1998: Yahoo refused to buy Google for $1 Million 2002: Yahoo refused to buy Google for $5 Billion 2017: Yahoo sold to Verizon for $4.4 Billion 2023: Google market capitalization is $1.28 Trillion

half of those google visits were from me typing words out that I dont know how to spell

I thought Amazon and Netflix overall would have been higher on the list in the last decade and was really surprised they didn't make a bigger jump in 2020

I still remember the day my high school librarian told me about Google back when it first launched. It was so unique because unlike every other site that was flooded with noise (text, photos, pop ups) it was so clean and straight forward.

Imagine living in the world where people would say “Just Yahoo It”

I remember when Yahoo was the dominant force, and the idea of anyone taking them over seemed impossible. The lesson: In business, nothing lasts forever.

Being born in 91 and seeing some of this literally happening before my eyes but not “seeing the big picture” until seeing this video is crazy. I remember when MySpace was HUGE

Sad and frightening how much one company has control over what data we’re exposed to and affect our thought processes so much

Crazy that Google, KZfaq and Facebook have been the three dominant forces of the internet for a decade now

I loved the addition of the important facts throughout the timeline, man! As always, great work!!

I kept expecting to see a huge increase in Amazon traffic during 2020 🤔

I got online in 1996 and remember all those old names. Loved Netscape Navigator. The sudden decline of Geocities in 1999 is interesting and they closed it 10 years later. I used that a lot and web pages were easty to create. No video sites in the 90s as was on dial-up amd everything was slow to load, but seemed normal back then.

What surprises me the most is the amount of people going on Yahoo even in the late 2000’s early 2010’s. I didn’t even know that website was still being massively used that way.

AOL… “Welcome! You’ve got mail!” and a CD-ROM install disk in the mail every other week. Ah yes, the good old dial-up modem days. I can still hear the sounds!

It's interesting to see this information and look back at what I was doing at that time (which wasn't much because I was a kid), but kids after the internet boom will never, ever experience this phenomenon and will never understand or appreciate what it is and how it affects us everyday. They can learn about it, but to people like me who grew up with the internet and seeing things for the first time *ever* and watching it grow, adapt, and improve exponentially, it's indescribable

Again, another fascinating and somehow therapeutic presentation. I’m subscribing!

AOL was bigger than Google, Amazon, Ebay and Yahoo combined at the end of 2000, according to this video. For those not there at the time it is hard to describe its dominance. There is nothing like it now. No one thought they would ever be knocked off their perch since they had been the most visited site every month for the previous 6 years.

This timelines are excellent! Suggestion to the channel’s development team: sometimes you get a bit lost in the relative movement of the bars, when some are growing slower than others and, even though they are still growing, they start to shrink. You could display another dimension of data by putting the growing numbers in blue and the falling ones in red, or put an up or down arrow beside them (I’d prefer the colors, though). Thanks

Turns out the internet is _not_ 90% porno.

A+ video! Fascinating trends and it is so much easier to understanding after seeing these visuals.

japan is singlehandedly still keeping yahoo alive

Frankly it's great to have made a statistical video on the different websites that have marked the history of the internet thank you to you.👏👏👏👏

The amount of ASK Toolbars I've had to uninstall from customers computers while working as tech support explains how they could stick to the top 10 for so long...

This is actually a pretty interesting timeline to see. I still have my AOL account that I created back in the 90s. Even though I do have Google email my AOL is my primary one that I still put on applications or what not as the best way to email me even to this day.

You know, it's crazy. I've left sort of time capsules for myself in the form of saved files going all the way back to my very first computer back in 2002. Before that, I had n64 and ps1, and my mom had a NES. It's insane to think about where we are today, and where we'll be in just 5, 10, or even 20 years. The world is going to be unrecognizable.

Data IS beautiful! You’ve done a wonderful job visualizing it. Thank you.

This is an exciting data review! Thank you. 🙂 I remember those names clear back to 1996.

You can see clearly when the heyday of KZfaq was Vs today. The CEO from 2014 sadly killed the site thank God she's now gone. KZfaq has made it so difficult for creators now, so many hoops to jump through to be 'KZfaq Friendly'😥

It is even more impressive when you figure that Google has owned KZfaq since 2006, so you could combine the top 2 if we are looking at companies and their share of the market.

Got my first email address in college in the fall of 1994, and it was the first time I browsed the "world wide web" which was brand new to me and pretty awesome. I used AOL constantly after college from 1997-2007.

i love these data stats. Please do more. More More. Love them and the music is so relaxing :-)

Crazy how Amazon started in 1996

This low key hit me in the feels. Seeing Google rise, and take out MySpace, and watching all those OG websites just leave the list. Idk why that hurt LOL

This is really fascinating stuff and great work pulling this together. It will be cool to see this in 2030 and beyond!

As someone who got their start in Computer Science and IT, WAY BACK in 1985 (!!!), I appreciate an animation like this. I started in business retail IT sales in 1985 and went into corporate IT around 1990. Those damn AOL CD mailers littering my office desk. Asynchronous dial-up! MCI Mail. Got my employer on the web in 1994-1995 (?). Public IPs all the way to the desktops and no firewall! Saw the first attempts from malware and got firewall religion QUICK. Had no future as a stock investor, because having seen so many dial-up online environments come and go, I thought the WWW was going to be another fad that came and went. BOY DID I GET THAT WRONG!!! The chart spans nearly all of my career. I've seen SO many changes. The replacement of mainframes with PCs. The network. Micro PCs from every contender duking it out. The intro of the GUI. Portable PCs, laptops, handheld organizers, smartphones. Info everywhere in the palm of your hand! It's like I jumped on a surfboard back in 1985 and caught this wave that I've been riding for decades! In this time, life has happened. Got married, had children, got divorced, got married again, had children, got divorced, bought homes, built homes, got married again (!!!). This animation goes back so far that I can't help the feelings of nostalgia. Life is good.

Only Yahoo stayed consistently on the board start to finish. What a fighter

I'd give anything to go back to the glory days of MySpace. It was simpler times, man.

I got on the internet in 97. I had Windows 3.11, Netscape, Yahoo as my homepage, and Hotmail as my main email. I used AOL messenger to chat people people, Yahoo chat rooms to meet people. I remember visiting websites written in pure java and needed JRE installed to view them. I remember the colors, and gif animations and the internet felt more like a multi-media machine in the late 90's than it does today.

Altavista, WebCrawler, Lycos, Excite... I had completely forgotten all those names. What a trip to my 20s.

For most of the list, I was like : "There is no way the HUB is not in the top 10. "

hi! love ur content, what program do u use to visualize this and all data? been looking for a good one but haven't been able to find it so far. Thanks for this great job!

That was absolutely worth ten minutes of my day. I was really looking forward to seeing what happened around March through June 2020. Not as much as expected, but neat to see nonetheless.

I'll just say it: This background tune is lit.

3:23 KZfaq enters the scene! 😊 Late 2005 is when I first discovered KZfaq and wasn't till September 2006 when I successfully made my 1st channel. Good memories... Those were the days ...

Loved the early days of the internet the most. It was so exciting being online

Fantastic... Too good... Luv to see this data... ❤❤❤❤❤😮🙃😳🙂😃😀

I was literally just wondering when you were going to have another video come out. And I looked in there was a new one! Thank you!!♥️

I really appreciate the random important events reminders that pop up.

Excellent video!!! 🤩

~91 BILLION visits a MONTH is a number i can't seem to wrap my head around. And it's crazy that the numbers across the board just kept climbing and climbing for the most part. I guess this is just a result of Internet availability becoming a lot more widespread, and ubiquitous, all around the world. Crazy.

The data is beautiful, indeed 💕

I remember the glory days of Geocities. I thought I'd gotten into the game late and all the best websites were taken... in 1996! 🤣

Google's monopolization needs to be dealt with. Excellent work. Thank you, fellow human!

I’m honestly surprised at how long aol stayed on this list. I graduated college in 2015 and no one I knew ever used aol. Also I would have thought Amazon would be much higher throughout this whole video. Interesting. Also also interesting that xxx sites were ahead of Amazon.

Glad you're back!

I’m beyond astonished in wonder of how you manage to not only find and make these visualizations but correct them. Your contributions are fabulous, keep going dude!

Thats great, very fun. Thank you

Been through all of this. Miss the good ole days. Old eBay, MSN messenger & old KZfaq when it was simple. What's an advertisement on YT? I remember when ad's did start though. Was getting lots of World Of Warcraft ad's, haha

Blown away that not 1 but 2 adult sites are on this list that's crazy

So crazy I remember all those old search engines in the mid 90’s crazy how things and times change , great video

This is really cool. Where did you get the monthly historical data stretching all the way back to 1996, can't find this freely anywhere?

Thanks for the music track !

Yahoo was extremely popular because of the chat rooms, like MSN for the messenger. I miss those days 😞

Amazing video! Good job!

I thought I’d see bebo before Facebook came in and I was waiting for TikTok to make a surge at the end. Great vid though

🔴 and 🟠 being on the top 10 💀

I can't believe I just sat here and watched all that. I couldn't look away.

I admire how Yahoo kept on catching up to the top several times 😃

Thank you so much for coming back after taking a break for a few years. Couple things: It seems like things become really unstable after 2020 for websites. Nobody is really increasing indefinitely anymore they are more so increasing, then decreasing, then increasing back and forth. Interesting. I wonder why that is? Then by 2022 it seems like most websites are in a slow decrease. It'll be interesting to see how the A.I boom of 2023 will start affecting this. I expect to see Bing increase dramatically if their new A.I browser proves to be better than Googles.

This video deserves to win some kind of award. What a masterpiece.

I remember when going on the internet was such a special feeling. The dial up tone, going to the library and getting your 15 minutes of time to see half a pixelated music video load, making a Winamp playlist, Napster… now the internet is a necessity, and it’s used for everything in our lives. It’s way too accessible and it’s incredibly toxic for children. Man do I miss making a geocities website everyday and learning html codes for my MySpace page….

as an absolute nobody who has had over 2 millions visits through social media and my e-commerce sites (one man operation) it's insane to see top runners in late 90's have less than 10 mil visits. The internet has grown

It's depressing it took me a minute to realize that wasn't a wild card but a censored letter. This definitely cleared up a bunch of confusion for me.

Remember seeing those free AOL trial CD-Rs in the checkout line at Walmart in the 90s?

I really like this kind of videos.👍

I was just thinking to make video on this topic... And you did 🔥🤗

Well done ❤

This video made me incredibly nostalgic...

Crazy that AOL hung in there until mid 2014. Didn't know anybody had been to that site in nearly a decade at that point

Honestly AOL hung in there a lot longer than I expected. Shows how much of a flash in the pan MySpace was too.

Crazy how top MSN, yahoo, and AOL and now gone. I remember those days

I have not watched this video but something told me that KZfaq is just gonna sky rocket and stay at the top #1

Just think - Yahoo could've purchased Google for 1 million. That's right... With an M.

Excellent! Thank you.

I think people are forgetting about Default Homepages- which are single handedly keeping sites like MSN and Yahoo on this list. I have, in recent memory, opened a homepage to both those sites (must have been a public computer or my parents or something). Now regarding the porn sites- I am frankly surprised they didn’t make the top 10 until the last few years. It’s kind of insane when you think about how much of it there is. Is the industry really that big? Or is it the same 100 stars with their 100 videos being pushed throughout? I’m gonna go do some research….

WOW SUPERBE VIDEO !!!

It's so interesting looking at this and having lived in that time. For instance I remember when Yahoo instant manager became huge and that made sense it over took MSN but then mid 00s it goes down

Yahoo remains in the top 10 for nearly 3 decades 😮

Anyone else find this video to be incredibly relaxing to watch?

My family used AOL as our main internet browser and internet set up when we had a Windows 98 computer. I can remember, whenever we wanted to use the internet, we would have to disconnect the phones in the household. Also we would be made to suffer the 60 seconds of the internet connection screeching noise every time. Kids these days will never know the pain of the connection noise!

My favorite channel, I was inspired by statistical data and I try to create equally interesting content

I first got on the internet summer '93 or '94. It was in the first 'internet cafe' in my city. I wasn't sure what the internet was for, and I definitely didn't know what I was doing, but I still remember that day. I think I paid US$3 for one hour.

My biggest surprise was when Yahoo made that one comeback.

Remember when KZfaq came out. My brother and I used it a lot back then. Early 2000s of great.

@DataIsBeautifulOfficial , for your next video, you should do most translated websites in the world. So everyone can see the rankings.

Social media creeping in 2000’s and onwards surely the worst thing that’s happen in my generations life time!

I remember getting my Facebook account back in 2007! It was nice back then, much simpler.

When broadband internet was introduced in the 2000s (Road Runner High-Speed Online, AOL Broadband, etc.), many people no longer needed to have their landline phone share a line with their slow dial-up connection. Broadband internet relied on the same coaxial cables that fed cable TV into your home in order to get you onto the worldwide web faster...

Perhaps the most important video on the world wide web.

The opportunity in the late 90s was mind boggling. We just have to imagine that a brand new opportunity exists with AI. Will Google be the new AOL? It's hard to believe that they could get any more dominant, so maybe Google isn't a safe bet anymore.