Editing 2000s (section)

==== Popular websites ====
[[Google]], [[YouTube]], [[Ask.com]] and [[Wikipedia]] emerged as popular websites, becoming the 2nd, 3rd, 7th and 9th most popular websites by the end of the decade respectively. [[Amazon (website)|Amazon]] overtook [[eBay]] as the most-visited e-commerce site in 2008. [[AOL]] significantly declined in popularity throughout the decade, falling from being the most popular website to no longer being within the top 10. [[Excite (web portal)|Excite]] and [[Lycos]] fell outside the top 10, and [[MSN]] fell from the second to sixth most popular site, though it quadrupled its monthly visits (going from 325 to 1.2 billion monthly visits). [[Lycos|Yahoo!]] maintained relatively stable popularity, remaining the most popular website for most of the decade.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Eagle |first=James |date=2022-09-09 |title=Animation: The Most Popular Websites by Web Traffic (1993–2022) |url=https://www.visualcapitalist.com/cp/most-popular-websites-by-web-traffic/ |access-date=2023-01-09 |website=Visual Capitalist |language=en-US |archive-date=January 9, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230109190557/https://www.visualcapitalist.com/cp/most-popular-websites-by-web-traffic/ |url-status=live}}</ref>
[[File:Walkman NWZ-810 & iPod Nano 5G.jpg|thumb|The rise of [[Portable media player|MP3 players]], [[download]]able music, and cellular [[ringtone]]s in the mid-2000s ended the decade-long dominance that the [[Compact disc|CD]] held up to that point.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Lynskey |first=Dorian |date=2015-05-28 |title=How the compact disc lost its shine |url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2015/may/28/how-the-compact-disc-lost-its-shine |access-date=2024-02-05 |work=The Guardian |language=en-GB |issn=0261-3077 |archive-date=July 31, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180731041216/https://www.theguardian.com/music/2015/may/28/how-the-compact-disc-lost-its-shine |url-status=live}}</ref>]]