Can you remember the first website you ever visited?

[DivXExpert]

Yahoo.

I'm pretty sure it was 1993. And I remember it being kindof a hassle to dial-up. Had to set up alot of stuff, but then again, i was like 6. I don't really remeber.

[Conquest10]

Probably Google. Either that or Yahoo!. It was such a long time ago.

[Faustus]

Probably Google.] Either that or Yahoo!. It was such a long time ago.

If it was google then it couldn't be THAT long ago.

I swear I shouldn't feel like an old timer but I do more and more these days.

[ViRaL1]

You think you're old? I remember when TCP/IP only used 2 octets.

[lordsmurf]

I was talking to some kids about music and one of them though the Beastie Boys was a cool new group. I corrected them telling I've listened to their songs back in the early 80's and they always had decent music and weren't new. They retort saying, "They a grandpa group?"

I felt old.

Forget that. I'd rather listen to a "grandpa group" than boring "diaper shitters group" any day of the week. Some of these new groups (Linkin Park, etc) make me want to vomit. Good thing I have a nice CD collection.

Yahoo.
I'm pretty sure it was 1993. And I remember it being kindof a hassle to dial-up. Had to set up alot of stuff, but then again, i was like 6. I don't really remeber.

Nope. 1996. Was just a big directory service, a competitor style service to webcrawler and altavista (altavista.digital.com, not altavista.com, not back then). Yahoo was totally useless at the time. Late 1997 is when e-mail arrived. I don't remember if it was free or not at first.

You can always visit ARCHIVE.ORG to see old sites as they once existed.
Search engines didn't really get good for a while.

I used Mosaic for a while, then Netscape until about 2001 or so. Switched to IE after that.

I'm not old.
I've just grown out of the young and stupid phase. 8)

[Rookie64]

I started in 1995...and at the time, I thought I was coming in late to the whole Internet scene.

First 4 months were on AOL...when it connected with the key getting struck by lighning and going into space

So...getting the AOL browser to work was asking for the impossible.
All I'd get were warnings saying there was too much traffic to access the web.


I started out in Usenet (newsgroups) and stayed with that for a few years.
Also accessed FTP sites very early on and soon enough was using IRC.

I don't really remember the first site I visted...I know I was trying to get to a specific site that was referenced in a trade magazine from that time, so I may have attempted to go there first, but never found the site.

I did a lot a web surfing when I first got a real ISP...and also visted a few friends' sites and links from the newsgroups.

I remember being disappointed by what the Internet was at first - I somewhat expected it to be what it's become since...it was primitive to me at the time :P

The amount of info out there was lacking and not really what I was hoping for.

I liked some things about the way it was then (less regulated and not having much concern about firewall protection) but it's gotten much better with time. I miss some things being the way they were though.

I saw many sites in their earliest stages and watched them grow.
Also saw many good sites fold early

I even started my own site early - before knowing much about site building.

I caught on pretty fast...and actually knew more about using the 'net than using a computer itself

I was also lucky to have people helping me out.

[Conquest10]

If it was google then it couldn't be THAT long ago.

Hey, when Google first started I was barely out of grammar school.

[Shocker Milwaukee]

Search engine. Yahoo I think.

[Capmaster]

If it was google then it couldn't be THAT long ago.

Hey, when Google first started I was barely out of grammar school.

Whelp

[Alan69]

They retort saying, "They a grandpa group?"

I felt old.

Forget that. I'd rather listen to a "grandpa group" than boring "diaper shitters group" any day of the week. Some of these new groups (Linkin Park, etc) make me want to vomit. Good thing I have a nice CD collection.

Hell yes on that. Only exception would be Britney. Tolerate the noise, wrap her up in her diaper and take her home.. Even better, wait 5 years then get her little sister, she looks like she's gonna end up even cuter.



PersianKitty and Danni's Hard Drive. Now those were the sites back then, probably 80% of internet traffic was through them in the mid 90's..

Alan