7 Worthless Websites Which Earned Millions

The Internet is the first thing that humanity has created that humanity doesn't understand, the largest experiment in mayhem that humans have ever had. Internet has been evaluated on various grounds. No doubt that internet is regarded as the lifeline of the new globalized society. In fact at times it is even observed that few people waste hours after hours on browsing internet websites. Here are 7 websites listed by Investopedia on which people happily waste hours after hour god knows doing what. Come let’s find out.

1. ICanHasCheezburger.com

Next time you see your cat doing some thing stupid, just take a picture and put it on internet. Who knows you and your cat might end up becoming famous. Yes, there are people who search for cat pictures on internet.  ICanHasCheezburger.com is website featuring funny cat pictures with taglines which no one will be able to find in any dictionary. Yet the website gets 5, 00, 000 hits per day and earns an estimated amount of $4 million annually.

2. Farmville

Though many of you don’t consider farming as an interesting activity, but Farmville has been successful to en route thousands of people into farmers. The online game owned by Zynga is a popular game which allows players to plowing land, planting, growing and harvesting crops, harvesting trees and bushes, and raising livestock. It was estimated that in 2011 Farmville earned $4.16 million per player per annum. Though the farming activates are of no help to the actual world at the alarming time of global warming, but at least some people are putting effort in the virtual world.

3. Cracked.com

They say that being happy and laughing helps increase your age, but now it seems as if laughing and being happy can also help become one millionaire.  Cracked.com, "most visited humor site on the web" as the company claims features humorous article, jokes and videos and has monthly visitors of about 7.4 million which undoubtedly earns the company well to pay off the bills and keep generating new content.

4. Newgrounds.com

Founded on July 6, 1995 by Tom Fulp, Newgrounds is an American entertainment and social media website and company. The website is popular for its articles and videos and other fascinating content. But the Newground flash games are the attention seeker of the visitors. The site also helps in promoting talented animators and game developers which ahs successful earned founder Fulp an estimated amount of $15 million till date.

5. IMDb.com

IMDb.com is Amazone.com owned online database site containing information about actors, films, television programs, and video games. The intro might make you feel nothing exciting about the website but the Internet Movie Database.com has 100 million unique visitors per month apart from the regular visitors.  As of January 7, 2013, IMDb had 2,393,341 titles and 5,010,177 personalities in its database.

6. Reddit.com

Reddit.com is a San Francisco, California, U.S. based website which allows registered users to upload their individual posts. The posts are later rated by other users using the “up” or “down” options and based on the rating the most popular posts are ranked by the website.  People can also post external links and thus the website successfully attracts huge visitors.

7. TheCHIVE.com

Interesting pictures always are eye teasers. The photo entertainment website CHIVE.com contains more than 20,000 exceptional photo galleries. The pictures are usually approved by the staff from searches of both international and domestic photo viewers as well as the pictures submitted in the website itself. The site has monthly visitors of about 100 million which are undoubtedly among the RGB admires.