Top 5 Most Essential Websites? - Page 4

On March 19 2010 03:06 ZaplinG wrote:
Scenario:

So, I was taking a dump and I forgot my book, so I came up with this scenario to keep me occupied while on the pooper:

If you met someone who had never been exposed to the internet and you only had enough time to tell them the addresses of five websites that they should absolutely know about, what websites would you list?

My personal 5 in order of importance would have to be:

1) Wikipedia
2) Youtube
3) Hulu
4) Facebook
5) Teamliquid

Reasonings:

1) Wikipedia is pretty much the sum of human knowledge. Obvious #1 for me.
2) Youtube is an epic time-sink. So much to see, and new stuff comes out daily. Easy #2.
3) Why ever watch regular T.V. again? I've spent so much time on Hulu and I think they would too.
4) The #1 social networking (yay for buzzwords!) website. Heck, even my grandparents use this thing.
5) Of course TL makes the list. Along with endless starcraft info, this is also where I get most of my general news. Great diversity of people along with excellent moderating keeps things very worldly and enjoyable.


Notes:

I didn't add Google to this list on purpose. I think that while Google is omnipotent and may actually take over the world some day, it is not absolutely essential to know about. There are so many search engines that do just as good of a job.

Conclusion:

So, what do you guys think? What would make your top 5 most important websites? Try to give a bit of reasoning like I did to your picks. Remember, the person has had no contact with the internet before, although you can assume they are smart enough to figure out the websites you are recommending.