Googleįounded in 1994, Yahoo started off as a web directory that was originally called “Jerry and David’s Guide to the World Wide Web.” Rankīut when broadband internet hit the market and made dial-up obsolete, AOL lost its footing, and a new website took the top spot-Yahoo. For context, there were about 413 million internet users around the world at that time. By June 2000, the online portal was getting over 400 million monthly visits. There were several different portals in the 1990s for internet use, such as Prodigy and CompuServe, but AOL quickly became the most popular.ĪOL held its top spot as the most visited website for nearly a decade. It was possible to go on the proto-internet as early as the 1970s, but the more user-centric and widely accessible version we think of today didn’t really materialize until the early 1990s using dial-up modems.ĭial-up gave users access to the web through a modem that was connected to an active telephone line. This animated graphic by James Eagle provides a historical look at the evolution of the internet, showing the most popular websites over the years from 1993 to 2022.
Fast forward to 2022, and that figure has grown to 2 billion. In 1993, there were fewer than 200 websites available on the World Wide Web.
Over the last three decades, the internet has grown at a mind-bending pace.
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