Can you remember the first website you ever visited?

[Byronleehk]

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...

Same here, also a commodore C64

[rhegedus]

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

[d_unbeliever]

www.playboy.com

[Faustus]

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?

My first network for multi playing Duke Nukem 3d.... wow terminators sucked. The worse part was I had no clue what I was doing. The guy at the store told us we bought all we needed. It has no terminators so we just tried to plug the cable directly in. Then run the files we were given to startup the network. That night instead of mulitplaying Duke we got pissed and smoked alot because we couldn't make it work.

[Madz]

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...

Same here, also a commodore C64

Me too. Dialed into Quantam-Link (now AOL ) via a C64 to use Habitat/Club Caribe. Earliest avatar-based virtual world. I still remember having to remove the phone receiver and plugging the squiggle cord into the modem (1200 baud? I forget now) to connect.

I got on the Internet in '93 using a Unix shell account, 14.4 modem and a DOS comm program. Think the first site I connected to was MIT using the Lynx textual browser. About a year later a program called "TIA" came out that installed on the remote shell so a graphical browser could be used. The first one of those I used was Mosaic.

[beavereater]

I tried looking for pictures of Quake...that was the first thing I did. I think I used altavista.com as the search engine. TOOK AGES to get the pictures in

[888888]

First website I ever went to was probably a Buffalo Sabres fan site. I did not have the internet and had to access it from school. First site at home was probably HotBot WebSearch.

[pyrate83]

I think it was porn...honestly I'm very sure it was.

[menes777]

www.lingerie.com

Yep I was more perverted, then Michael Jackson posing as Santa clause at a blind kid's mall.

[yoda313]

Hello,

First website I ever went to was probably a Buffalo Sabres fan site.

I guess you went to this one a lot then:

www.nogoal.com

Sorry about that Finals a few years back. Must have been tough.

Kevin

[offline]

1985 Dec April 16 6.14 pm

Pre Lynx, no web, just Echo's @ 150 baud

[Will Hay]

1985 Dec April 16 6.14 pm

Pre Lynx, no web, just Echo's @ 150 baud

(In his best US trailer trash accent, baseball cap included)...
.....so dude, you're like, old?
Whoaa!
Will

[Capmaster]

1985 Dec April 16 6.14 pm

Pre Lynx, no web, just Echo's @ 150 baud

(In his best US trailer trash accent, baseball cap included)...
.....so dude, you're like, old?
Whoaa!
Will

We prefer the term "seasoned".
.
.
.
BWAAAHAHAHA

[offline]

Born 1968.

I was a geek. It was either build computers (nobody owned or could
afford to buy one) or stay in the library and read Science Fiction.

[offline]

Seasoned... haha

-edit-

Still remember my password " tanyarrahawt050962 "

Now all I need is some pimples, a shirt protector and
some thick glasses.

[Will Hay]

Wild, I'd have put you fifteen years above me, not three.
On the slide rather than in your prime, you know?

W.

[Capmaster]

Born 1968.

I was a geek. It was either build computers (nobody owned or could
afford to buy one) or stay in the library and read Science Fiction.

Whoa. You're old Oops <removes foot from mouth now>

[offline]

I am definitely on the slide
They say having kids keeps you young. Must work for you Will.
But I can see Will Junior asking for the car keys sooner than you think
Time passes quickly.

[Capmaster]

I am definitely on the slide
They say having kids keeps you young. Must work for you Will.
But I can see Will Junior asking for the car keys sooner than you think
Time passes quickly.

Kids remind you of how ******* old you've gotten. Don't kid yourself. Without kids to remind you, all you'd have is your wife and friends, and they're growing old at the same pace, so all seems normal.

Throw kids into the equation and you get those sideways glances when you talk about your favorite bands, total confusion when you complain that your "ass feels old today", and no sympathy when the hairline makes a believable attempt to kiss the back of your neck.

Kids keep you young? ......BAH!

[offline]

Oops <removes foot from mouth now>

Not to worry. OT has proven time and time again
that most of us can regress to early childhood
at the press of a button. I know I can

As the great Northcat has stated on more than
one occasion, this place is for metal release.

[Will Hay]

I have to say my belief that a little luck and inner happiness is the key to long life was personified when my children were born.
I've never been happier and long may it continue, for me and all my vcdhelp.com friends.

...as the great Northcat has stated on more than
one occasion

That guy keeps going up in my estimation.
Will

[Capmaster]

I have to say my belief that a little luck and inner happiness is the key to long life was personified when my children were born.
I've never been happier and long may it continue, for me and all my vcdhelp.com friends.

...as the great Northcat has stated on more than
one occasion

That guy keeps going up in my estimation.
Will

Alright Will, where's the zinger? I'm not used to you blowing sunshine up my ass

I love my kids more than my next breath, and taking a bullet for either of them is the definition of a no-brainer. But ....daymmmmmn, they make me feel old. My younger son was so active a few years ago that vitamins took him

[indolikaa]

It was too long ago for me to remember.

I remember using BBS connections to download porn using Z Modem protocols. I also remember being on America Online when there were only about 1,000 members. The graphical inteface was stunning on my Magnavox 386SX computer.

I also remember the day I upgraded to a true 14.4 modem. I thought I had died and gone to heaven.

[northcat_8]

My wife and I started early...but....

get ready Capmaster..."it ain't easy".

Son is 17 will turn 18 in april, we didn't send him to school until he was already 6. He's a Junior...proud of him and all that, but putting a memory video together for my mother-in-law for her birthday (my wife is an only child...explains her selfishness ) I didn't realize how little they were once. It's pretty sad. My daughter is 14, 8th grader, she's woman size at 5'8"...little girl is gone forever

It will be too late, soon

[Capmaster]

Oops <removes foot from mouth now>

Not to worry. OT has proven time and time again
that most of us can regress to early childhood
at the press of a button. I know I can

As the great Northcat has stated on more than
one occasion, this place is for metal release.

No. Worse than that I meant "Hello kettle ...meet pot"

[Doramius]

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.

[zzyzzx]

Porn should be an option in the poll.

[pyscrow]

www.netscape.com. coz that was the default page when I first fired up Netscape 2.0.

[Ripper2860]

Prodigy with the little proprietary terminals.

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.

I remember "walking the terminator" to find where the cable problem was. Now let's talk old school networking ...

How about Ethernet using Thicknet with Vampire Taps and AUI Transceivers. Those were the days my friend -- long before 10-Base2. Even older were my Corvus Omninet and Arcnet days along with IBM PC Net, 3Com 3+Share and Netware 1.0 and 2.0a.

Shit -- I'm dating myself.

[ViRaL1]

Anyone remember Mosaic?

My roommate worked on Mosaic. The first site I went to was the Mosaic homepage. I was on 28.8 dial-up on a SLIP account the U of I.