Website Wars: Who Ruled the Internet? (1993-2025 Animated Race)

🌐 The internet’s throne has changed hands VIOLENTLY! This animated bar race reveals which websites dominated—and crashed—over 30+ years, from AOL’s dial-up empire to TikTok’s 2025 dominance.

🔍 Key Moments:

✅ 1995-2002: AOL/Yahoo’s golden age ($3.6B revenue peak)

✅ 2004: Google’s IPO changes the game

✅ 2025: TikTok dethrones Google (2.5B MAUs!)

✅ Plot twist: Wikipedia survives EVERY era!


📊 Data Sources:

1993-2005: Wayback Machine, SEC filings

2006-2020: SimilarWeb, ComScore

2021-2025: eMarketer projections


⏱️ Chapters:

0:00 - 1993: The first website (yes, it’s boring)

1:15 - 2004: Google’s "Don’t Be Evil" rise

2:10 - 2025: TikTok’s AI-powered takeover

2:55 - Who died? (RIP GeoCities, MySpace)


👇 Comment: Which website do YOU miss most?

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📌 Tags: #InternetHistory #WebsiteWars #GoogleVsTikTok #ViralData #RIPMySpace