List of websites
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This is a list of websites that are famous, notable, or extremely popular.
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0-9
- 2channel: biggest Japanese internet forum
- 4chan: English imageboard
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A
- A9.com: Amazon.com's search engine
- About.com: Information and articles by category
- Accoona: Search engine
- Adequacy.org: Satire
- AddALL: Bookseller meta-search
- Adtunes: Info about songs used in TV advertisements
- Ain't It Cool News: Film reviews
- Airliners.net: Commercial aviation photos
- Albino Blacksheep: Media and developer information
- Alexa: Web site traffic reports
- Alibaba.com: E-commerce / auction company
- All Media Guide: Music, movie and video game information
- Allpoetry: Community poetry website
- AltaVista: Search engine
- Amazon.com: Online retailer
- AmIAnnoying.com: Rank celebrities by their annoyance factor
- Amiga Games Database: Fan reviews of Amiga games.
- anothercodelabs.co.uk: Video game site for Another Code and Survival Kid (Lost In Blue) Series Games.
- Antiwar.com: antiwar site
- ARTISTdirect: Music website
- Ask.com: Search engine
- Audioscrobbler: online music tracking and recommendation
- Avigsidan: Swedish humour
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B
- B3ta: Humor
- Baazee.com: Auction, shopping
- Bash.org: IRC quote database
- Bechna.com: India's premier classifieds
- BBC.co.uk: The BBC's web portal, featuring news and other information.
- BBspot: Geek satire and humour
- Bert is Evil : Humor
- The Best Page in the Universe: A personal humor website created by a self-proclaimed pirate
- BigBlueBall: Instant messaging news and support
- Big Cartoon DataBase: An online cartoon database
- Big Comic Book DataBase: An online comic book database
- Bitzi: User-submitted reports about digital files
- Blogger.com: Weblog tool, affiliated with Google
- Boing Boing: A popular weblog
- BookCrossing: Book swapping and tracking
- BookFinder.com: Bookstore meta-search engine
- Boxrec.com: Boxing records
- Bravenet: Very large Web Hosting provider, in the top 500
- The Brick Testament: The Bible illustrated in LEGO
- Broadcast.com: Web radio and content provider, purchased by Yahoo! in 1999
- BugMeNot: Bypassing other websites' compulsory registration
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C
- Canadian Money Tracker: Tracks Canadian paper money
- CBC Radio Three: Streaming media
- Cdfreaks: CD and DVD news and reviews
- Christian Apologetics and Research Ministry: A Christian counter-cult website with a popular forum
- Christian Forums: A large Christian Internet forum
- Classface: social networking
- Club-Siemens: Communities for cell-phone users
- Cockeyed.com: Humor
- Collegehumor.com: College-themed humor articles and photos
- Connecticut Conservative: Popular Connecticut-based political weblog
- CNET: Technology news
- craigslist: Local community advertising and forums
- Cricinfo: A very popular cricket website
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D
- Daily Kos: Liberal blog
- Daring Fireball: Mac advocacy
- Darwin Awards: Humor
- DeadJournal: Weblog community
- del.icio.us: Social bookmarks
- Democratic Underground: Left-wing Internet forum
- degree confluence project
- deviantART: A community of artists submitting visual artwork and literature
- Diary-X: Online journaling
- Digg: Social bookmarks
- Digital Spy: Leading UK media and entertainment site
- Direct.gov.uk: UK government web portal
- Dogpile: Search engine
- Don Markstein's Toonopedia: Online cartoon encyclopedia
- Doomworld: A news and information site about the computer game Doom
- Drudge Report: Collection of news headlines.
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E
- eBay: Online auctions
- Ecologyfund.com: Click-to-donate site
- EBaum's World: Humor/entertainment portal with flash games and movies
- Ekşi Sözlük: Collaborative Turkish dictionary
- Everything2: Online community and publisher
- Emotion Eric: 'Eric Conveys An Emotion.'
- Encyclopedia Astronautica: Space travel reference
- Entrez: Biomedical databases
- Epinions.com: Consumer opinions about products
- EvoWiki: Evolution textbook and encyclopedia
- Excite: Web portal
- explodingdog: Original illustrations inspired by viewer emails
- EZBoard: Large Internet forum provider
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F
- Facebook: College networking site, modelled after real facebooks
- FactCheck.org: Debunking false claims by American politicians
- Fade To Black: Humor zine
- Fark.com: Weird and unusual news
- FanFiction.Net: fan fiction database
- Flash Player: Flash animations and games
- Flickr: Photo management
- Free Republic: Conservative Internet forum
- FreshMeat.net: Notices of new computer programs
- Friendster: Social network
- FunBrain.com: Educational site
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G
- Gaia Online: Custom anime-based avatars and forums
- GameFAQs: Video game FAQs and forums
- Gametap: TBS-sponsored website that allows users to play classic arcade games
- GeoCities: Free web hosting service
- Goldenpalace.com: Online casino renowned for publicity stunts
- Globewide Network Academy: Distance learning directory
- Gmail: Free e-mail service from Google
- Gmane: mail to news gateway
- GMTV: Breakfast TV website and general interest
- godhatesamerica.com: Website run by controversial Southern Baptist minister Fred Phelps that links American disasters to the wrath of God.
- Google: Search engine
- Groklaw: A blog on legal issues focusing on Open Source
- Gumtree: Local classified ads and community site for UK cities
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H
- H2G2: Collaborative encyclopedia project
- Habbo Hotel: A popular chat.
- HeavenGames: Gaming website
- Homestar Runner: Flash humor cartoons and games
- Hotmail: Webmail service
- Hot or Not: Picture ratings
- HowStuffWorks: Website designed to explain how "stuff" works.
- Huuto.net: A Finnish auction website.
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I
- ibiblio: Online library
- iFilm: Various video clips
- IGN: Video games
- ImageShack: Image hosting service
- Indiatimes: Indian News Portal
- Infinite Cat Project: A project for photographing cats
- infoAnarchy, infoAnarchy wiki: Copyright, cyber rights issues
- Infowars: Site claiming to expose a New World Order conspiracy
- Insecula: Large French language art resource
- Instapundit: Libertarian/conservative blog
- Internet Archive: Web archive
- Internet Infidels: The Secular Web
- Internet Movie Database: Film database
- ISBNdb.com: ISBN database built from libraries data
- The Inquirer: Information technology news
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J
- Jennifer Government: NationStates: Browser game loosely based on novel Jennifer Government
- JibJab: Site that posts cartoons that poke fun at political events or people, most notably the 2004 Presidential Election and George W. Bush
- Jokaroo: Humor/entertainment portal with pictures and movies
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K
- Keepers of Lists: Humor list website.
- Kingdom of Loathing: Popular browser-based game
- Kings of Chaos: Popular browser-based game
- Kuro5hin: Technology weblog
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L
- Lakes to Locks: About points of interest in northeastern New York.
- Landover Baptist Church: Satire of Fundamentalist Christianity
- Language Construction Kit: Guide for beginners to creating personal languages
- Language Log: A language blog run by a group of linguists
- LatestDiscountVouchers.co.uk: UK website listing online discount vouchers
- Latvians.lv: Latvian nationalists portal
- LiveJournal: Weblog community
- Literary Kicks: about literary movements
- Little Fluffy Industries: Web games portal
- Little Green Footballs: Large right-leaning blog/forum
- Lycos: Search engine
- LunarStorm: The largest Swedish virtual community
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M
- MacCentral: Apple Macintosh news
- MapQuest: Road maps
- Marxists Internet Archive: Multi-lingual Internet archive.
- MathWorld: Extensive mathematics reference
- MediaLens: "Media Alerts"
- MetaFilter: "Community weblog"
- Million Dollar Homepage: University student sells 1 million pixels of his website for $1 each
- MIT OpenCourseWare: Freely available course materials from MIT
- Modern Humorist: Humor zine
- MoveOn.org: Liberal political action committee
- MozBin: Defunct site offering precomplied Mozilla builds
- mozdev.org: Free hosting of Mozilla-based projects
- MozillaZine: Mozilla news and discussion
- MP3.com: Music website
- MSN.com: Microsoft internet service provider and web portal
- Mugglenet: The largest Harry Potter fansite on the web.
- Myspace: Social networking website
- MLB: Major League Baseball
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N
- Neopets: Virtual pets
- Neowin: Technology news site
- Newgrounds: Flash portal
- Nine Planets: Extensive solar system reference
- Ninja Burger: Ninja parody website
- Netvibes: Web desktop
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O
- Ogame: Popular Webgame
- The Onion: Parody newspaper
- Open Diary: online diary site
- Open Directory Project: Web directory
- OpenHistory: Japanese history encyclopedia
- Operation Clambake: Critical look at Scientology
- Orbitz: Travel website offering discounts on airfare, hotels, car rentals, etc.
- Orkut: Social network
- OSNews : Reviews and articles about computer operating systems
- OverClocked ReMix: Computer and video game music from yesterday, and re-interpreting that of today.
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P
- Parallel History Project: Cold War history reference
- PayPal: Online payment processor
- Penny Arcade: Popular webcomic
- Perverted-Justice.com: Vigilante organization, catches online pedophiles
- Photo.net: Online community for photographers
- Photobucket: Image hosting website
- The Phrontistery: Obscure and unusual words
- Pitchfork Media: Indie music news site
- PlanetMath: Collaborative mathematics reference
- Play.com: British-run retail website which offers CDs, DVDs, video games and books.
- Pogo.com: AOL powered game site
- Political Graveyard: Database of biographic information on American political figures
- Portal of Evil: Humor, spoof of Internet directories
- Powerpets: Virtual Pets
- Priceline: Travel website offering discounts on airfare, hotels, etc.
- Project Gutenberg: Archive of public domain books, music, etc.
- Punk Music Community: Collection of musical news, reviews, etc.
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Q
- Québécois Libre: Online libertarian magazine
- Questia: Subscription virtual library
- Qdb.us: A collection of IRC-related quotes, running as a fork of Bash.org
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R
- RateMyProfessors.com: Student ratings of professors/Canadian site
- RateMyTeachers.com: Student ratings of teachers/American site
- Real Ultimate Power: About ninjas and their sweetness
- Rebuild Hong Kong: A pro-democracy and pro-green website in Hong Kong containing some short movies about Hong Kong and China.
- Ready.gov a US government terror preparedness website that was launched just before the start of the Iraq War in February of 2003.
- Reference.com: Resource website
- The Register: Information technology news
- Rediff.com: News, entertainment and shopping portal
- Retro Junk: Information about movies, TV shows, and commercials from three decades of the 20th century (1950s–1990s)
- retroCRUSH: Site detailing nostalgia from several eras of American popular culture
- RinkWorks: Entertainment, focusing on humor, text-based games, and movie reviews
- Rotten.com: Archive and news of the strange and grotesque
- RottenTomatoes: Movie forums
- RPGamer: News and information on computer role-playing games
- Rulers.org political reference website
- RuneScape: Online role playing game
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S
- Salon.com: Online media site and magazine
- SatireWire: Satirical news
- Seanbaby: Humor
- search.ch: Swiss search engine
- Sev Wide Web: Sci-fi parody web comics
- Ship of Fools: Christian satire and humour webzine
- Sina.com: Chinese infotainment
- Slate: Online news magazine
- Slashdot: Technology weblog
- Smarthome: Technology ecommerce
- The Smoking Gun: Legal documents, especially those involving celebrities
- Snopes.com: Urban legends reference page
- Soccernet: World's best website for the World's best sport, Soccer
- Something Awful: Humor
- SourceForge.net: Open source program development center
- Spike Magazine: Book reviews, music reviews, author interviews, cultural analysis
- Spymac: Apple community
- Stamps.com: Online shipping and mailing services
- Starmen.net: A major EarthBound community.
- Stickdeath.com: Stick-figure cartoons
- Straight Dope: Web site and message board for columnist Cecil Adams
- Street Tech: Independent technology news and reviews
- The Superficial: Celebrity gossip
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T
- Tango.info: One the biggest tango information websites
- Textfiles.com: Computer text files from the golden era of computing.
- Television Without Pity: Snarky recaps of current TV shows
- The Best Page in the Universe Satire written by Maddox
- Theforce.net: Star Wars fan site.
- Thepalace.com: Teen site, doll creator with avatars and props
- Things My Girlfriend and I Have Argued About: Topics of arguments between a couple
- Tradera: Swedish auction website
- Travelocity: Travel
- Tucker Max: Stories revolving around the drunkenness and promiscuity of site's author
- Tuntematon Maa: Discussion about BDSM, in Finnish.
- TV Acres: Guide to TV program facts
- TV.com: Contains user-edited guides to TV shows. It is the new home of TV Tome.
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U
- Ubersite: Humor
- Uncyclopedia: Wikipedia parody
- Urban Dead: a free MMORPG in which players play as either zombies, or survivors.
- Urban Dictionary: Slang dictionary with user-supplied definitions, votes and pronunciations
- Urban Legends Reference Pages: Urban legends, popular E-mail stories, etc.
- Urban 75: Left-wing forums, activism and art based in Brixton, London
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V
- VGMix: Re-mixed video game music website
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W
- WebCrawler: Search engine
- Webshots: Photo-sharing site
- Weebl & Bob: Flash cartoon website
- Where's George?: American currency tracking
- Whirlpool: Australian broadband news/forums
- Wikipedia: Collaborative open content encyclopedia project
- Wikisource: Open-content sources in many languages
- Wikitravel: Open content world-wide travel guide
- Wikiquote: Open content quotations
- Wiktionary: Open content dictionary in many languages
- Wil Wheaton Dot Net: Weblog
- World66: Open content world-wide travel guide
- Wrestlecrap: Professional wrestling satire website
- WWE: The official website of World Wrestling Entertainment
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X
- Xanga: Weblog community
- X-Entertainment: Website featuring 1980s nostalgia articles, a Weblog, and movie, television, and video game reviews. Major emphasis on Christmas and Halloween.
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Y
- Yahoo! - Web portal
- YouTube - video sharing service
- YTMND - "You're The Man Now, Dog"
- YubNub - "A (social) command line for the web"
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Z
- Zappos.com - Shoe retailer
- ZDNet - Technology news
- Zombo.com - Parody site
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Sublists
- List of gasoline price websites
- List of news web sites
- List of search engines
- List of social networking websites
- List of web comics
- List of wikis
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See also
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