Obviously Google, Amazon, eBay, and Yahoo are still around and succesful. But how many others?
“Succesful” is left up to you. I’ll throw IGN and Penny Arcade out there as other examples. They are still some of the biggest movers in their respective markets.
Priceline, Expedia, Netflix, Salesforce, Shutterfly, Pandora, WebMD, VeriSign
And in 2000, there was Baidu and Tripadvisor
Not counting all the ones swallowed up by Yahoo, etc.
Lastminute.com started in 1998 and is still around and doing well.
Slashdot.org is still around, started in 1997.
Fark.com 1997, still around.
Somethingawful.com 1999, still around.
A “friend” tells me that some of the largest porn sites have been in existence since 1999/2000.
Edit to add, I’d also add Valve, started in 1996 as a games company but now controls Steam, the most successful games market on windows.
**Priceline **crashed with the rest of them, the stock plummeting to less than $1, and they had payed Capt Kirk to do their commercials mostly in stock. However he was smart and held onto it and eventually Priceline bounced back to over $400/share and made Shatner almost nine-figures rich…
Monster.com and Careerbuilder.com date from 1999 and 1995 respectively.
LiveJournal.com is still around (it barely gets in under the wire, starting in April 1999). The English-speaking blog world has mostly departed to tumblr but it is still apparently has a big user presence in Russia (and that’s where the developers are these days). But unless you deleted your embarrassing teenage LJ from the early Bush 43 days, it’s still there online where you left it.
Dice.com started by running ads in the Sunday papers.
Then was a BBS
Still going.
Yea, I don’t know if I would call Yahoo still successful.
Match.com launched in 1995. Lycos.com launched in 1994 (I have a soft spot for that one since its chat rooms were my first Internet “home”) and is still around. I’m not sure it’s still “successful” since it sold for $12 billion in 2000 and is now worth less than $100 million, but it’s still functioning.
AOL still exists though it is now a media company rather than an ISP and Verizon owns it.
My wife still has an AOL email address.
Don’t know how “successful” you’d call it but as Hermitian pointed out calling Yahoo successful is also a stretch.
EarthLink, believe it or not, is not only still around but still offers dial-up service. I have no idea how this is possible.
Craigslist started in 1996 on the web, and incorporated in 1999.
InfoSpace, an early purveyor of search engines since 1996, seems to still be around, as is their composite mash-up search engine Dogpile. What it does is search all the other major search engines to give you a composite of listings from all of them.
Yahoo still has 9000 employees and they made 7 billion by buying 40 percent of Ali Baba early on then selling it. They still own 20 percent of Ali Baba and have $61 billion in assets. By most people’s expectations thats a successful company.
They’ve had their rough spots too though, and share prices are about a third of their pre-bubble peak.
But yes, as a business it’s hard to call it a failure and their web/news portal is still very popular.
I was surprised to find out Tucows (1993) is still around. They moved out of download.cnet.com’s territory, and are now best known for offering the budget cell phone provider Ting.
ZomboCom has been going strong since 1999.
A bit of a hijack but I was pleased to find “The World” is still in business;
"The World (www.TheWorld.com) operated by Software Tool & Die is an Internet service provider headquartered in Boston, MA.
Since 1989, we were the first public dialup Internet Service Provider (ISP) on the planet. And we’re still proud to be the best. "
That’s DIALUP and still going…
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That is also a Most Awesome™ company name.
Akamai is still around and doing quite well.
The Straight Dope Message Board is pre 2000 and is successful “enough” via ad sales to keep going. It’s the 2117th most popular website in the USA!
Interestingly we also own the Star of Siam restaurant website