The 18 Best Websites of All Time
Search engines, marketplaces, encyclopedias and one classifieds board that never changed its font.
1Google
The search engine that became the default front door to the internet.
2YouTube
The video platform that turned uploading into a career.
3Wikipedia
A free encyclopedia written and policed by volunteers.
4Amazon
The online bookstore that grew into the world's storefront.
5Facebook
The social network that put nearly half the planet on one site.
6Reddit
A sprawl of forums that calls itself the front page of the internet.
7Craigslist
A deliberately ugly classifieds board that outlived every redesign.
8eBay
The auction site that proved strangers would ship each other things.
9Netflix
Mail-order DVDs that became the template for streaming.
10X (Twitter)
The short-post feed where news broke before the newsrooms had it.
11Instagram
A photo app that rewrote how a generation presents itself.
12IMDb
The film and TV database that settles arguments about casts and credits.
13Stack Overflow
The question-and-answer site holding up a large share of working software.
14Internet Archive
A nonprofit library preserving the web through the Wayback Machine.
15Twitch
Live streaming built around game broadcasts and their chat rooms.
16LinkedIn
The professional network that turned the resume into a feed.
17Yahoo
The hand-curated directory that organized the early web.
18MySpace
The customizable profile page that taught a generation basic HTML.
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