Article Written By: Virginia Chou
The Internet, known as ARPANET, was brought online in 1969. The Internet was designed to provide communication between networks. The early Internet was used by computer experts, engineers, scientists, and librarians. There was nothing friendly about it. There were no home or office personal computers in those days, and anyone who used it, whether a computer professional or an engineer or scientist or librarian, had to learn to use a very complex system.
Here are 10 websites that are defining tomorrow's web:1) Craigslist is a first top classified ads website. Craigslist provides local classifieds and forums for jobs, housing, for sale, personals, services, local community, and events. This is a website where you can advertise to buy and sell things.Today there are many classified sites that came into existence and are popular after craigslist. 2) Hotmail was the first major email providers in 1996. Other early email providers included Yahoo's email service. In 2004 Google entered the crowded arena of email providers. But now there are many email service providers like AOL, GMX etc.3) Twitter is currently the most popular micro blogging site online. However aside from it, there are also other micro blogging sites that have their own poll of members and great services. These sites are Plurk, Sweetter, Microblogger, Yammer and Tumbler.4) Amazon is the best leading E-commerce sites and becomes an instant player in any category. Amazon is the anchor store for all online shopping. There are many sites that goes after Amazon.com, are Bestbuy.com, Dell.com, iqvc.com etc.5) Youtube is the first Video sharing services and has crept onto the Web in recent years and is still making names for their video-hosting platforms. It has become the clear leader in online video sharing. And now many other sites are also providing video sharing like google.com, yahoo.com, Photobucket.com.6) eBay has become the world leader in the online auction field with more items and categories than any of its competition. Other auction sites that are popular after eBay are ubid.com, bidz.com etc.7) BBC is the world's best news site that covers news from local to international, and from individual events to feature coverage. Taking BBC into consideration many news sites were launched. Among them Headlinesglobe.com is one of the latest news related sites that provides up to date information regarding everything going on from local to international.8) FaceBook Was initially intended for college students, it branched out, and now allows everyone membership. 150 million members and growing fast.9) AdsGlobe is redefining the free classifieds marketplace. It allows to place free ads in most of the world cities and towns. It integrated well into the major social networking sites. Its premium ads provide most value a business dollar can buy.10) Google Last but not least. The most sophisticated search engine is only getting better day by day.For top deals and coupons check out DealsGlobe.com - free classified ads
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