Curated playlist
Internet properties established in 2008
- Io9In 2023, io9's top editor publicly denounced his own company for publishing AI-written articles.
- HitFixBy November 2016, the HitFix website simply redirected to Uproxx.
- The WBThe WB's final image was a shadow of a cartoon frog bowing. Michigan J. Frog had been retired the year before.
- The Daily BeastThe Daily Beast took its name from a fictional newspaper in Evelyn Waugh's novel Scoop. The real Daily Beast, an American news website covering politics, media and pop culture, began publishing on the 6th of October 2008. A name borrowed…
- Bleacher ReportOne Bleacher Report writer spent three years there and earned $200. He wrote over 500 articles for the site.
- PatheosAfter a September 2016 sale, Patheos barred its nonreligious bloggers from criticizing other religions.
- AirbnbAirbnb began with an air mattress in a San Francisco living room. Roommates short on rent hosted guests in 2007.
- GOG.comGOG.com changed hands in December 2025, when CD Projekt sold the store to Michał Kiciński, one of the people who had founded it. CD Projekt is the Polish company behind The Witcher. The store itself sells video games and films from Warsaw,…
- Academia.eduAcademia.edu, a for-profit company, has held a .edu web address since 1999. Later rules limited them to universities.
- DuckDuckGoDuckDuckGo, a search engine built around online privacy, traces back to a stained glass class in 2007. That is where Gabriel Weinberg got the idea of improving how people search. Today the company behind it is headquartered in Paoli,…