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littleguru <3 Seattle

Sep 07, 2008 at 9:20 PM

Let's go back in time. You got this new beast called "the internet, the web". What was the first website you ever visited?

Mine was nba.com">http://www.nba.com/">nba.com It felt so huge because content from somewhere else on the world was streamed right into my parent's basement.

Haha. The good old days:

NBA FAQ said:
Downloading the Netscape Navigator browser or Microsoft Internet Explorer is free through AOL. It's easy. Just follow the instructions for either Windows 3.1 or Windows '95, and in 10 minutes, you're ready to go.
mVPstar I'm white because I smelt an onion.

Sep 07, 2008 at 9:21 PM

PBS.org">http://www.pbs.org/">PBS.org

..shut up, I was a huge Arthur fan back then.
kettch

Sep 07, 2008 at 9:54 PM

We got a Prodigy trial with our first computer. My dad and I got onto the news page and for kicks looked at a story about the Pope washing somebody's feet. There was a picture that took about two minutes to load, one small line at a time.
magicalclick remember the flow

Sep 07, 2008 at 10:09 PM

kettch said:

We got a Prodigy trial with our first computer. My dad and I got onto the news page and for kicks looked at a story about the Pope washing somebody's feet. There was a picture that took about two minutes to load, one small line at a time.

kimo.com.tw
I was still in Taiwan at the time. Great search engine.
Dr Herbie Horses for courses

Sep 07, 2008 at 10:23 PM

magicalclick said:

kettch said:

*snip*

kimo.com.tw
I was still in Taiwan at the time. Great search engine.
I honestly can't reember which site it was -- but it was in 1992, so it was probably a University site somewhere.

Herbie
Raghavendra_Mudugal

Sep 07, 2008 at 10:51 PM

netscape.net

and created first email a/c (still using it... but now it is @aim.com. I liked the name "<name>@netscape.net", wow name with browser.. so i searched for @ie.com or @internetexplorer.net for some moment... hehe!!)

Fun!
jh71283 Throw new System.Beverage. OutOfCoffeeException()

Sep 07, 2008 at 11:22 PM

Altavista.... back when it looked cool....

My first browser was compuserver, and I had a blistering 14.4k modem attached to my 486/33.

I was SO jealous when my friend got to 16mb of ram...
Sven Groot Don't worry... I'm a doctor.

Sep 07, 2008 at 11:26 PM

This one
Dr Herbie Horses for courses

Sep 07, 2008 at 11:29 PM

Sven Groot said:

This one

Nice try, Sven.

Herbie
TommyCarlier Widen your gaze

Sep 07, 2008 at 11:30 PM

Sven Groot said:

This one

I don't know which was the first, but I do remember that Altavista was the bomb back then. And I remember that my first e-mail account was with Hotmail, before it was bought by Microsoft.
jh71283 Throw new System.Beverage. OutOfCoffeeException()

Sep 07, 2008 at 11:32 PM

TommyCarlier said:

Sven Groot said:

*snip*

I don't know which was the first, but I do remember that Altavista was the bomb back then. And I remember that my first e-mail account was with Hotmail, before it was bought by Microsoft.

my first email address was at myownemail.com. It was also cool.
jh71283 Throw new System.Beverage. OutOfCoffeeException()

Sep 07, 2008 at 11:33 PM

TommyCarlier said:

Sven Groot said:

*snip*

I don't know which was the first, but I do remember that Altavista was the bomb back then. And I remember that my first e-mail account was with Hotmail, before it was bought by Microsoft.

Back in those days there was a lot more of a feeling that anybody could fire up a designer and create a homepage, so that seemed to be a lot more user content.

Now it seems you either have to go for a highly polished pofessional looking website, or yet another cookie-cutter blog.
HumanCompiler Now with more program management

Sep 08, 2008 at 12:06 AM

TommyCarlier said:

Sven Groot said:

*snip*

I don't know which was the first, but I do remember that Altavista was the bomb back then. And I remember that my first e-mail account was with Hotmail, before it was bought by Microsoft.

Yah, I'd have to say my first was a search engine. Probably Lycos or Yahoo. Hotmail visits came shortly after that. It was all done at school (probably around '95 or '96). My parents thought it was silly to pay for this thing called "the internet" so other than browsing at school I never had "full time" internet until I got to college (1997). I was so late to the game. I tried AOL for like a week in '94 but I didn't really browse websites with it (and then had an enourmous phone bill to pay afterwards because I didn't understand how it "dialed-up" at the time ).
JChung2006

Sep 08, 2008 at 12:33 AM

I don't remember the site (probably the university's homepage), but the browser I used was lynx. And I've been fighting for good down-level Web experiences ever since.
Bas It finds lightbulbs.

Sep 08, 2008 at 12:36 AM

I think it was Sierra.com. They had huge round grey buttons on the front page. It was pretty spectacular for 1995 or 96 or whenever it was.
Yggdrasil Pour me a cab, 'cause I can't drink no more.

Sep 08, 2008 at 1:52 AM

jh71283 said:

TommyCarlier said:

*snip*

Back in those days there was a lot more of a feeling that anybody could fire up a designer and create a homepage, so that seemed to be a lot more user content.

Now it seems you either have to go for a highly polished pofessional looking website, or yet another cookie-cutter blog.

You do realize that you're contradicting yourself. The "Everyone" that could fire up an HTML designer was a far smaller group than the people who use "cookie-cutter" blogs. There might have been a lot more user-generated DESIGN, but certainly not more CONTENT.
Dodo I'm your creativity creator™ :)

Sep 08, 2008 at 1:56 AM

Lycos in 1995/96 I think, I'm not sure, before that... there weren't any famous websites but some 'mailboxes' to dial at with your modem you downloaded files from or the Compuserve/AOL network, do you call that websites?
elmer I'm on my very last life.

Sep 08, 2008 at 1:59 AM

JChung2006 said:

I don't remember the site (probably the university's homepage), but the browser I used was lynx. And I've been fighting for good down-level Web experiences ever since.

Yes, LYNX was my first exposure to the "web" - and after living on compuserve, it was like... AMAZING!! ... LOL.

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