Tracking the 20 most popular web sites every year since 1996
@ramani-VR4O43
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Oct 21, 2024
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From Washington Post:
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Our goal is not to confuse or alarm you, but we must, as agents of the news media, speak the truth. And so we say, with all due solemnity, that if it were 16 years ago, you would right now be reading this article at Excite.com.
That’s really one of the best case scenarios. You could also be at Infoseek, or Tripod (what) or Xoom (what?). Because the web in December 1998 was a much different, much lamer place.
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WP talks as though 1996 was prehistoric. I was already 57. Maybe I am prehistoric too. That is how fast technology changes now.
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Our goal is not to confuse or alarm you, but we must, as agents of the news media, speak the truth. And so we say, with all due solemnity, that if it were 16 years ago, you would right now be reading this article at Excite.com.
That’s really one of the best case scenarios. You could also be at Infoseek, or Tripod (what) or Xoom (what?). Because the web in December 1998 was a much different, much lamer place.
Endquote
WP talks as though 1996 was prehistoric. I was already 57. Maybe I am prehistoric too. That is how fast technology changes now.
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