With each passing year, an increasingly large segment of the population no longer remembers images loading a single pixel row at a time, the earsplitting sound of a 56k modem, or the early domination of web portals.
❗ FUN FACTS ❗
➡️ In 1998, many of the top websites were news aggregators or search portals, which are easy concepts to understand.
➡️ Today, brand touch-points are often spread out between devices (e.g. mobile apps vs. desktop) and a myriad of services and sub-brands (e.g. Facebook’s constellation of apps).
➡️ Result: The world’s biggest websites are complex, interconnected web properties.
The visualization below looks at which of the internet giants have evolved to stay on top, and which have faded into internet lore.
Source & Credit: Visual Capitalist