Data is Beautiful gives us a moving timeline of the most popular websites based on monthly visitors, starting in 1996. That was not long after I started regular internet use, after a disastrous flirtation with CompuServe in the '80s. It starts out with AOL and Yahoo! dominating everything else, and you might be surprised at how recently today's online giants made their move up the ladder. -via Digg
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It's a mesmerizing presentation. Takes a while to appreciate that entities can move down in the rankings even while the absolute number of visits is rising because the scale is proportional.
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Is that a question? MySpace was on there from 2004 to 2009, peaking in 2006.
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Myspace?
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