15 websites that changed the world

Fifteen years ago, many of the things that we take as granted in todays Web-enabled world had completely different associations. Confused? Well, try Amazon. Just over a decade ago, Amazon was just a large river in South America. Yahoo was a term from Gulliver`s Travels and googol was a very large number (one followed by a hundred zeroes). Today, they are household names, but with a new significance.
Let’s take a look at websites that have become indispensable.