What Were The Top Music (For Purchase) Websites… In 1999? Pop Culture History.

January 25, 2011

Mr. Pop History – Back then, there were no such things as downloads, so music sites were really retail stores that shipped CD’s and tapes. But – it’s a good question and a little fascinating. 1999 was also the year this site began as www.pophistorynow.

Of the top 20 retail websites – two were music. One was CDNow.com (1.2 million unique visitors) and the other was Columbiahouse.com (with 432 thousand unique visitors).

The top retail websites in 1999 (just in case you wanted to know) were:

Amazon.co with about 4.5 million unique visitors
EBay.com with about 4 million unique visitors
EToys.com with 1.8 million unique visitors
Shopping.aol.com with 1.5 unique visitors
Toysrus.com with 1.5 unique visitors
Store.yahoo.com with 1.2 unique visitors

Gary West – www.mrpopculture.com  and  www.mrpophistory.com

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From VN – There was a town in Oregon who named themselves after a website. Can you tell me who they were?

December 16, 2009

Mr. Pop History – That is correct. The tiny Oregon town of Halfway changed its name to half.com for a year. Half.com was a sort of flea market, selling used goods, hence the name. That year was 2000.

Later purchased by EBay, half.com died in 2003 after EBay decided it was offering a lot of the same services.

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