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'''iWiW''' (''International Who is Who'') was the first and certainly the most popular Hungarian social networking website. Started in 2002 as WiW, later reformed as iWiW, it was the most visited Hungarian website between 2005 and 2010. During its heyday it had 1.5 million visitors daily, and with nearly 5 million user profiles it covered the whole internet-using population of Hungary.
'''iWiW''' (''International Who is Who'') was the first and certainly the most popular Hungarian social networking website. Started in 2002 as WiW, later reformed as iWiW, it was the most visited Hungarian website between 2005 and 2010. During its heyday it had 1.5 million visitors daily, and with nearly 5 million user profiles it covered the whole internet-using population of Hungary.
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Revision as of 14:18, 16 January 2017

iWiW
IWiW logo
First and most popular Hungarian social network
First and most popular Hungarian social network
URL http://iwiw.hu[IAWcite.todayMemWeb]
Status Offline
Archiving status Lost
Archiving type Unknown
IRC channel #archiveteam-bs (on hackint)

iWiW (International Who is Who) was the first and certainly the most popular Hungarian social networking website. Started in 2002 as WiW, later reformed as iWiW, it was the most visited Hungarian website between 2005 and 2010. During its heyday it had 1.5 million visitors daily, and with nearly 5 million user profiles it covered the whole internet-using population of Hungary.

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MOTHERFUCKER ! ! !

Shutdown

In early 2014, iWiW still had ~70,000 visitors daily, but, especially compared to the time having 1.5 million visitors daily, it was unsustainable. As the site started to become unprofitable, they made the decision to close it. It was announced on May 15, 2014 that iWiW will shut down on June 30.

Users were able to snapshot their profile page, and, more importantly, their contacts, messages and photos could be exported in a "time capsule".

iWiW closed at midnight on June 30, 2014. The iwiw.hu domain redirects to origo.hu since.

Archives

No archive of the site was made. Wayback Machine has got ~250,000 URLs snapshotted, but, considering the size of the site, we can say that this important part of Hungarian web history is lost.

Clones

iwiw2.com

About two weeks before the closure, a new website appeared called iWiW2 on iwiw2.com, claiming itself to be the successor of iWiW and calling iWiW users to enter their login credentials so that iWiW2 staff can copy their user contents from iWiW. The ugly and quickly built-up site was created obviously for phishing purposes and soon disappeared.

iwiw.club

Another try of revival is iwiw.club, started in April 2016, and 3 months later it is still online. However, it doesn't look too successful. An unknown "news site" wrote in its articleBeware! Lies! in April that "Although it was just a few days ago that the largest news sites wrote about it, number of users can be estimated to tens of thousands." As of July 2016, no news sites seem to have written about it, and according to the iwiw.club[IAWcite.todayMemWeb] main page, there are as many as 35 registered users.

Sources

Further reading


     Hungarian websites     
Red entries indicate websites which don't have an article on this wiki yet. Striked-through entries indicate websites that have already been shut down.
Archives & Digital Libraries mek.oszk.hu  · epa.oszk.hu  · dka.oszk.hu  · webarchivum.oszk.hu  · NAVA  · Fortepan  · fentrol.hu
Blogging Blog.hu  · Blogter  · Freeblog  · Blogger.hu  · reblog.hu  · xfree.hu  · cafeblog.hu
Social networks iWiW  · myVIP  · hotdog.hu  · Baratikor.com  · network.hu  · Mommo  · privi.hu
Webhosting Extra  · tar.hu  · ATW  · Ingyenweb  · Freeweb  · Ultraweb  · x3.hu  · ini.hu  · ininet.hu  · G-Portál  · uCoz  · eOldal  · ewk  · 5mp.eu  · mindenkilapja  · Webnode
Forums, message boards* Index  · SG  · Nők Lapja Cafe  · Hoxa
Video hosting Indavideó  · Videa  · videoplayer.hu  · xfree.hu  · videok.hu
Image hosting Kepfeltoltes.hu  · Fotoalbum.hu  · Indafotó  · Kephost.com  · pics.coldline.hu  · kep.tar.hu  · noob.hu  · PSharing (a.k.a. ivPicture)  · Kephost.hu  · kepfeltoltes.eu  · kephost.net  · kepkuldes.com  · xfree.hu  · GTF Képhost  · fotozz.hu  · Kepkezelo.com  · keptarad.hu  · darkweb.hu  · fos.hu
Questions and Answers gyakorikerdesek.hu  · tudjatok.hu
File sharing data.hu  · toldacuccot.hu  · hellshare.hu  · addat.hu  · fileposta.hu
Document sharing doksi.hu  · Docplayer
Fun Demotiváló  · keptelenseg.hu  · csubakka.hu  · nemkutya.com  · legalja.hu  · szanalmas.hu  · trollfesz.cc  · gumicsizma.hu
Trash napiszar.com  · napiszar.hu  · netszar.com  · napiszar.org
Other News+C  · moly.hu  · gyertyalang.hu  · Volán websites  · Szuperinfó