Top 20 Websites: 1996 and 2011

Most of us have been on the web over this period and this is an interesting comparison of 1996 and now. Things have changed.

Then And Now: The Most Visited Domains Of 1996 And Today
via SAI by Alyson Shontell

1996:

1. AOL
2. Webcrawler
3. Netscape
4. Yahoo!
5. Infoseek
6. Prodigy
7. Compuserve
8. UMich.edu
9. Primenet
10. Well
11. CMU.edu
12. GNN
13. Then: MCom (the original site of Mozilla),
14. MIT.edu
15. Teleport
16. Geocities
17. Webcom
18. PenthouseMag
19. Excite
20. UIUC.edu

2011:

1. Google sites
2. Webcrawler.com
3. Microsoft sites
4. Facebook
5. AOL
6. Amazon
7. Turner Digital
8. GLAM Media
9. Ask Network
10. Viacom Digital
11. CBS Interactive
12. Apple Inc.
13. Wikimieda sites
14. VEVO
15. eBay
16. NY Times Digital
17. Demand Media
18. Craigslist
19. Comcast Corp.
20. Fox Int. Media

Some never made it despite early popularity.

Stephen