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These websites defined the early 2000s - here's where they are now

Clinton NguyenOct 5, 2016, 21:46 IST

MSN.com, the homepage that graced many Windows XP screens in the mid-2000's.MSN.com/Screenshot

Much of the internet in the early 2000s was defined by websites that ushered people into a new age of social media and online entertainment.

Take Friendster for example - the massively popular site became a household name before MySpace, and then Facebook overtook both of them as the most popular social network.

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Friendster is no longer in service, but plenty of the sites that defined the early 2000s are still around, albeit in somewhat different forms.

Here's what they're doing now.