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Webby Awards Lists the Millennium's Top 10 Web Moments

by Caleb Johnson on November 20, 2009 at 04:31 PM

With the decade coming to a close in less than two months, expect to see plenty of "Best of" lists. It's awful fun to think back on marquee moments from years past, especially when those moments occurred on our beloved Internet. Plus, it's shocking to recall just how much the Web has changed since the start of the millennium. In that spirit, the Webby Awards has released its list of "The Ten Most Influential Internet Moments of the Decade."

The moments, which are listed in chronological order, begin with Craigslist's 2000 expansion from a San Francisco exclusive service to the largest free classifieds site on the Web. From there, Napster met its demise in 2001, the same year Wikipedia launched and changed the way we got information. A few years later, in 2006, online video became cooler than sliced bread thanks to YouTube. Shortly thereafter, Facebook became open to non-college students in 2006 (much to our chagrin), and Twitter started its climb to the top of the social networking ladder.

There are a few others on the list, too, but we think the Webbies left out a moment or two. We know MySpace isn't the giant it once was, but it at least deserves a mention. After all, it changed the way we discovered music on the Web. Plus, how can we ignore the phenomenon that is LOLCats? Love them or hate them, they're a juggernaut.

The most fun part about these "Best of" lists, though, is wondering what the next decade will look like. We'll leave it up to all you amateur soothsayers to make some predictions in the comments. [From: The Webby Awards]

Tags: craigslist, facebook, internet, list, napster, socialnetworking, top, web, webby, wikipedia, youtube

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