Can you remember the first website you ever visited?

[Will Hay]

You know, the first time you got it all working and clicked from the default homepage in IE (or whatever) and went to a page of your choosing?

Mine was my local footie team, www.leedsunited.com
Will

[Capmaster]

www.yahoo.com. I still use it as my browser home page

[yoda313]

Hello,

I'm sure mine was yahoo. Hard to miss that one.

Kevin
--Not positive though, a little foggy on my first net venture.--

[Cobra]

www.apple.com

Accessed on my trusty old Performa 6400 (which is still in use today) on a 28.8kbps GeoPort modem.

[Faustus]

webcrawler, is was the best back then. My ISPs install software set it as my homepage.

[gitreel]

www.msnbc.com

[Craig Tucker]

When we first had acces to the net here at work it was text only, no graphics at all. So long ago I really cant remember.

[lordsmurf]

Some university. Webcrawler came out a few months later. 1993. On a Mac too, of all things.

[Capmaster]

Anyone remember Mosaic?

[tgpo]

A Sim City 2000 website. I had no idea about "The Internet" because I had only used AOL up until that point. So I had no idea about urls or anything like that. So In the url bar I typed sim city 2000 and it searched yahoo for it, I believe. I clicked the first link I saw.

[Capmaster]

I had Prodigy before the web came into being. Compuserve was a big force too in the early days.

[Faustus]

Yeah and sometimes connects sucked because Win3.1 wasn't really designed for internte and trumpet winsock sucked.

[Capmaster]

Yeah and sometimes connects sucked because Win3.1 wasn't really designed for internte and trumpet winsock sucked.

Trumpet winsock. That brings me back. You probably also remember token rings too. And 10B-2?

[housepig]

would have been 1994, I can't remember for the life of me.

[Capmaster]

would have been 1994, I can't remember for the life of me.

About right. I used to hate those 50 ohm terminators you had to use for 10B-2 (coax) ethernet. Remove one and you could take down the whole workgroup.

[curryman]

Can't really remember which site.
But let me tell you! - I was at the Freeserve(retrieve my account) page an awful lot.

[thecoalman]

Does connecting to BBS with a C64 count?

Otherwise I'm sure it was a porn site

[SquirrelDip]

Does connecting to BBS with a C64 count?

Otherwise I'm sure it was a porn site

About the same for me too - just change the C64 to an Atari 400...

[Hardcoreruss]

www.yahoo.com. I still use it as my browser home page

Same here, and I have .co.uk as mine you septic

[lordsmurf]

X, Y an Z modem, anybody?
Sticky notes with BBS numbers all over the monitor?
AOL was a joke? Oh wait... still is.
Compuserve emails: "8754168742@compuserve"

[Capmaster]

X, Y an Z modem, anybody?
Sticky notes with BBS numbers all over the monitor?
AOL was a joke? Oh wait... still is.
Compuserve emails: "8754168742@compuserve"

How about Kermit?

[Doramius]

AOL I think was the first website because a friend of mine subscribed to it via a 3.5" floppy claiming 5 hours free. :Shock: My first online experience (if you call it that) was around 1990 with Juno email. But that's not really online as it was for only email. And at that time, it too had your phone number for your email address. 5155559999@Juno.com I remember them sending out the mass mailer that everyone had to pick a new email address before a certain date or their account would be closed.

[Capmaster]

I used to think it was the bees knees when Prodigy offered 5 free e-mails a month (or was it a week?), and it only cost $12/month

[Craig Tucker]

Some university. Webcrawler came out a few months later. 1993. On a Mac too, of all things.

Yes I work for a University.

[lordsmurf]

Juno was new in 1995.
http://www.unitedonline.net/history.html

The Internet only became available in 1993 with HTML,
and then modern e-mail addresses (@.com) was shortly thereafter.

You were playing with IP addresses before that, or on private networks.

Man... all these Yahoo people... I remember when it started. Was a second-rate nothing for such a long time.

[Devanshu]

amateurpages.com



Just kidding...I remember it was for a research project for english so it was 37.com

[Guest]

Can't really remember which site.
But let me tell you! - I was at the Freeserve(retrieve my account) page an awful lot.

me neither but probably yahoo.

[Doramius]

I'm pretty sure Juno e-mail was new in 1994-1996 or so.

Maybe I'm confusing them with someone like them. I do remember using Juno in 93' or 94' though. At that time you could have a password of only 4 characters AND it didn't have to be alpha & numeric. My password used to be "poop". I know it's been long closed. I haven't used it since 97'. That's when I decided to open an email account through my college. I used it maybe once a month because the only email addresses I had were of people at the college I saw every day. THat account is long gone too. My password for that was 'qwertyfart97' because it had to be 12 characters and be alpha & numeric.

EDIT: If I remembered the the dates and years of everything, my wife wouldn't yell at me as often.

[Will Hay]

Can't really remember which site.
But let me tell you! - I was at the Freeserve(retrieve my account) page an awful lot.

Man, so was I!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Will

[Alan69]

Internet was Stroud's to get better programs for Win 3.1 to deal with the net. Altavista and Yahoo were right after that.

First real online (not a direct dialed BBS) was around mid-80's was Qlink on the C-64 with a $100 300 baud modem, then with a $100 1200 baud modem a year or two later.. Also recall a service that let you call long distance BBS's as local for like $10 or $20 a month around the same time, can't recall the name immediately though. Seem to recall possibly Starlink and something with a P as names though..

First remote anything was 1979 in 8th grade using an Apple and a probably $1000 300 baud modem playing a simple Star Trek game on a remote mainframe. Oh what fun!

Alan