StumbleUpon's toolbar button sent you to a random web page matched to your interests, and its thumbs-up votes could send millions of visitors to an obscure site. Newly independent from eBay again, it was one of the biggest sources of traffic on the web in 2010.
- Domain in 2010
- stumbleupon.com
- Launched
- November 2001
- Founders
- Garrett Camp, Geoff Smith
- Owner in 2010
- StumbleUpon (independent, after buyback from eBay in 2009)
- Status today
- Shut down
What people used it for
- Discovering random pages by interest
- Thumbing pages up or down
Interface characteristics
- Browser toolbar with a big Stumble! button
- Orange and green branding
Notable features
- Interest-based recommendations
- Huge referral traffic for small sites
What happened later
StumbleUpon shut down in 2018 and pointed users to Mix.
Archived on the Wayback Machine
Archived pages open on web.archive.org (Internet Archive). They are historical captures, not part of this exhibit.
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