Some of these sites are still around, ones that you might remember, and both might give you a little nostalgia.Įbaum’s World is a perfect example of a site that was a precursor to many happenings on the internet today. Below, we are going to dive into a couple sites that shaped the Internet as we know it today. Go to the 2nd page and it took what you were looking for to another level.
Type in the craziest thing into Ask Jeeves (remember that?), AOL, and even Google and the first couple results were usually exactly what you were looking for. It was a censorship free anything goes attitude where you could find whatever you wanted with ease. The late 90’s and 2000’s was the wild west for the internet. For better or for worse, the internet is where we go to get a lot of our information, ideas, and more. You got to experience the world before the world wide web, smart phones, and social media came crashing into our lives.
All jokes aside, if you are under the age of 40, the internet has probably been a part of your daily life for most of your life. If you cannot find what you are looking somewhere on the internet, then what is going on here? We have had since the early 1990’s to learn how to use this thing. A place where you experience information (or misinformation), chaos, and can find almost anything you are looking for. With almost 5 billion users, a little over 198 million active websites, and 1.86 billion websites overall, the internet is huge.
