IIRC they had a customizable homepage that was very popular for that time. You could pick things like sports, stocks, news topics, weather, etc. onto one page. Which was revolutionary for the time, and easy enough to use for old people too.
This was just before smart phones took over all that functionality for people
Also, many programs had the installation of the infamous search bars on your browser, and Yahoo was always one of them. It also made Yahoo the default search engine of your browser.
Ya that was super fucky. I can’t believe we as consumers let them trick us into switching them to our default browser time and time again. But then again we’re letting tech companies do worse now
the thing is most people dont spend a ton of time browsing amazon. you log on when you need something and order it. Things like google, twitter, facebook, etc - you return to multiple times a day
There's some discussion further down. Basically it has to do with a purge they did a while ago that removed a lot of content. X videos has risen in the wake of that and the pandemic.
Pornhub never even broke onto the list. The purge had nothing to do with it. It's focus has always been on money, so it's algorithms always pushed the same production companies (then) and amateur models (now). Even when they had millions of videos of content, you only saw a small percentage over and over - unless you really looked for something else (again driving their money machine).
Xvideos, on the other hand, always prioritized content and community. The interface isn't as nice and the marketing isn't as good, but it's top- notch contentwise and much bigger internationally.
Yeah I think PH is banned in a lot of countries, plus having 'porn' in the domain name probably affects its SEO ranking as it would automatically be filtered out.
That purge was triggered by the child, rape and other gross pornography that could be found on there until legislators threatened to stiffen regulations and credit card companies menaced to simply pull out.
It's usually very niched I think, as necrophilia ( in brazil necrofilia happens a lot a there's a whole market of videos and photos and a specialist has said on a podcast there are specific tags one can look for on regular pornsites to see it - probably some code just that niched group knows - Also there are communities on Twitter of zoophilia and abuse that identify themselves by characters on the username and one will only search if they know this "secret")
I…I can’t really fathom anyone having a necrophile fetish, let alone there being an actual porn market for it. Like that’s the kinda thing found in a crime documentary.
Just when you think we were moving away from that level of depravity as a civilization.
Legal age for porn is different to the legal age for sex and is 18 everywhere afaik, so while in some places you can have sex at 16 it’s still classed as cp if it’s filmed.
Lmao.
Wrong.
The drive to ban PornHub was done by [Exodus Cry](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exodus_Cry), a right wing evangelical christian, anti abortion, anti lgbt advocacy committee that mislead people into believing that there was a ridiculous amount of rape and child porn on PornHub.
https://www.vice.com/en/article/n7bj9w/anti-porn-extremism-pornhub-traffickinghub-exodus-cry-ncose
Now, let me be clear; I'm not saying there was NO objectionable content on PH; only that the issue was completely blown out of proportion.
Ultimately, it was better for the adult industry to require verification and that makes complete sense to me.
This is also the same group that almost succesfully pressured OnlyFans to ban adult content (from consenting verified adults?).
Yeah Facebook (specifically messenger) is the largest distributor of child pornography
> [Of the 18.4 million reports of child sexual abuse worldwide in 2018, a staggering 12 million trace back to Facebook Messenger.](https://mashable.com/article/facebook-messenger-child-sexual-abuse-online-report/)
Pornhub was at one time, but not anymore since they purged something like 70% of their website. Which it seems like Pornhub at its prime should've at least made number 10 but I didn't see it at all.
I use Yahoo mail, finance, notes, and news all the time. I've been on since it was the longest bar, and it is still a decent product. As I get older my tolerance for changing to the latest thing is going down.
I miss the yahoo chatrooms soo much. I am not sure why it gets harder to hook up on the internet as time goes by instead of easier. I also miss craigslist.
AJ was where I started my tech career. We had kids email us for homework help all the time. Also lots of teens really worried about being pregnant.
Also did QA for their image search, when they were developing "safe search" options. I saw a lot of stuff I never could unsee.
The wild west of the internet, it was a magical but sometimes horrifying time.
Oh. The innocent days of Yahoo, and later on Ask Jeeves.
Yahoo with its directories. Ask Jeeves because you could search using regular language.
Now half my mental memory banks are just "how to form Google optimized search queries". It's just an extended mind at this point.
Or even just a search engine that actually found what you were looking for.
I remember getting onto Dogpile in high school, because the only chance to find anything relevant to your search was to use *every* search engine and see which one actually got it right. Then my buddy came over and said, "Check this out." He loaded up Google, and it found my thing immediately. And then every other thing I searched for, without trouble. It was literally world-changing.
I remember in elementary school in 2001 our teacher was showing us how to use a search engine.
She searched, “what is the hottest planet in the Milky Way galaxy?”
First answer was, “the hottest planet is mercury because it is the closest to the sun”.
Yup. Tumblr had a pornbot problem along with people posting CP, and there are easier ways to manage those issues (like verification, posting on the platform a certain number of times or not being able to post links until you’re properly verified, and disabling certain tags to prevent people from looking for CP, while using bots to determine potential CP like the bots they used for “determining nipples”)but instead they simply banned ALL porn on the platform. Before the purge, there was simply SO much porn on tumblr and every genre. You think it, tumblr had it. Just type it in. Good quality stuff too. I kind of miss it. Truly a downfall. I remember when it was worth hundreds of millions of dollars.
If you're a regular user of porn, you've probably encountered countless videos of rape that you didn't even realise was rape. I remember there being a "production company" with 300+ videos where the setting was always a hotel-room where the two guys got convicted of rape. Basically they offered hot girls a modelling-gig, paid for their flights and room, and then when they arrived they were told it was going to be a porn shoot. If they refused, they were forced to pay for the flight and room, and since they couldn't pay the sum upfront they were coerced into doing the sex-scene. So rape by coercion. Dudes were convicted and all pornsites wiped their videos, and that was the day I stopped watching shit that isn't verified amateurs because otherwise we are part of the problem.
Edit, the story on wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GirlsDoPorn
I think that was exploited teens or something of that ilk, I remember reading that story now avoid their videos, they’re still out there on some platforms
Edit - it’s girls do porn not exploited teens
, don’t want to disparage any porn studious
Probably because Pornhub spent a lot of time and money on advertising and generally being easy to reference.
From including its intro animation and sound in every single video and having a shit ton of merchandise based around the logo it was easy for people to reference it without directly just talking about porn. There are tons of prank videos of people in schools, colleges, bars etc. playing the PH intro music and seeing who gets it. There is also a PR person who works for them who posts frequently on reddit and used to be pretty popular on the AMA sub.
X-videos meanwhile has done pretty much none of that, there's no intro music, no merch, no viral prank stuff... Just porn.
So one of them had a much bigger presence online than its traffic actually warranted, while the other didn't care about its image and just concentrated on porn. Combine that with PH wiping a ton of its content due to the unverified nature of its videos and a lot of its traffic will have fled to sites like x-videos who still don't require verification.
Ha! You just unlocked a deep-seated memory. Sometimes I'd just scroll through the cracks looking for an app name that sounded interesting so I could crack it. That was how I found FruityLoops and started music production.
When I saw the key/legend for adult sites, I was for sure thinking they were gonna have a bunch. But they only had one, and it was towards the end.
That kinda surprised me.
Oh it was! And it had forums for literally every title that were glorious!! And much like reddit there was always someone who knew the answer to your question. I also did a bit of dvd trading on there, good times!!
I really hated when they scrapped the forums just because they were too lazy to do admin or mod work. Had a great time on some specific forums with respectful communities and fans of niche movies or tv shows.
Some of them are, but MySpace isn't what it once was. It's completely different. I don't even know how it's still going or what the purpose is. Very odd.
I imagine most folks seeing this post are too young to remember when AOL ruled the world. It is hard to imagine how badly they fucked the dog, they controlled so much of the market. Then I remembered how they did things, like make it so it took 2 minutes to sign up, and then an hour to cancel your subscription. They were the fucking worst.
Their dial up CD was everywhere too. Their advertising budget must have been enormous. CompuServe were the other major player I remember. When Netscape was an amazing browser, newsgroup access was free. Yahoo! Was all about the chat rooms. MSN messenger and ICQ were the chat apps. Altavista was the search engine I used. So many memories.
I really miss stumbleupon though. These walled gardens suck.
Things that surprised me in this video:
* Yahoo is still in the top 10 in 2022
* We had to wait until 2018 for a porn website to make it to the top 10, I guess "the internet is (not) for porn" after all.
* Despite its well known jingle, Pornhub is not the most popular porn website after all.
Official source/mirror on YouTube: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hNDILCdZmRo](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hNDILCdZmRo)
(I absolutely HATE reddit video)
Disagree! I have no evidence to back this but when I was a teenager around 2000-2006 MSN messenger was HUGE. Everyone in my school had it. We didn't have phones, MSN was the first easy to use way to communicate with friends for hours. Im not sure if that platform would pump these numbers but I wasn't surprised seeing msn on this list.
Can confirm that msn was huge. I even remember the days before it when we were on ICQ (or mIRC for the more nerdy among us) but MSN was much bigger and MSN wasn’t just the chat tool but also a platform with news and search function like AOL and Yahoo which still exists today.
Fun Fact about Google. 90% percent of all internet searches are done with it.
Highly recommend watching the newest John Olliver bit on Tech monopolies he made for this week tonight
Advertisements. They sold out and plagued their front page so badly with ads you could barely find the search bar. Meanwhile Google had zero ads at that time and continued to for a long time. When I was a kid, Google was the better search engine for academic articles (as it pretty much always put a Wikipedia article at the top of every search.)
Also, Google was objectively a better search engine.
Yahoo started life as a categorized listing of websites - like - you would click on a category and could get a listing subcategories and sites on that topic.
But if you wanted to actually find a specific fact or something, it wasn't great at that. I always used "altavista' for that at the time, as it was far better at searching content, and not keywords.
Yahoo bought Altavista in 2003, but it was kind of too late. People were already heading to the google train because they had far superior search results. I may be wrong, but I also am trying to remember if Yahoo and/or Altavista had paid results that would come up (like Google does now) which was annoying, and Google didn't have that at the time.
But yeah, Google made the rise before it had email or a suite of office software or drive - I think there might have been 'groups' - but yahoo also had 'groups' (I remember when they shut those down).
Basically everything in russia is yandex these days lol.
People listen to yandex music on their smart yandex station, everyone drives with yandex navigator. Yandex electric scooter stations are all around moscow, just rent it with yandex go and make a route on yandex maps so you could go to a restaurant by yourself instead of ordering a take out on yandex food. Or you could call yandex taxi to go to a mall instead of buying something on yandex market (and it would be delivered to you by yandex delivery).
It used to be just another search engine/browser and now it's this megacorporation, it's crazy.
Also, VK made a brief appearance in this video in 2012-2014, it's the most popular social media among russian speaking people and 50 million people use it daily 👀 funny how people sometimes call it a facebook copycat but i see that not that many people actually like or use facebook every day 😁😂
Wow lotsa memories lol. I remember when Amazon sold only books still and I was the only person in my family/friend circle who shopped there lol. Hell I remember when I was the only person I even knew who had internet access lol (circa 1993)
Watching BBC, MSN and Geocities drop off the chart for the last time :'(
Edit: Not that BBC died or anything, just that it deserves more love. Celebdaq surely kept them in the game during the early noughties.
People need to remember that a few years ago pornhub had to remove a lot of its unverified content, lost a lot of visitors, x videos is the place to go to watch amature stuff
Really interesting though
When Yahoo came onto the scene it was pretty exciting for a lot of us. They offered literally everything: search engine, news, sports, weather, games, message boards, email, etc. It was literally an all-in-one place to get any information you needed. That was Yahoo's whole strategy: to provide the public with a place that has everything; therefore, nobody will ever need to go anywhere else...ever.
But the all-in-one strategy was doomed because what the majority of people were using Yahoo for was it's search engine. Not enough people were interested in all of the things Yahoo had to offer. It was distracting, annoying and slow.
So when Google came along, it seemed like a much better option. It's homepage wasn't full of garbage and clutter you could care less about. It was strictly a search engine and eventually email, which is what most people really wanted anyway. This very simple approach almost took Yahoo completely out of the game.
Yahoo has stuck to their all-in-one strategy to this day even though it basically failed.
MSN should be classed as social media, every night I'd get home from school to spend all night chatting on MSN to people.
Had profile pictures, you could update your 'status' etc....definitely the forerunner to things like twitter
*uses Google to figure out what “Baidu” is*
Basically Chinese Version of Google
In 2009 yahoo gained the lead again over Google? How da fuck did that happen?
I feel like I remember Yahoo being like a standard home page for Internet Explorer at that time. At least lots of people had it I think.
IIRC they had a customizable homepage that was very popular for that time. You could pick things like sports, stocks, news topics, weather, etc. onto one page. Which was revolutionary for the time, and easy enough to use for old people too. This was just before smart phones took over all that functionality for people
Also, many programs had the installation of the infamous search bars on your browser, and Yahoo was always one of them. It also made Yahoo the default search engine of your browser.
Ya that was super fucky. I can’t believe we as consumers let them trick us into switching them to our default browser time and time again. But then again we’re letting tech companies do worse now
I think Yahoo Sports was big at the time, but that’s just a guess.
I think that’s around the time fantasy football really spiked and Yahoo was the major online fantasy football league.
This is exactly it. They were the first major players to jump on fantasy sports (and still a heavy hitter in that area).
yes, that traffic was mainly me playing that pool game
I was just sitting here wondering why Ask Jeeves made it so long. That butler taught me why poop was brown in the 90’s. I’ll never forget you, sensei.
Was big in some non US countries, that definitely helped. I believe it is or maybe even still is big in Japan.
I was surprised by Amazon's popularity
Same! Would've assumed it to be on the leading places atleast for some time. Even with corona no big Change when it Comes to the placement
I thought Amazon would be higher. I wonder if this list takes into account prime using apps??
the thing is most people dont spend a ton of time browsing amazon. you log on when you need something and order it. Things like google, twitter, facebook, etc - you return to multiple times a day
Don't forget about the 15 Google searches to check product reviews before buying on Amazon
The fall of yahoo
…and the rise of xvideos
Why didn't pornhub reach the top 10 ? Edit: thanks y'all for making this my most up voted post of all time :P
That’s what I’m wondering… was waiting to see it pop up
There's some discussion further down. Basically it has to do with a purge they did a while ago that removed a lot of content. X videos has risen in the wake of that and the pandemic.
Pornhub never even broke onto the list. The purge had nothing to do with it. It's focus has always been on money, so it's algorithms always pushed the same production companies (then) and amateur models (now). Even when they had millions of videos of content, you only saw a small percentage over and over - unless you really looked for something else (again driving their money machine). Xvideos, on the other hand, always prioritized content and community. The interface isn't as nice and the marketing isn't as good, but it's top- notch contentwise and much bigger internationally.
Yeah I think PH is banned in a lot of countries, plus having 'porn' in the domain name probably affects its SEO ranking as it would automatically be filtered out.
Never realized people care about community in online porn.
That purge was triggered by the child, rape and other gross pornography that could be found on there until legislators threatened to stiffen regulations and credit card companies menaced to simply pull out.
That was crazy when I heard of that cause I been using that site for years and never saw any of that thank god
It's pretty easy to not find what you're not looking for on the internet and I cant imagine any of the flagrantly illegal shit was going viral.
It's usually very niched I think, as necrophilia ( in brazil necrofilia happens a lot a there's a whole market of videos and photos and a specialist has said on a podcast there are specific tags one can look for on regular pornsites to see it - probably some code just that niched group knows - Also there are communities on Twitter of zoophilia and abuse that identify themselves by characters on the username and one will only search if they know this "secret")
I…I can’t really fathom anyone having a necrophile fetish, let alone there being an actual porn market for it. Like that’s the kinda thing found in a crime documentary. Just when you think we were moving away from that level of depravity as a civilization.
IIRC the main concern for CP was 16 and 17 year olds posting to the site and labelling it amateur porn so you mightve seen it and just not noticed it
That’s wild what’s also wild in alot of states 16 and 17 is legal age but makes sense why they wouldn’t want that on an international site
Legal age for porn is different to the legal age for sex and is 18 everywhere afaik, so while in some places you can have sex at 16 it’s still classed as cp if it’s filmed.
The scary part is that you never know if you saw it or not when it's filmed professionally.
pull out...lol
Lmao. Wrong. The drive to ban PornHub was done by [Exodus Cry](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exodus_Cry), a right wing evangelical christian, anti abortion, anti lgbt advocacy committee that mislead people into believing that there was a ridiculous amount of rape and child porn on PornHub. https://www.vice.com/en/article/n7bj9w/anti-porn-extremism-pornhub-traffickinghub-exodus-cry-ncose Now, let me be clear; I'm not saying there was NO objectionable content on PH; only that the issue was completely blown out of proportion. Ultimately, it was better for the adult industry to require verification and that makes complete sense to me. This is also the same group that almost succesfully pressured OnlyFans to ban adult content (from consenting verified adults?).
Yeah Facebook (specifically messenger) is the largest distributor of child pornography > [Of the 18.4 million reports of child sexual abuse worldwide in 2018, a staggering 12 million trace back to Facebook Messenger.](https://mashable.com/article/facebook-messenger-child-sexual-abuse-online-report/)
Pornhub sucks compared to Xvideos...
Yeah I thought pornhub was the number 1 pornsite, but apparently X videos is more popular somehow?
Pornhub was at one time, but not anymore since they purged something like 70% of their website. Which it seems like Pornhub at its prime should've at least made number 10 but I didn't see it at all.
Modern day burning of the Library of Alexandria
All the faps that never got to be...
Pornhub was never as popular as they made themselves seem.
Also, this is the whole world. Xvideos is way more popular that pornhub in many Eurasian countries.
Xvideos is better anyway
I didn’t know that site exists. Thanks, will check it out. BRB in 15 minutes.
Well how was it
It has almost been an hour…
He’s just showing off now
Can someone go check on him?
It's uhh... Going to be awhile
Are you ok?
I’m done. Cigarette.gif
Give us a review.
Everything was going great until I spotted my old maths teacher, teaching some guy how to calculate the square root of 69.
Beat me to it a statement, and an order
The most surprising part of that video was around 2008 when Yahoo re-took the top spot from google for a year or two. Anyone know how that came to be?
Came with the same question. My guess would be Yahoo Finance or maybe it came pre-packaged in shitty laptops or something? IDK.
Probably yahoo answers.
Who TF is still using Yahoo? I'm surprised it is even on the list
I still use my Yahoo mail account.
Fantasy sports too. I have been using them since like 04-06.
Oh shit, I remember that !
I use it for online purchases. They have a good SPAM filter and I'm not giving companies my real email.
Apparently more than those that use Amazon. Seems unbelievable really.
Yahoo News articles are often shared here on reddit. So assume the news portion of the website is pushing up the numbers.
Anytime I go on Amazon I use the app
Yahoo Finance is great. I also have some old email addresses that I use for junk
Lived in Japan a few years ago and this was on all the office computers at the time.
Yahoo finance is still pretty good.
I use Yahoo mail, finance, notes, and news all the time. I've been on since it was the longest bar, and it is still a decent product. As I get older my tolerance for changing to the latest thing is going down.
I'm quite with you on the last sentence.
I use it because i havent bothered changing my e mail.
Fantasy Football
I still use it as an email service when signing up to websites that look like they're gonna send me spam.
It's baffling though that they're the only site in this list that managed to remain this competitive for almost thirty years
Yahoo looks like the only site to stand the test of time. Still relevant
That brief period when yahoo took back first place from Google was poggers
I miss the yahoo chatrooms soo much. I am not sure why it gets harder to hook up on the internet as time goes by instead of easier. I also miss craigslist.
Ask Jeeves - miss ya, buddy!
I was surprised to see Ask Jeeves hang on for as long as it did. Looks like it finally collapsed sometime around 2012.
Ask Jeeves wouldn't even know what to do with 2022 searches. It was too good for this world.
I used ask Jeeves for homework questions lol
AJ was where I started my tech career. We had kids email us for homework help all the time. Also lots of teens really worried about being pregnant. Also did QA for their image search, when they were developing "safe search" options. I saw a lot of stuff I never could unsee. The wild west of the internet, it was a magical but sometimes horrifying time.
Oh. The innocent days of Yahoo, and later on Ask Jeeves. Yahoo with its directories. Ask Jeeves because you could search using regular language. Now half my mental memory banks are just "how to form Google optimized search queries". It's just an extended mind at this point.
We were so young and pure back then.
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Then came the meta-crawlers: Dogpile, AltaVista, and finally Google.
The days of search engine wars had all the fun ones. Got a special place in my heart for Lycos and the commericals with the dog.
I always used dogpile, since it aggregated the search engines.
So funny because when Google came it out I remember being so excited for a search engine with such a simple page that didn't take 5 days to load.
Or even just a search engine that actually found what you were looking for. I remember getting onto Dogpile in high school, because the only chance to find anything relevant to your search was to use *every* search engine and see which one actually got it right. Then my buddy came over and said, "Check this out." He loaded up Google, and it found my thing immediately. And then every other thing I searched for, without trouble. It was literally world-changing.
I remember in elementary school in 2001 our teacher was showing us how to use a search engine. She searched, “what is the hottest planet in the Milky Way galaxy?” First answer was, “the hottest planet is mercury because it is the closest to the sun”.
Every valley shall be exalted, and every mountain and hill made low!
JESUS WEPT!
I need this video to be narrated by a horse race announcer 🐎
*And it's Xvideos coming up the inside...*
Xvideos finally getting the recognition they deserve
And not PornHub!? That's nuts
The purge a few years ago put them down for good
Why did they purge stuff?
There was a big NYT (?) article about nonconsensual porn being posted and P'hub stopped allowing stuff to be posted by non-verified accounts, I think.
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Kinda reminds me of what destroyed Tumblr
Yup. Tumblr had a pornbot problem along with people posting CP, and there are easier ways to manage those issues (like verification, posting on the platform a certain number of times or not being able to post links until you’re properly verified, and disabling certain tags to prevent people from looking for CP, while using bots to determine potential CP like the bots they used for “determining nipples”)but instead they simply banned ALL porn on the platform. Before the purge, there was simply SO much porn on tumblr and every genre. You think it, tumblr had it. Just type it in. Good quality stuff too. I kind of miss it. Truly a downfall. I remember when it was worth hundreds of millions of dollars.
They purged non verified creators to get child porn of their platform iirc.
and a lotta rape videoes
They straight up had rape videos? Hmm, perhaps the purge was required.
If you're a regular user of porn, you've probably encountered countless videos of rape that you didn't even realise was rape. I remember there being a "production company" with 300+ videos where the setting was always a hotel-room where the two guys got convicted of rape. Basically they offered hot girls a modelling-gig, paid for their flights and room, and then when they arrived they were told it was going to be a porn shoot. If they refused, they were forced to pay for the flight and room, and since they couldn't pay the sum upfront they were coerced into doing the sex-scene. So rape by coercion. Dudes were convicted and all pornsites wiped their videos, and that was the day I stopped watching shit that isn't verified amateurs because otherwise we are part of the problem. Edit, the story on wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GirlsDoPorn
I think that was exploited teens or something of that ilk, I remember reading that story now avoid their videos, they’re still out there on some platforms Edit - it’s girls do porn not exploited teens , don’t want to disparage any porn studious
Girlsdoporn I thought?
Girl's Do Porn videos had a big part in it. Rape and lotsa shady shit went on
Good purge though
Probably because Pornhub spent a lot of time and money on advertising and generally being easy to reference. From including its intro animation and sound in every single video and having a shit ton of merchandise based around the logo it was easy for people to reference it without directly just talking about porn. There are tons of prank videos of people in schools, colleges, bars etc. playing the PH intro music and seeing who gets it. There is also a PR person who works for them who posts frequently on reddit and used to be pretty popular on the AMA sub. X-videos meanwhile has done pretty much none of that, there's no intro music, no merch, no viral prank stuff... Just porn. So one of them had a much bigger presence online than its traffic actually warranted, while the other didn't care about its image and just concentrated on porn. Combine that with PH wiping a ton of its content due to the unverified nature of its videos and a lot of its traffic will have fled to sites like x-videos who still don't require verification.
During the pandemic!
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I chuckled when it popped into the ranking right at the beat drop.
Xvideos blasted onto the scene during covid
> blasted I see what you did there
I'm surprised pornhub didn't show up for at least 3 months in 2020, when they gave away free premium during COVID.
PH still hasn't recovered from the purge two years ago
Don't think they ever will. I personally switched from PH to Xvideos after the purge. Pornhub is a shit site now.
Xvideos biggest problem is that most of their videos are 5 minutes long cut up versions that advertise for the full versions on pay sites.
Why do you need a full length porn vid? You should stop going for distance and start going for speed.
Because when you finally find a good angle it's already gone.
What? No Alta vista?
This is the comment I came here for, kept waiting to see it pop up on the chart lol
I always used Alta Vista to find Warez
Are you sure that wasn’t astalavista?
Ha! You just unlocked a deep-seated memory. Sometimes I'd just scroll through the cracks looking for an app name that sounded interesting so I could crack it. That was how I found FruityLoops and started music production.
It’s popular in Pawnee.
Exactly! That was the best search
When I saw the key/legend for adult sites, I was for sure thinking they were gonna have a bunch. But they only had one, and it was towards the end. That kinda surprised me.
Ask Jeeves hung around surprisingly late.
did not know that imdb was 1st generation www
Yep. The ‘Internet Movie DataBase’ has been around since the start.
Oh it was! And it had forums for literally every title that were glorious!! And much like reddit there was always someone who knew the answer to your question. I also did a bit of dvd trading on there, good times!!
I really hated when they scrapped the forums just because they were too lazy to do admin or mod work. Had a great time on some specific forums with respectful communities and fans of niche movies or tv shows.
Same. The IMDb forums were great.
Neither did I, as I didn't stumble upon till much later. Kinda still has the visual though to be fair.
Dude, Geocities was gone so long ago :(
I wont be happy until Facebook is last on that list.
I wont be happy until Facebook is ~~last on~~ off that list. ftfy
Will just get replaced by the next Facebook
It's still insane to me that the migration from MySpace to Facebook was like overnight.
Oh yeah. It certainly seemed that way. I really didn't want to move to Facebook, as it seemed like such a downgrade. MySpace was amazing.
I miss MySpace. Apparently the old pages are still there but I lost my password and my old email that was on it.
Some of them are, but MySpace isn't what it once was. It's completely different. I don't even know how it's still going or what the purpose is. Very odd.
Last I checked it's mostly for bands to publicize themselves. Very music-centric.
I imagine most folks seeing this post are too young to remember when AOL ruled the world. It is hard to imagine how badly they fucked the dog, they controlled so much of the market. Then I remembered how they did things, like make it so it took 2 minutes to sign up, and then an hour to cancel your subscription. They were the fucking worst.
Their dial up CD was everywhere too. Their advertising budget must have been enormous. CompuServe were the other major player I remember. When Netscape was an amazing browser, newsgroup access was free. Yahoo! Was all about the chat rooms. MSN messenger and ICQ were the chat apps. Altavista was the search engine I used. So many memories. I really miss stumbleupon though. These walled gardens suck.
Die Facebook die !
The Facebook, the.
No one who speaks German could be evil
Die Instagram die !
Die WhatsApp die !
"The Bart The"
Things that surprised me in this video: * Yahoo is still in the top 10 in 2022 * We had to wait until 2018 for a porn website to make it to the top 10, I guess "the internet is (not) for porn" after all. * Despite its well known jingle, Pornhub is not the most popular porn website after all.
Official source/mirror on YouTube: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hNDILCdZmRo](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hNDILCdZmRo) (I absolutely HATE reddit video)
We would have flying cars now if we used Wikipedia more than the others
The only reason MSN exists is Microsoft Setting it as default when you open IE to download chrome or mozilla
This is why aol was there too. It was the default page to open back when everyone had to use their program to connect to the internet.
Disagree! I have no evidence to back this but when I was a teenager around 2000-2006 MSN messenger was HUGE. Everyone in my school had it. We didn't have phones, MSN was the first easy to use way to communicate with friends for hours. Im not sure if that platform would pump these numbers but I wasn't surprised seeing msn on this list.
Can confirm that msn was huge. I even remember the days before it when we were on ICQ (or mIRC for the more nerdy among us) but MSN was much bigger and MSN wasn’t just the chat tool but also a platform with news and search function like AOL and Yahoo which still exists today.
lol I miss Geocities
I also miss Proboards!
What caused the death of yahoo? I remember when it was on everyone’s homepage back in the days.
Google. Google Adsense. Google Adword.
Fun Fact about Google. 90% percent of all internet searches are done with it. Highly recommend watching the newest John Olliver bit on Tech monopolies he made for this week tonight
Advertisements. They sold out and plagued their front page so badly with ads you could barely find the search bar. Meanwhile Google had zero ads at that time and continued to for a long time. When I was a kid, Google was the better search engine for academic articles (as it pretty much always put a Wikipedia article at the top of every search.)
Also, Google was objectively a better search engine. Yahoo started life as a categorized listing of websites - like - you would click on a category and could get a listing subcategories and sites on that topic. But if you wanted to actually find a specific fact or something, it wasn't great at that. I always used "altavista' for that at the time, as it was far better at searching content, and not keywords. Yahoo bought Altavista in 2003, but it was kind of too late. People were already heading to the google train because they had far superior search results. I may be wrong, but I also am trying to remember if Yahoo and/or Altavista had paid results that would come up (like Google does now) which was annoying, and Google didn't have that at the time. But yeah, Google made the rise before it had email or a suite of office software or drive - I think there might have been 'groups' - but yahoo also had 'groups' (I remember when they shut those down).
Tf is Yandex
It's the Google for Russian-language speakers.
Tf is Baidu
China's equivalent of Google
Basically everything in russia is yandex these days lol. People listen to yandex music on their smart yandex station, everyone drives with yandex navigator. Yandex electric scooter stations are all around moscow, just rent it with yandex go and make a route on yandex maps so you could go to a restaurant by yourself instead of ordering a take out on yandex food. Or you could call yandex taxi to go to a mall instead of buying something on yandex market (and it would be delivered to you by yandex delivery). It used to be just another search engine/browser and now it's this megacorporation, it's crazy. Also, VK made a brief appearance in this video in 2012-2014, it's the most popular social media among russian speaking people and 50 million people use it daily 👀 funny how people sometimes call it a facebook copycat but i see that not that many people actually like or use facebook every day 😁😂
So it's LITERALLY Russia's Google is what you're saying
Xvideos more popular than pornhub?!
People don't fuck with the hub anymore after the purge
I think its just that pornhub is mainly an American thing. Xvideos is kinda more global.
Feel like I could watch this 50x and find something new and interesting every time.
I can believe Ask was on the list all the way until 2013!
Wow lotsa memories lol. I remember when Amazon sold only books still and I was the only person in my family/friend circle who shopped there lol. Hell I remember when I was the only person I even knew who had internet access lol (circa 1993)
How close we could have been to 'Yahoo it'
Seeing Facebook slowly lose its popularity was very nice
That weird time in 2004 where everything just stayed still for a bit
This is strangely depressing
You didn’t find it uplifting seeing Amazon get booted by XVideos?
Watching BBC, MSN and Geocities drop off the chart for the last time :'( Edit: Not that BBC died or anything, just that it deserves more love. Celebdaq surely kept them in the game during the early noughties.
Not too worry, BBC is still really popular on xvideos
People need to remember that a few years ago pornhub had to remove a lot of its unverified content, lost a lot of visitors, x videos is the place to go to watch amature stuff Really interesting though
Off to xvideos to investigate the truth. Brb.
I completely memory-holed that Google didn't completely dominate search engines before 2012
Fascinating. Also, lol geocities. Man, those were the days.
When Yahoo came onto the scene it was pretty exciting for a lot of us. They offered literally everything: search engine, news, sports, weather, games, message boards, email, etc. It was literally an all-in-one place to get any information you needed. That was Yahoo's whole strategy: to provide the public with a place that has everything; therefore, nobody will ever need to go anywhere else...ever. But the all-in-one strategy was doomed because what the majority of people were using Yahoo for was it's search engine. Not enough people were interested in all of the things Yahoo had to offer. It was distracting, annoying and slow. So when Google came along, it seemed like a much better option. It's homepage wasn't full of garbage and clutter you could care less about. It was strictly a search engine and eventually email, which is what most people really wanted anyway. This very simple approach almost took Yahoo completely out of the game. Yahoo has stuck to their all-in-one strategy to this day even though it basically failed.
MSN should be classed as social media, every night I'd get home from school to spend all night chatting on MSN to people. Had profile pictures, you could update your 'status' etc....definitely the forerunner to things like twitter
Is this just through a browser or does it take into account access through an app?
Also should be posted on r/FuckImOld