significant in the World Wide Web's history?

http://www.cnn.com/POLLSERVER/results/21953.exclude.html

12/27/2005 4:24:13 PM

99% porn
1% funny videos

12/27/2005 4:26:19 PM

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" Monica Lewinsky scandal 7% 1180 votes"

What the hell does that have to do with the Web?

12/27/2005 4:31:08 PM

all of those choices kinda suck so out of those yeah, I'd say google was up there

12/27/2005 4:32:54 PM

I agree 100% with that.

Google is an amazing technology and without it we would be doomed to those other (awful) search engines and thousands of irrelevant results.

With Google I can find almost anything I search for on the first attempt. Years ago with crap like Lycos, AltaVista, WebCrawler, Excite and such most of the pages were irrelevant or ad-triggered.

12/27/2005 4:41:02 PM

they really did suck didn't they

12/27/2005 4:41:14 PM

Yeah, the shitty choices certainly didn't hurt ...

12/27/2005 4:42:25 PM

It wasn't so bad when dogpile came out.

WorldWideWeb or Mosaic were much more important though.

Cheap access to the home is up there as well IMO.

12/27/2005 4:46:18 PM

prodigy... bitches

12/27/2005 5:22:35 PM

Quote :

"smheath: What the hell does that have to do with the Web?"

Breaking the Lewinsky scandal was how you got Matt Drudge and http://www.drudgereport.com/

12/27/2005 5:29:11 PM

The dotcom boom and bust is far more significant.

I'd also put eBay ahead of Google.

[Edited on December 27, 2005 at 5:42 PM. Reason : .]

12/27/2005 5:42:16 PM

I TOTALLY WOULD HAVE VOTED FOR LIVE 8 ON AOL

12/27/2005 6:07:57 PM

Of the choices the poll gave, perhaps.

What about AOL's rise in the mid 1990s or Netscape's release.

12/27/2005 7:16:38 PM

googles going to bust sooner or later

12/27/2005 7:25:29 PM

I use Yahoo! for everything.

12/27/2005 7:26:08 PM

^^ Could you come up with any more of a generic statement most likely a troll if anything?

12/27/2005 7:38:27 PM

well they are

fuck you

12/27/2005 7:55:57 PM

Quote :

"This QuickVote is not scientific and reflects the opinions of only those Internet users who have chosen to participate. The results cannot be assumed to represent the opinions of Internet users in general, nor the public as a whole. The QuickVote sponsor is not responsible for content, functionality or the opinions expressed therein."

Not to mention this is most likely a non-technical crowd.

12/28/2005 6:42:02 AM

Quote :

"I'd also put eBay ahead of Google."

Really? Let's just say that I don't have e-bay set to my default home page.

12/28/2005 8:10:37 AM

Quote :

"^^ Could you come up with any more of a generic statement most likely a troll if anything?"

i wouldn't mess the dakota_man....he owns teh bu/\/\p3r stickers!!1

12/28/2005 2:25:20 PM

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"Really? Let's just say that I don't have e-bay set to my default home page."

Oh, we're going by which is set to each person's default home page?

In that case, about:blank is my choice.

Yahoo! was set as people's home page long before Google. They were the original Google. Search engines rise to and fall from prominence all the time. As technology grows, one eventually winds up out pacing the current hot engine at the time.

eBay completely revolutionized how the internet was used and was extremely important in it's growth.

Google just changed how easy it was to access information, which while a big deal, doesn't really compare to just how big a deal eBay was to the internet.

[Edited on December 28, 2005 at 2:42 PM. Reason : .]

12/28/2005 2:40:23 PM

i might have to go with the original AOL. I dont know many ppl back in the 90's that had internet that wasn't AOL dialup. I know I had it and it only connected at 14.4

[Edited on December 28, 2005 at 2:44 PM. Reason : can't spell]

12/28/2005 2:43:55 PM

#2. al gore
#3. rumors on the internets

12/28/2005 3:28:10 PM

Lets see:

1) DARPA
2) DARPA
3) DARPA
.......
9) EMAIL
10) P2P
.......
15) PORN
......
20) Google

12/28/2005 3:50:21 PM

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"I dont know many ppl back in the 90's that had internet that wasn't AOL dialup."

Before AOL it was Prodigy.

Everyone used to have Prodigy up until maybe AOL 2.5 or 3.0

12/28/2005 5:15:15 PM

Software Creations BBS what what

12/28/2005 5:21:59 PM

no mention of TWW. Boo.

12/28/2005 5:55:02 PM

i think i got on teh interweb with AOL 2.5, cause i remember 3.0 being alot different...haha and it took like 14 hrs to download.

12/28/2005 6:51:08 PM

99% porn
1% funny videos

12/28/2005 7:02:06 PM

^ o rly?

12/29/2005 8:38:34 AM