It would be interesting to talk about web applications and services in terms of the year they “graduated” and went public to the world. IMDB was ‘90; Amazon.com was ‘95; Movable Type was ‘01; WordPress.org and Typepad were Class of ‘03; Gmail was ‘04; WordPress.com, Akismet, Youtube, TechCrunch, and pbwiki were ‘05; bbPress, Amazon S3, and Twitter were ‘06; Pownce was ‘07, etc. It’d also be cool to see a timeline of major web apps. ¶
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Leonid Mamchenkov | December 17th, 2007 @ 1:10 am |
Nice idea for yet another blog.
Each service can have a post of its own. Publishing date of the post can be the date that the service went public. A custom theme optimized for archives could present a nice looking timeline…
Niklas Saers | December 17th, 2007 @ 1:35 am |
Termination dates would also be interesting. What major apps were there that are no longer around, or have faded away and are no longer to be seen unless you go just for nostalgia or use the WayBackMachine of archive.org
Leonid Mamchenkov | December 17th, 2007 @ 2:06 am |
Niklas,
I guess those that really mattered are all here, in one form or another
Robert | December 17th, 2007 @ 4:21 am |
Hi Matt,
try this site for creating timelines: http://xtimeline.com/
Greetings,
Bob
Duncan Shannon | December 17th, 2007 @ 6:49 am |
So it’s been a while (2001)… but this used to be pretty funny:
http://www.ebituaries.whirlycott.com/
“The Final Homepages of New Economy Startups”
Duncan
Dougal Campbell | December 17th, 2007 @ 9:10 am |
Wow, I had completely forgotten that IMDB predated the web
For others who are interested, here’s the history.
Ray | December 17th, 2007 @ 9:32 am |
God you’re nihilistic. Of all of those sites you operate, I’d say none of them are in the same class as those other sites.
Matt | December 17th, 2007 @ 10:27 am |
Ray, thanks! Bonus points for misuse of “nihilistic.”
Ray | December 17th, 2007 @ 3:01 pm |
K I meant narcissistic
Ramiro | December 17th, 2007 @ 3:01 pm |
I still like you Ray
Ben Tremblay | December 17th, 2007 @ 7:29 pm |
Omidyar started eBay in ‘95 … does that count as an app?
Or how about Ward and “wiki”? “I have located some early mail that indicates wiki went public in 3/95.” Or Real … “That led RealNetworks, Inc. to invent and release the RealPlayer and RealAudio in 1995. (Does anybody here recall ReadSlideshow? I like it … a lot.)
@Robert – MIT’s SIMILE|Timeline … hard to beat.
Matt | December 17th, 2007 @ 7:35 pm |
eBay totally works, I wasn’t trying to make a definitely list, but someone should.
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Dhruva Sagar | December 17th, 2007 @ 11:42 pm |
I love the idea!
It would be cool to have a dynamic graphically represented presentation of all such web service and we could even show them with respect to their popularity!
I think that would be cool and being able to update it with new apps coming up would be cool, what say??
Shamus | December 18th, 2007 @ 9:56 am |
I can’t resist throwing out a link to the “History of the Internet”:
http://www.shamusyoung.com/lemon/issues/timeline.php
dave shields | December 18th, 2007 @ 10:55 am |
In my view the most meaningful “web app” of 2007 is the XO Laptop and all the open-source that comes with it, and especially its ability to run Sahana.
thanks,dave
Klas Henrik | December 19th, 2007 @ 4:13 am |
In my opinion, bbpress deserves am extra mentioning, as well as PurposeGames.
I utilize them both for different purposes. bbpress for my forums (three and counting) and PurposeGames for school stuff. I think that both of these apps deserves a bigger crowd though. bbpress especially seems at a standstill.
I guess akismet gets an implicit mentioning now since the beauty of bbpress comes, in part, from its utilization of akismet.
Kevin Day | December 20th, 2007 @ 10:15 am |
At the end of each year, the graduating classes of applicaitons should vote for “Most Likely to Succeed” and “Class Clown.”
Cody Sortore | December 21st, 2007 @ 9:02 am |
Haha awesome! I graduated the same year as Wordpress.com and Youtube!! Woot! Go class of ‘05