Once upon a time U-M was the 8th most visited site on the Internet

The year was 1996, and the Internet was the innovation too many wrote off as a passing trend.

Business Insider offers a website by website comparison of what sites were hot then, and what's hot today. The results are pretty surprising. All I can say is: At least we beat out Penthouse.

Check it out here.

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