There are many websites that could be considered a spectacular contribution to the internet. But here are the seven greatest, in my opinion.
#1 Google
This is the top wonder because at times, well, it has actually made me gasp as if I was seeing the aurora borealis. Shock and awe, thats what it is. For instance, recently I used the new “drag and drop” feature in Gmail to add an attachment. It was beautiful. Its strange to realize how “everyday” it is now to do a “street view” of your own house in google maps. Google just makes things that should have existed already.
#2 Wikipedia
The concept of it is great. Now, while we can never accept any article as absolute “truth”, at least it is a good reference for what people in general believe about a certain subject.
#3 Facebook
Sorry myspace etc. this one is my pick. Why? My mom is not on myspace, but shes on facebook. It has reached across all barriers to connect us. It is a simple, clean interface that makes wasting time online easy.
#4 Youtube
Anyone “lucky” enough can get famous off of this! We are all on a level playing field now. You don’t have to have any special connections in hollywood, just be someone like the starwars kid or make the harry potter puppet pals.
#5 Craigslist
Never has such a simple looking website done so much. Text & text links. Thats pretty much it. But man, what a smorgasbord of funny posts, useless banter, and crazy classifieds. Its a good thing some people can still use it for legitimate, time-saving, or otherwise helpful things, like finding a bunch of moving boxes for free.
#6 This is a tie: Blogger/Wordpress
Imagine that everyone in the world got to write their own book. Without an editor, spellchecker, etc. That is what we have. Blogs everywhere (what? this is not!)
#7 Ebay
The thing that really wows me about it is, you can find pretty much whatever you want on there.
Anyway, those are my current 7 wonders of the web. What are yours? Why?
I like it, very nice collection of sites. I think there must be some kind of dating site (match.com?) that would be on my list. Also you are probably right about the myspace/facebook thing, facebooks seems a lot easier to navigate, plus with myspace the profile seems to get decorated more than filled with content IMO.
Thats true, I think a lot of users get too caught up in the customization of their myspace page. But to each his own, that is one aspect that makes myspace very popular.