20 Years of Internet's Biggest Properties

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[–]wizzwizz4 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (5 children)

I'm confused. This shows some mergers but not all (e.g. shows Yahoo → Oath but not Geocities → Yahoo), and shows some things as mergers that aren't mergers (e.g. MSN → Microsoft). Also, the choice of whether a particular thing is given an icon seems to be arbitrary.

From this I propose that the data might be being played with to push something in particular – probably the idea that the web is getting more commercialised over time, considering that it's visualcapitalist.com and there are more icons on the right than the left.

[–]Vigte[S] 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

Interesting analysis! Perhaps indeed it is intended to put forth a specific opinion - not sure to what end though!!

Good for you, keeping your shields up!

[–]wizzwizz4 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (3 children)

Suggesting that the web is more "controlled" than it is, prompting people to pursue alternatives? A worthy cause, but not one worth deception.

[–]JasonCarswell 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

You're over analyzing a simplifying chart. The artist listed their sources so maybe their sources were limited too and they were too lazy to get in deeper.

If you really want to get picky why are there only two characters at the top? Why isn't there someone with a tablet and a phone?

[–]wizzwizz4 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

Because the characters at the top are completely irrelevant; they're not the data being presented.

[–]JasonCarswell 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

They're not irrelevant or they would have been images of avocados, flowers, chimney's or other random/decorative elements.

It's very illustrative of the "20 YEARS OF INTERNET GIANTS"

Needless to say this is an example, like yours, of perhaps being hyper-critical when a glance is all is necessary to get the idea.