. Was .....@yahoo. my dad still uses it
Dawn Ellen I still using it!
@@AuttumnDawn hey I still have my @rocketmail email until now. I created it back in 2005 and use most of my social accounts with this email
YAAAAAHOOOOOO!
Great memories of using Altavista in the computer lab in middle school lol
Classic
Quite astonishing that even in 2019 Yahoo had 3.4 billion visits.
Yahoo: "You took everything from me..."
Google: *" I don't even know who you are."*
Aol.: "..."
Endgame reference nice hahaha
XDDDDDD
😂
Then Google it!
See ya in 8 years when this gets recommended to everybody
See you then
@@Finlandpro1 same
See ya later man
hahahah
:D
Interesting... The only site from the 1996 list I ever actively visited was Yahoo (and some random homepages on Geocities - the "darknet" of the 90s 🙂). My most frequently visited Website in the 90s was Altavista. I'm surprised it never made it into top 10.
Oh Geocities..
But Altavista did make it into the top 10. You have to look for it, because it's there & gone before you notice.
It made me sad seeing how short lived MySpace was.
Nah...it needed to die
MySpace was the golden age of social media.
@@stabinghobo57 It really was. MySpace allowed you to customize your profile to add creative personality with music and art. Everyone on there was just having fun talking to random people across the world and it wasn't intrusive. It didn't spy on everything else you do on your computer and sell it for advertising. People only saw what you wanted them to see, it wouldn't notify your grandma when you commented on a babes pick saying "nice bewbs 😉". I miss MySpace.
@@ooooswain coomer
@@ooooswain I got my first girlfriend from Myspace, I was 16.
I remembered those early 2000's my childhood as this video goes on those times. Longing for old times, childhood is really strange and it has a special pleasure tbh.
2010: exists
Yahoo: Aight imma head out.
Does 2019 exist?? 🤔
Andrew Mills i read it like
Yahoo imma head out
this got that many thumbs ups lol
Andrew Mills had to make room for “*ornhub”
I'm off the scene!
Yahoo: I am inevitable.
Google: And I.. am.. Google.
Hi
Even here we have spoilers lmao
@The main cause of warps in all of reality so that's why whenever I open my phone in public, it goes "oh hello there"
Do you mean invincible
Scratchmataz Do u watch Anvegers Endgame?
Anyone else get really excited and yet relaxed watching these?
Yeass
This was a trip down memory lane for sure
Yahoo: “what did it cost”
AOL : “Everything”
Look at yahoo's and aol's colours and read again
@@seemahandanarula5363 ???
@@seemahandanarula5363 I think you need to read again, pal.
@@chrishaugh1655 seema didn't try to correct him. He only tried to show that AOL has thanos's color and yahoo gamora...coincidentally
@@martodikromo99 yes u r right
Yahoo: You can’t defeat me
AOL: I know, but he can.
*GOOGLE APPEARS*
F for mah boi yahoo
Megalovania intensifies
underrated comment
The magic is at 3:03
Hello fellow Steve
What a cliffhanger! Just a few months later and Amazon and Netflix were about to explode!!
And TikTok.
Just Wandering and interesting to learn how you created these? impressive work
Me: What is this *videos site?
Sees *ornhub
ooooooooooohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
reuploadify that is soo true is was like wtf is *videos
reuploadify that’s what I thought and then I was like 👌
Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh I just saw it
reuploadify I love me some ornhub
I still do not get it. I know *ornhub, but what is *videos?
Hope you completed phd now and doing some great work.
How is it possible that Yahoo was still outperforming Amazon or that Amazon was no longer even on the list as of 2017?
If you're buying something you only log on to do that. Yahoo was a news/messenger site which means multiple visits per day
lot of people had/have yahoo email, and some companies that provided email on their own servers switched to having yahoo host those emails
@@brad7566 Yeah but Amazon has Prime movies and shows that attract clicks.
I guess that we 3 million customers don't search as much.
YahooMail is still has hundreds of millions of users, globally.
Amazon doesn't sell globally.
I just realized that all of these where monthly visits and that's the reason why the numbers were higher than the total human population.
Seriously, a labeled X axis would be a huge improvement. In most of these videos it's unclear what's being measured, it's always just a generic title like "most popular".
That plus the fact that one person can visit a website multiple times
What robots may search in google?
@@amenmanauser7216 For some robot action, robohub of a sort
Oh fuck wait..... Shit you're right
1996: Yahoo in top 10
2019: Yahoo still top 10
Yahoo is absolute trash
@@abonnierteuchselbst6361 Still in top 10
They forced me to click all that advertisment shitt
This is beyond science...
I still recall the days when we used Yahoo to find something as Google wasn't even there.
Dang. Never knew a running timeline could be so interesting.
Coming back later and watch it in slow-mo.
One thing, the music on the clip is so beautiful!
Holy crap, Google was like a freakin' meteor when it hit the scene.
I thought RUclips and Instagram we're going to catch up with Google. And Amazon! Why isn't it way up there? Aamf, where did it disappear to at the end?? smh
Kiki d Chiwah well google does own a lot of those websites
I was shocked at seeing it pull so far ahead so quickly. 😊
I suspect a lot of Google's growth was artificial and then by manipulating statistics, they pulled themselves up by their bootstraps, so to speak. Nowadays, the growth has slowed as people are looking for alternative search engines that don't track their every move. In case you missed it, the last couple months of 2019 is seeing a steep decline in RUclips and FakeBook. What does this tell you? *There actually are other video sites out there* that don't punish their creators and viewers with some arbitrary ever-changing set of rules and algorithms that do nothing but confuse and disgust their users. It's about to get worse with the new COPPA regulations coming into effect. Watch this site tank after 12/10/19.😐
Google:
“I am inevitable”
Yet
Es verdad yo también me apellido Lorenzo jajaja
Sadly there is no one even near to say "I'm iron man"
I am... XVIDEOS
Claudio Marco Lorenzo ?De Verdad?
excellent!👍👍🏼
Amazing how quickly fb flew up the list and the years that it happened are interesting. I know for people in my age group, seeing "joined in (2007-2009)" is very common.
Lifelog was pushed by the powers that be.
1992: aol
2019: *ornhub
U mean Cornhub? 😅
👌🏿
do you mean cornhub?
Hornhub? Avideos?
@@osamabinladen7062 finally i saw arabic xD
My friend is arabic and he deserve a lot of respect in my school
*RUclips is second place*
*Google owns RUclips*
Google: *you THOUGHT*
Google is becoming a monopoly like Disney
@@Thunderbolt_1000_Siren I am using duckduck go to search and telegram for social media in my Linux. No monopoly at all
@@Turplemaple6318 but your are here 😂
@@Turplemaple6318 he didn't say anything about the alternative youtube
@@gbles1457 I say no to RUclips , it is killing your furture , I am spending time reading and watch 2 movie weakly
"You've got mail!" was such a nice greeting when you checked your AOL inbox.
My first "internet-ready multimedia" PC (that was a thing) back in 1996 had a free subscription to "Prodigy Internet," which was a different offering than their standard service. It was a solid "unlimited" dial-up ISP for the price. The early Internet was such a place of wonder. I used to stay up all night searching random crap just to see what was out there. That Packard Bell Pentium ran at a blistering 150 mhz and had a 56k modem. That was so badass.
First place: Google
Second place: Google
Yeah it’s interesting
*insert obama giving himself a medal meme*
3rd place: skynet
Google is the web god
aka292 тебе так важно это прочитать? Congratulations u get the joke
MOST POPULAR WAR 2020:
RUclips Ads vs. My Patience
Grammarly ads vs. my sanity
youtube ads vs ad blocker
Just get a VPN and set your location to something funny like Ireland. Then you'll get ads about Guinness. When you get bored of those switch to a new location
Use vanced
I got 2 ads in a row 😔
Wow this brings back so many memories of AOL and you've got mail. My how the time has passed.
It does!
I would love to see broadband/ethernet adoption rates over the years (especially fiber optics) breaking out from dial-up.
It's crazy how fast broadband blew up relative to dial-up.
Cool idea!
I'm suffering under CenturyLink on 3MBPS ADSL here in southern OR.
Over a quarter million people still use dial up in the U.S. And just a few short years ago around 2015-2017 at least 2 million people were still using it
@@Ariesguy41499 Really, in the UK they actually switched dial up off about 2015. Forcing people to pay for ADSL even though they were so far from a broadband exchange the download speeds weren't much better.
Teachers watching Wikipedia climb
*”NOOOOOOOOOOOO”*
This isn’t 2005 anymore
@Bio Kimistry that's a LIE
@Bio Kimistry not in my university in sweden and china.
@@ositopolar2115 No its not lol
Wikipedia is hi jacked.
Wikipedia: **is on the chart**
Teachers: 😱
The smart teachers know Wikipedia can be a spectacular source when the article contributors are good.
@@Dwade32 tru, but most teachers...
"Wikipedia is not a good source of info!!! also NO POMEGRANATES"
@@calilamirra9096 Wikipedia is a propaganda encyclopedia
@anit Kumar Indians master race explain how it is
It's data like this that makes me miss the old future.
Everybodies friend, Tom, cashed out at just the right time.
*2001 starts*
AOL: Why do i hear boss music?
Oh, you're approaching me?
@@o.gtripleo.g8554 YAHOO TURNED TO SHIT WITH MODS DANGG
If he dies, he dies
O.G TripleO.G instead of running,
you’re coming right to me!?
Lol
WHEN XVIDEOS AND PORNHUB ENTERED THE CHAT I LOST IT ROSJSJSJS
It was fucking hilarious to see the number of visits per month go down in November lmao
no nut november
😂😂
I wonder how snapchat has no part in this
@@jonathanmartinezj5281 i don't think snapchat has a website
Who remembers having an AOL email address just to use the chat messenger?
When the idea of watching any video over the internet seemed fathomable?
Or when the question of whether Ask Jeeves or Google would become more dominant was considered legitimate?
Being startled by the music when clicking someone’s MySpace profile?
Arguing about whether downloading from Napster was really stealing or a revolution?
Looking for the next Napster after it was shut down and then the next music sharing site after that?
Being able to watch almost any television show or movie on RUclips?
Being amazed the first time you could Google something by simply typing it into the address bar?
Before email addresses were expected on resumes?
When having you own website meant you were either a computer science prodigy or rich?
Thinking Yahoo’s search engine was a legitimate alternative to Google?
When thousands of websites could fool most search engines simply by adding invisible tags and terms into their website so searches routinely turned up hundreds of irrelevant results?
Man, I was a diehard Lycos fan in the 90s. Ah, the good old days.
Aol: "You took everything from me."
Gen Z: "I don't even know who you are."
Art Alcoolique what’s aol tho
Yeah wtf is Aol
I got on the internet in '97. I never got an AOL account.
i literally had to search what it is
moopers aol was for instant messaging, used before texting was really big
Google 2019:
Remember that thing called yahoo
No
and now you search for Yahoo! using google
Vlad best ironic
What's Yahoo anyway
Google: If you still remember remember Yahoo, you had a great childhood
Very Good Knowledge
When that CNET Asian cellphone/MP3 player reviewer died with hypothermia because his car died in the middle of the woods. My heart went out to him.
2005: Google: “My time has come”
2008: Yahoo: “reverse”
2010: Google: “uno reverse”
Google - "I activate my trap card"
Sanket Jadhav not funny didn’t laugh
Uno me out
Google: “no u”
Google 2010 -> today: "Android effect"
Everyone else: Looking at RUclips VS FaceBook
Me: Looking at *ornhub VS *Videos
Cornhub vs bmx videos, it's a typo.
the real thing that matters here
but xvideos gave my old devices a virus so i don’t go there anymore
Lol
Me too😉
Google vs Yahoo
This battle will be legendary
please make more videos :)
AOL: “I used to rule the world!”
Google: “I don’t even know who you are.”
Me too xddd
*ornhub: You will
@@sonyw55 I'd agree but we aren't in the time of pioneers anymore. Just like how we arent making double the leaps in technology anymore.
Google knows everything lul
But google knows everything.....google aol😂😂
what is *videos?
literally less than 10 seconds later
*ornhub appears
oh right xDDD
David Ramírez Gil xvideos
me too
@@emineferrahialibay2138 add a p first then ornhub
lol it's literally talking billions🤦🤦🤦🤦🤦
Biggest plot twist ever. Didn't see that coming.
The wait is excruciating, only to be met with what we all expected
Memories unlocked galore.
A moment of respect for the fall of AOL and Yahoo. All the 90's search engines in memorial.
No comments???
I regret downloading Yahoo
Then RIP google
Im still using yahoo for asking questions...lol...
There's no Google Answer, only Yahoo Answer...
76billion people downloaded Google I think 68billion were aliens this proves how much famous is google