{"id":49009,"date":"2014-12-17T22:18:32","date_gmt":"2014-12-18T05:18:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/12\/17\/its-the-most-wonderful-sites-of-the-years.html"},"modified":"2014-12-17T22:18:32","modified_gmt":"2014-12-18T05:18:32","slug":"its-the-most-wonderful-sites-of-the-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/12\/17\/its-the-most-wonderful-sites-of-the-years.html","title":{"rendered":"It&#039;s the Most Wonderful Sites of the Years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Top 20 web site owners each year since 1996. Oh, this dredges up some memories &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"sm2wpreshared\">Originally shared by <a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101083456815352083930'>+Amit Singhal<\/a>:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>I remember almost all sites that were popular in 1996. Now I suddenly feel very old :-(.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"sm2wp\"><p>\n<a style='display:inline;' href='http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/the-intersect\/wp\/2014\/12\/15\/from-lycos-to-ask-jeeves-to-facebook-tracking-the-20-most-popular-web-sites-every-year-since-1996\/'><br \/>\n<img src='https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/proxy\/3LQhmVNmNHQ-Bkzevbl3U0WM6NW2AXLTXKhXEeTgeIRuz-L_4ZQ2LXhAyowNn_SBETm1RTRWtbznI9_HtPNnnG7oPJtFlWIdnjiPL8Cn5XwFGC2bSY7lHyvlod2pTAKBiUyz-RqKhkpEGVtlACLSX8gWWSBAcVUfWTbJJgqVhfMRST-EmKLAAKugm9gztnS7hgD1Y3t5SxOjRZvLFUufnPIBGtH-iO_H6-_88A=w506-h303-p' border='0' style='max-width:650px;'\/><br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\n<span style='font-size:large;'><a href='http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/the-intersect\/wp\/2014\/12\/15\/from-lycos-to-ask-jeeves-to-facebook-tracking-the-20-most-popular-web-sites-every-year-since-1996\/'>From Lycos to Ask Jeeves to Facebook: Tracking the 20 most popular web sites every year since 1996<\/a><\/span><br \/>\nWe may live in the era of Google right now, but it wasn&#8217;t always that way.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style='font-size:small;'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101083456815352083930\/posts\/PuRyY2sSvYb'>View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Top 20 web site owners each year since 1996. Oh, this dredges up some memories &#8230; Originally shared by +Amit Singhal: I remember almost all sites that were popular in 1996. Now I suddenly feel very old :-(. From Lycos to Ask Jeeves to Facebook: Tracking the 20 most popular web sites every year &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/12\/17\/its-the-most-wonderful-sites-of-the-years.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;It&#039;s the Most Wonderful Sites of the Years&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49009","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":128428,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/10\/24\/movie-review-the-rock-1996.html","url_meta":{"origin":49009,"position":0},"title":"Movie Review: &quot;The Rock&quot; (1996)","author":"***Dave","date":"Sat 24-Oct-15 7:55pm","format":false,"excerpt":"When every explosion could mean DOOM, can Sean Connery and Nicholas Cage take down rebel Marines out to expose a government conspiracy? 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