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| Nupedia |
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| It was an online encyclopaedia whose contents were written by experts and had a license for free use. But due to lack of content and users to generate those content. It operated from March, 2000 and till September 2003. When it was shut down, Nupedia had only 24 articles. |
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| Yahoo! Auctions |
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| This website functions only in Taiwan, Japan and Hong Kong presently. It had a bidding system similar to eBay and a payment system similar to Paypal. However, it received little attention and was shutdown in 2003 for Europe and USA. |
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| Google Answers |
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| Google had launched this site as a marketplace for trading knowledge. People would ask questions which would be answered for money. But the didn’t last long and was wound up within four years after its launch in 2002. |
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| SixDegrees |
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| This is the first version of social networking that we see today. The site was launched in 1997 and had around a million members when it was most popular. Though the run of the site ended in 2000 after it was bought out, it inspired the beginning of modern social networking. |
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| Webvan |
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| It was an online grocery store which catered in the USA. But as online purchasing wasn’t quite popular in those days, the site ultimately stopped its operations in 2001. |
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