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Burning Justice

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Oct 25, 2017
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I'd probably have put Google at #1 over Wikipedia, but otherwise I totally agree with the top 3.

The Onion does belong on the list somewhere, but at #4 it is way too high. Facebook, meanwhile, should be in the top 10.
 

Irminsul

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Oct 25, 2017
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The Onion is indeed way too high. But I fully agree with Wikipedia as #1. It comes closest to the original ideas and ideals behind the WWW and has maintained that for an impressively long amount of time. It didn't even become shit at one point, either through changing its contents or its UI! Very few websites have managed that, so that's quite a feat.
 

SirNinja

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List is in good shape but needs work. The absences of Fark and YTMND are the biggest issues. Some sites are way too high on the list as well; as much as I love The Onion, it wasn't that influential in shaping the internet.
 

Leek

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Oct 25, 2017
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What has The Onion done for the internet that could be considered significant? Especially more so than any contributions from the likes of Ebay, Twitter, Reddit or Facebook.

Internet Archive is a good one in the top 10 that I probably wouldn't have thought of, though.
 

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Google should be #1. Yes, Wikipedia is massive and fantastic, but what does everyone use to get there? Google.
 

Hella

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Oct 27, 2017
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Wookiepedia over Memory Alpha? This is a grave injustice.

I don't think there is another wiki with more detailed minutiae, except Wikipedia itself.
 

Deleted member 13642

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Oh my god, eBaum's world. I remember hating that site with every fiber of my being, but I can't for the life of me remember why.
 

Qikz

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Oct 25, 2017
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Oh my god, eBaum's world. I remember hating that site with every fiber of my being, but I can't for the life of me remember why.

They stole all their content from everywhere else.

I would put newgrounds above ebaumsworld for sure. YTMND should definitely be on there. Maybe even weebls-stuff for the memes. Like, weebs-stuff memes were everywhere for YEARS.
 

Sei

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Oct 28, 2017
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Nice they included Digg, without it there be no Reddit or YouTube or xkdc or any other meme generating site. If you got a popular meme on Digg, it was better than any web advertising you could possibly do at the time.
 

Kyuuji

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Nov 8, 2017
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Google should be #1. Yes, Wikipedia is massive and fantastic, but what does everyone use to get there? Google.
True, though I'm mainly using it as a lazy way of finding the article. If Google vanished tomorrow I'd just go to the domain and search within Wikipedia. If Wikipedia disappeared tomorrow I couldn't use Google with the same reliance I do it, to find easily accessible and mostly reliable content with immediate ties to anything of relevant interest from it.

If Google vanished you could use nearby competitors for the most part. Not nearly as accurate or useful results on the whole for sure, but nowhere near the loss if Wikipedia suddenly went down. That's not to undermine or devalue to the use of Google and its ability to handle numerous queries so well, more to credit Wikipedia for really having no rival or alternative with anywhere near the same accessibility and usefulness.
 

Deleted member 4247

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True, though I'm mainly using it as a lazy way of finding the article. If Google vanished tomorrow I'd just go to the domain and search within Wikipedia. If Wikipedia disappeared tomorrow I couldn't use Google with the same reliance I do it, to find easily accessible and mostly reliable content with immediate ties to anything of relevant interest from it.

If Google vanished you could use nearby competitors for the most part. Not nearly as accurate or useful results on the whole for sure, but nowhere near the loss if Wikipedia suddenly went down. That's not to undermine or devalue to the use of Google and its ability to handle numerous queries so well, more to credit Wikipedia for really having no rival or alternative with anywhere near the same accessibility and usefulness.

Sure, but none of that changes the fact that everyone uses Google all the time.
 

Rand a. Thor

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Oct 31, 2017
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Ebaums and Newgrounds on there, but no Albino Blacksheep or Funnyjunk? Albino was basically the flash youtube before even Newgrounds, and Funnyjunk was the progenitor to 9gag. In fact, where IS 9gag?
 

Kevers

The Fallen
Oct 29, 2017
14,566
Syracuse, NY
Oh my god, eBaum's world. I remember hating that site with every fiber of my being, but I can't for the life of me remember why.
They stole all their content from everywhere else.

I would put newgrounds above ebaumsworld for sure. YTMND should definitely be on there. Maybe even weebls-stuff for the memes. Like, weebs-stuff memes were everywhere for YEARS.

A Neil Cicierega song that was very much used for YTMND sums up the entire situation.
 

Zed

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Oct 28, 2017
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Ebaumsworld's world deserves to be on the list, but they need to mention how they got famous by stealing stuff.
 

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Wikipedia totally deserve that top spot as it's a great tool to get information and a great starting point for further reading, though one of my uni lecture championed Wikipedia and disagreed with that students can't cite from it in their essay.

NeoGAF gotta be on it though right? It was kinda big deal.

Even though its absolute garbage now.

Why would they put a shit website on the list? Neogaf is an insignificant little forum that had zero impact on the internet as a whole.
 

-Pyromaniac-

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Oct 25, 2017
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Maddox was one of the first popular snarky cunts that a lot of internet personas have taken on since then. I'd throw that on there too.
 
Oct 27, 2017
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I think Hotmail is way too low. Web-based email was a huge turning point for the way basic communication over the internet functions.
 

PopsMaellard

The Fallen
Oct 27, 2017
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Totally agree with Wayback Machine/Internet Archive and Wikipedia. They're so good for researching old obscure stuff that has since been removed from the net.




Tumblr is literally the Deviantart + Fanfiction.net combo of our time. It's literally a hub of memes and female-oriented fandoms that don't get traction on places like Reddit or 4chan.

And goddamn does Tumblr have some fire fucking memes. I love the good side of tumblr.
 

alexlf

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Nov 1, 2017
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SA and 4chan both need to be much higher. They created 90% of the internet culture there is today; Hell, they created the modern concept of internet culture. Good selection of websites over all, bad order. Echoing others, but wikipedia being number 1 is definitely on point though.
 

Zed

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Oct 28, 2017
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SA and 4chan both need to be much higher. They created 90% of the internet culture there is today; Hell, they created the modern concept of internet culture. Good selection of websites over all, bad order. Echoing others, but wikipedia being number 1 is definitely on point though.

I mostly agree, but sometimes I think people overestimate how influential they are, there are so many websites that influenced the web that barely have a trace anymore. For example, they mentioned GameFAQ's LUE, which during its heyday was like an early version of 4chan that spawned a lot of internet culture. However well over 99% of it doesn't exist anymore and is probably lost forever. It was around well before people really archived websites and took screenshots so only a few examples from it survive.

I'm sure there are tons of other influential websites that exist that are practically lost to history.

On the other hand SA has an archive and 4chan has some of it archived and people take many screenshots of what happens there.

Also, The Onion is up waaaaaayyy to high on the list. Additionally, its funny they only mention one token porn site, if they were being honest there probably would be way more on the list.
 

Handicapped Duck

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May 20, 2018
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Shocked at no Miniclip.com since that, Newgrounds, armorgames, and addictinggames were my go-to sites for flash games back in the early-mid 2000s.
 

GeeseHoward

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Oct 25, 2017
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For better or worse, 4chan belongs way higher on that list, it's one of the most influential websites in defining internet cultute. Something awful should also be top 20 ez.

Number 1 and 2 aren't debatable though, completely changed the landscape