Most Popular Websites 1996 - 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

[nova]

For those wondering

Baidu = Chinese google
Yandex = Russian google

[ismailjamshid]

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)

[hardikgupta]

Sometimes I forget Google is actually a website. It's basically everywhere.

[MichaelSidneyTimpson]

The irony is that most of those sites are probably hosted on Amazon servers...

[ayushkhandelwal]

2019: Most searched thing on yahoo


Google

[KyleSummers]

1990s: AOL
2000s: Yahoo
2010s: Google
2020s: *ornhub

[utsgotnoguts]

2009 : *Google* vs *Yahoo*

2019 : *Pewdiepie* vs *T-Series*

2029 : *ornhub vs *videos

[randomanton]

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

[tylermcay]

Imagine living in a world where people would say "Just Yahoo It"

[luckysalt]

AoL: You took everything from me.
Google: I don't even know who you are.

[puffypuppy]

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.

[sdefonta]

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

[KlausSgroi]

C'mon, let's admit it: we were all just waiting to see Google on the list since the beginning.

[kbzonmarko]

Imagine being Yahoo and not buying Google when you had the chance.
Bruh...

[Kross]

*2005 starts*

Google: “I’m about to end this man’s whole career.”

[PhantomSavage]

I'll admit, I'm a little surprised at just how long and how well Yahoo performed.

[jeremycastro]

Google: " they had us in the first half, not gonna lie"

[jemmaaoc]

Remember when google and yahoo were fighting for the top spot lmao

[filledwithvariousknowledge]

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

[ziolagan]

2000: yahoo vs google
2020: *ornhub vs *videos