After reading DAROckets reply in the "What brought you to ClutchCity?" thread, I decided to make a similar one. So, what was the first website you ever visited? I'd have to say my first was in 1995. I had just gotten a fancy new 486mhz computer with a COLOR monitor!!! My parents signed up for AOL and we got the AOL 2.0 5.25" floppy disk in the mail. I installed it and was ready to surf the web on my 2400 baud modem. Unfortunately AOL 2.0 didn't come integrated with a web browser and Win 3.0 didn't have IE. I had one lone friend in high school who would surf the web constantly. He kept telling me to download the AOL browser, but I wouldn't b/c it would take 15 hours with my slow connection. Finally I left my AOL connection on for an entire night and downloaded the browser. This was before AOL was popular and they had that mechanism to disconnect a user after 'x' period of time. So the next day I got the browser up and running and I went straight to... espn.com. I think I read an article about an Emmitt Smith injury. I can't believe I actually remember this. Especially considering I'm the same guy who forgets whether he shampooed his hair at the end of a shower! (and often gets back in and does it just in case) So, who else can dig that far back in their mind to remember the first web site they ever visited?
Damn. I can't even imagine when that was. It must have been about the time I was in college. But it was rare back then. I'm thinking Netscape and Mosaic. I'm thinking maybe 1992-93. I'm pretty sure it was a rocket related site too. Although I have no idea who it belonged to. But it was probably ESPN if that existed. I'm trying to remember my first email to: It was probably in 1989. Using some system called a vax or something. I was on that all day writing in green text. It was very exciting. I wrote a letter to David Klingler and he wrote back to me in New York.
I remember the days of using gopher on a telnet session to a UNIX system, and then mosaic on the Sun (I think) workstations. The first website was http://www.dur.ac.uk, which was where I was at university.
At school in third grade(94'?) I remember my teacher was looking at some site on mayan ruins and I got on. Yep, boring mayan ruins were my introduction to this great information highway.
The computer I used to first access the net was a 486 SX - 25mhz with 128mb HARD DRIVE and 1mb RAM that, OH BY THE WAY cost $1400. I think my situation was like yours but we had Prodigy (remember that) and we could use it to do the grocery shopping (worst idea ever). I believe we were limited to what we could access as well.
VH1.com Right after they fired me in 98, I went to Kinkos in Manhattan, got logged on, asked some dude to access the site and I began writing anonymous complaints as to why the 'guy with the glasses' wasn't there anymore.
I'm pretty sure my first website was www.phish.com.. What can I say? I'm a huge fan of the band! ESPN was probably a close second.
www.espn.com, and I was dumb enough to pay for Insider services immediately bc it was the day after the Barkley trade and I wanted to read someone's analysis. That was back when a bunch of their front page stories were insider stories...what a scam. After that www.dead.net
It was in 95 at college, I think it was NBA.com, because thats the only web site that I really knew. Sad but true, and now I dont even go to that joke of a site After that it was probably webcrawler, to search for p*rn , hey what can I say, I was 18 alone and in college, at least I am being honest
I don't remember. It was so long ago. Back in 1994, I did email through Telnet, but had never browsed any webpages. One of my friends who was nice enough to keep writing me email all summer said that he was "playing with Mosaic". I didn't know what that meant. Eventually, I found a place to open up Mosaic and try it. I think it gave me my college's webpage, and I went first to the personal pages of all the computer geeks and followed the links there. I used to play with something called the "Revolving Door" which would give you random links to strange places. I also used to use Yahoo a lot, when it was just a comprehensive list of everything that was on the Internet, grouped by subject.
I used to be into local BBSs (Spitfire, etc..). Anyone else remember old BBS games like 'Legend Of The Red Dragon'? Anyway, I think my first website was either www.nba.com or www.chathouse.com
No idea, although it was almost certainly academic-related. The first site I remember visiting with any regularity was the Trojan room coffee machine, (http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/coffee/coffee.html). Definitely a case of loving the concept (and showing it to others) more than any real interest in the coffee...
It was a number of years ago, and I was visiting at my brother's house. He had internet access and I did not. I wanted to see pictures of the Mars rocks from the Mars expedition, so I typed in "www.nasa.com." Within seconds of my first internet experience, I was offered tantilizing naked teenage girls .... My family thought it was hilarious.
