It's mind-boggling how the 5 most valuable internet companies have changed over the past 20 years

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#5 in 1995: Web.com

#5 in 1995: Web.com

Market cap in 1995: $982 million

Market cap in 2015: $1.19 billion

What it does: Web.com is a web hosting and management service company that had more than $500 million in sales last year. But the company’s history traces back to MicronPC, a PC manufacturer founded in 1995 that later merged with a web hosting company called Interland. Soon after the merger, it exited the PC business to focus on web hosting, and bought a company called Web.com in 2007, which is when it also changed the company name to Web.com.

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#5 in 2015: Amazon

#5 in 2015: Amazon

Market cap in 1995: Launched in 1995, didn't IPO until 1997

Market cap in 2015: $199 billion

What it does: Amazon is arguably the largest e-commerce site with over $88 billion in sales last year. It started out as an online book store, but it now sells everything from home appliances and baby products to clothing and gourmet food. Amazon Web Services, its cloud service business, is also generating almost $5 billion in sales.

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#4 in 1995: RentPath

#4 in 1995: RentPath

Market cap in 1995: $1.55 billion

Market cap in 2015: Privately owned by TPG Capital and Providence Equity Partners

What it does: RentPath, formerly known as Primedia, is an online service that helps people find apartments for rent or houses for sale. It was founded in 1989 before going public in 1995, and according to Meeker, became the fourth largest public internet company in that year. In 2011, RentPath was acquired by TPG Capital for over $500 million and is now held private.

#4 in 2015: Facebook

#4 in 2015: Facebook

Market cap in 1995: Didn’t exist

Market cap in 2015: $226 billion

What it does: Facebook, founded in 2004, is the world’s largest social media site. It has 1.44 billion monthly active users and had over $12 billion in sales last year. It also owns the messaging app WhatsApp and the photo sharing app Instagram. Its 2012 IPO, which valued the company at $104 billion, was the largest internet IPO in history at the time.

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#3 in 1995: Axel Springer

#3 in 1995: Axel Springer

Market cap in 1995: $2.3 billion

Market cap in 2015: $4.94 billion

What it does: Axel Springer, founded in 1946, is one of the biggest digital publishers in the world. It owns a number of different online publishing businesses and has almost 14,000 employees worldwide. Last year, it had roughly $3 billion in sales. It went public in 1985 in Germany, and according to Meeker, was the 3rd largest public internet company in the world in 1995. (Note: Axel Springer is an investor in Business Insider.)

#3 in 2015: Alibaba

#3 in 2015: Alibaba

Market cap in 1995: Didn’t exist

Market cap in 2015: $233 billion

What it does: Alibaba is a Chinese e-commerce company that provides many other services like online payments and cloud computing as well. Founded by Jack Ma in 1999, it grew exponentially over the past decade and listed on the NYSE last year. Its IPO, which raised $25 billion, ranks as the world’s biggest in history.

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#2 in 1995: Apple

#2 in 1995: Apple

Market cap in 1995: $3.9 billion

Market cap in 2015: $763 billion

What it does: Apple in 1995 was led by John Sculley, the former Pepsi CEO who’s best-known for ousting Steve Jobs. Regardless of his legacy, Sculley still managed to keep Apple as one of the most highly-valued internet companies back then, hovering around $3.9 billion in market cap, according to Meeker. Two years later, however, Jobs returned as interim CEO and the rest is history.

#2 in 2015: Google

#2 in 2015: Google

Market cap in 1995: Didn’t exist

Market cap in 2015: $373 billion

What it does: Google was cofounded by two Stanford Ph.D students, Larry Page and Sergey Brin, in 1998. Its search engine soon became a massive hit, bringing in billions of people on to its platform. Last year, it generated over $66 billion in sales, mostly through online advertising. But Google’s business isn’t just limited to search and advertising: it sells storage and servers, as well as business software. It’s also engaged in a lot of “moonshot” projects, including driverless cars and internet service balloons.

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#1 in 1995: Netscape

#1 in 1995: Netscape

Market cap in 1995: $5.4 billion

Market cap in 2015: Doesn’t exist

What it does: Netscape was once the most widely used web browsers in the world, accounting for over 90% of the market in the mid-90s. It went public in 1995, one year after its founding, and according to Meeker, was the most valuable internet company that year. But Microsoft Explorer soon caught on and took over as the de facto dominant web browser. In 1999, AOL acquired Netscape for $4.2 billion, but by the mid-2000s, it pretty much disappeared from the market, although its core technology lives on within the open-source Mozilla Foundation and its Firefox browser. Marc Andreessen, one of the cofounders of Netscape, is now running Andreessen Horowitz, one of the most powerful VC firms in the world.

#1 in 2015: Apple

#1 in 2015: Apple

Market cap in 1995: $3.9 billion

Market cap in 2015: $763 billion

What it does: Soon after Steve Jobs returned to Apple in 1997, the company took off as one of the most innovative and powerful tech companies in the world. The iPod changed the way music is consumed and the iPhone changed the way we communicate. Even after Jobs died in 2011, Apple has been able to continue to innovate and keep up its value, creating new iPhone products, and most lately, the Apple Watch. In January 2015, Apple had the most profitable quarter for any company during any quarter in history, recording $18 billion in net profit.

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