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NotMyProblemAnymoreCunt
Biggest Trails Stan
Stop making me feel old
The_hunter
Member
Who's still using yahoo?
TheMan
Member
This is amazing.
First off i didn’t realize that yahoo still held that kind of market share so late and to see them on the list at all in the last 5 years is mindblowing to me.
Amazon not being higher and not even being on the list as of January is extremely surprising .
Xvideo lol
Googles dominance is astounding
First off i didn’t realize that yahoo still held that kind of market share so late and to see them on the list at all in the last 5 years is mindblowing to me.
Amazon not being higher and not even being on the list as of January is extremely surprising .
Xvideo lol
Googles dominance is astounding
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Sub_Level
wants to fuck an Asian grill.
Xvideo makes the list, look at 2020 and 2021.
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korosanbo
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Sidney Prescott
Member
It's honestly crazy how YouTube just came out of nowhere, and blew up so quickly and now I use it daily.
I'd still say the best moments were back in the day when it had star ratings and whatnot, but I can't deny the amount of free content on there is absurd. Always something to watch.
I'd still say the best moments were back in the day when it had star ratings and whatnot, but I can't deny the amount of free content on there is absurd. Always something to watch.
Quixz
Member
I still use Yahoo mail
StreetsofBeige
Gold Member
Yahoo probably gets a lot of visits due to Yahoo Finance. Got to be the most popular site for stocks going back to the dot com phase in 2000. I never use Yahoo, but still use Yahoo Finance since then.
Never heard of Webcrawler ever.
Didnt know Xvideos was the biggest porn site. Thought it'd be Pornhub.
As for Google blowing everyone away, back then when everyone was doing search engines and Google just arrived, main reason why I used it wasnt due to the search results. I dont think the average person even cared or compared results. It was just that Google was a clean fast site when all the other typical search companies tried to be that be all and end all home page of news, videos, sports, search etc.... Cluttered junk that could slow down your surfing. Yahoo still does it.
I just want to search for shit and not be hit with media.
Yahoo home page when I visit it
Google
Never heard of Webcrawler ever.
Didnt know Xvideos was the biggest porn site. Thought it'd be Pornhub.
As for Google blowing everyone away, back then when everyone was doing search engines and Google just arrived, main reason why I used it wasnt due to the search results. I dont think the average person even cared or compared results. It was just that Google was a clean fast site when all the other typical search companies tried to be that be all and end all home page of news, videos, sports, search etc.... Cluttered junk that could slow down your surfing. Yahoo still does it.
I just want to search for shit and not be hit with media.
Yahoo home page when I visit it
nkarafo
Member
Still my main e-mail. The majority of my accounts have this e-mail for proof/retrieve passwords.
Speaking of, what the hell happens if they ever decide to close doors?
My mother has already tasted something similar. After a format, she couldn't log in her original e-mail because she gave a wrong phone number for proof, so there is no way to log in, i tried. That causes a few other of her accounts to be locked as well since there is no way to retrieve a lost password with this e-mail. It's dead.
Now, i backup my passwords but still... I won't be able to ever change them or re-activate them in case there's some kind of security check or forced password change or something, if the e-mail is dead.
Has this ever happened yet with an e-mail provider?
Hypereides
Member
I generally miss when the web was vastly less centralized than it is today. Like, privately user hosted fansites, shrine websites, tribute websites, small communities... there was far more individuality and personality to be found.
All that got overtaken by massive aggregators hoarding and redirecting all the traffic.
Tams
Member
Japan at least. Yahoo! News is popular and Yahoo! Auctions is their equivalent of eBay.
V1LÆM
Gold Member
i feel old 
i remember Google being in beta and infact i remember when Google wasn't my search engine! i used to go to Yahoo sometimes but Geocities/MSN were the sites i went to a lot then when Myspace came around i moved there. eventually moved to Facebook but it went to shit real quick.
i got my first PC in 1997 or 1998. it ran Windows 95 but eventually upgraded to Windows 98 lol. i used MSN explorer all the time. once my dial up connected i always logged right into explorer. it felt like it had everything. a browser, email, messenger, games, music, photos, groups. i feel so nostalgic looking at this image lol
i remember Google being in beta and infact i remember when Google wasn't my search engine! i used to go to Yahoo sometimes but Geocities/MSN were the sites i went to a lot then when Myspace came around i moved there. eventually moved to Facebook but it went to shit real quick.i got my first PC in 1997 or 1998. it ran Windows 95 but eventually upgraded to Windows 98 lol. i used MSN explorer all the time. once my dial up connected i always logged right into explorer. it felt like it had everything. a browser, email, messenger, games, music, photos, groups. i feel so nostalgic looking at this image lol
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DeepEnigma
Gold Member
That and sports leagues.
NeoIkaruGAF
Gold Member
That Google sprint in the mid 2000s… woah.
I guessed Amazon would be way higher by the end of the vid.
I guessed Amazon would be way higher by the end of the vid.
chromhound
Member
Still got one of those
InfiniteCombo
Banned
Step 1: connect
Step 2: *Loud modem connection sounds*
Step 3: "Welcome! You've got mail!"
Step 4: .....
Step 5: Profit
Damn, thinking of those AOL days makes me feel old
Step 2: *Loud modem connection sounds*
Step 3: "Welcome! You've got mail!"
Step 4: .....
Step 5: Profit
Damn, thinking of those AOL days makes me feel old
PaddyOCanager
Member
I always had cable internet growing up, it felt nice being an elitist on the early days of internet. We used to drive around and toss pennies at the dial up poors.Step 1: connect
Step 2: *Loud modem connection sounds*
Step 3: "Welcome! You've got mail!"
Step 4: .....
Step 5: Profit
Damn, thinking of those AOL days makes me feel old
I prefer using Yahoo mail over Gmail over Outlook/Hotmail/Live mail.
Yahoo answers was pretty good before they shut that down.
DragoonKain
Neighbours from Hell
Remember rotten.com?
IntentionalPun
Ask me about my wife's perfect butthole
Not sure why people are all that shocked about amazon dropping off.
As more and more time was spent on the internet doing non shopping things shopping in general goes lower down the "list."
Amazon's traffic is still the same it's just from a ranking perspective it goes down. People aren't shopping online less, or shopping less at amazon.. they are just doing other things online now.
Xvideos likely jumped when pornhub scrubbed all of their amateur content in that big kiddy porn scare. They were actually paying people to upload videos so got targeted specifically. That's just porn market share increasing... they were probably both at like ~2 million (whatever their metric) is and then PornHub gets cut in half and XVideos jumps to 3 million and topples amazon on the list.
As more and more time was spent on the internet doing non shopping things shopping in general goes lower down the "list."
Amazon's traffic is still the same it's just from a ranking perspective it goes down. People aren't shopping online less, or shopping less at amazon.. they are just doing other things online now.
Xvideos likely jumped when pornhub scrubbed all of their amateur content in that big kiddy porn scare. They were actually paying people to upload videos so got targeted specifically. That's just porn market share increasing... they were probably both at like ~2 million (whatever their metric) is and then PornHub gets cut in half and XVideos jumps to 3 million and topples amazon on the list.
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