20 websites that changed the world

Sites that revolutionised the way we lead our lives 12 hours ago | Tell us what you think [ 8 comments ] The Yahoo homepage back in 1996, when most of the web was still fields and Google was but a distant dream If there was one site that would change the world for ever, it would be the first ever website, created by internet pioneer Tim Berners-Lee. It went online on 6 August 1991 offering people help with using the brand new 'World Wide Web', rather modestly described as a "wide-area hypermedia information retrieval initiative aiming to give universal access to a large universe of documents". It's now archived at www.tinyurl.com/3apuu. If Berners-Lee had known what was to come, he might have added: "This is going to be awesome!" 2. GeoCities Fascinating as it was back then, the web wasn't a whole lot of fun and after four... [read full story]