Visualizing the transition of the top site 20 reigning in the internet since 1996 will be like this

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Speaking of the "face" of the Internet today, Google, Facebook, Amazon, etc. come up with ideas, but since the Internet became popular in 1995, the change of the top site was a swaying thing.Washington PostIs visualizing the transition of the top site 20 from 1996 to 2013. Looking at the graph, it was only a few years ago that Amazon, established in 1994, went into the top five It is getting to know the surprising things such as things.

From Lycos to Ask Jeeves to Facebook: Tracking the 20 most popular web sites every year since 1996 - The Washington Post
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So this is the transition from 1996 to 2000. It seems that Google, Facebook, and Amazon, which are now famous on the Internet, have existed long ago, but only 16 years ago there was already a publicity with Amazon, and Facebook never even existed. The data of this time is the Internet media research companyComScoreIt is said that the graph uses the data as of December of each year.


First let's see the transition from 1996 to 2000. Windows 95 came out in 1995 and the Internet began to spread rapidly, but the Internet in 1996 was still immature. AOL is No. 1 and Yahoo! There are also forms of Infoseek, but the top 20 is ranked in many university websites. There are characters "GNN" and "Teleport" in the ranking, but it is unknown what it is now. Time passed, MSN in 1997, Amazon in 1998, CNET and eBay in 1999 for the first time respectively.


And this is the graph from 2000 to 2004. EBay will be among the top five in the past five years. Microsoft · MSN and Yahoo! Still has a strong power, Google which was established in 1998 and entered the ranking in 2001 ran the top five in the following year. Amazon does not enter the top five, but keeps within the top ten. Around this time sports channels specializedESPNAnd Disney will also be found.


Apple in 2005, Wikimedia in 2006FOXAnd the appearance of the current Internet will start to appear from 2004 to 2009, including the appearance of the Internet. In 2007, MicrosoftWe invested about 26.4 billion yenFacebook rankings. It is not published as Google and entering the top 5 in the following year, gradually increasing the rank. Google is Yahoo! in 2008. In the top 5 we will be in AOL andTime WarnerThere are websites that are currently slowing down momentum. Between 2002 and 2004, eBay, which was in the top 5, fell to the top 5 in 2007.


And this is a report from 2009 to 2013. Top 5 is Google · Yahoo! · Microsoft and Facebook, AOL, etc. who ranked rapidly in 2010, all the things that you can see today are available. Amazon ranked in 1998 entered the top five in 2011 and 2012. I can not see the appearance of Twitter, but business type SNSLinkedInIn 2013 he played the top 20th place.


Since this is a survey report by comScore, the Washington Post wrote that there is a possibility that if another survey company issues data, it may have different results.