First website?

drunkymonkey

What was the first ever website you clicked onto when you first tried the internet?

I think mine was rotten.com at a friends house when i was like 14 or 15 , 9 years ago! It was fairly popular back in the day! Filled with autopsies and other sick stuff!

So when that dial-up finally got going after about 20 minutes of waiting and you had the freedom of the whole interweb at your fingertips what words did you type into the searchbar?

starflake

Rate my teacher.com back in secondary school me thinks!

IvySlayer

I'm pretty sure it was porn.

ChickCool

porn/chatroom

or it could have been google to locate said porn or chatroom

starflake

It's hard to remember..

James Forde

sex.com

about 10years ago

it was crap

Kiera

I'd say it was something like oceanfree. Cant remember that far back.

JCDUB

thehun.com

Must have been 13/14 years ago now

Anyone who says anything but a porn site/googling for porn is lieing, fact:D

abi2007

Google of course

drunkymonkey

bryanjf wrote: »

sex.com

about 10years ago

it was crap

haha think that might have been my first one on second thought! we had so much faith in it being so good!

Dave!

I think it was eircom or oceanfree's chatroom or somethin

abi2007

Surprised no one has said boards yet..

4zn76tysfajdxp

Some Simpsons fan-site, my brother demonstrated it to me.

It was a biography page dedicated to Ayrton Senna.

Turd Ferguson

Probably unsurprising to most, but goatse

lovemypinkhat

I remember looking up Samantha Mumba's official site back during my first few times on the 'net It's okay I was like 11...or else Terrifichick - I was obsessed with the message boards on that for about three years before they it eventually closed down.

drunkymonkey

I think i went onto get napster and sh1ttalker as well!

ahhh good times prank calling people with sh1ttalker!! :pac: the random insults were quality!

D-Generate

Porn i thinks. As for the exact site, well i don't remember that much.

Krieg

13 years ago, I was 10, on my uncles computer

First website was Altavista
I see its still going

But my first search was for "The children's channel" website, but it didn't exist

Holsten

Yep, deffo porn.

Blisterman

Some simpsons website, around the time of Who Shot Mr Burns?
All I remember thinking is "God, this is slow".

Thnx4theGum

It was bolt.com. I was 14 or 15 at the time and I used the internet from the local library. Someone had set it as the homepage on the computer. It was a lot like this site but aimed at teens. I actually started using the site regularly for a few years.

Frisbee

google

phenomenon

I posted this in "cool vids & pics" forum a little while back.
Must see viewing for internet nostalgia:

http://www.archive.org/web/web.php

Its a web archive search engine. Type in any website address and you can see what the site looked like at a date in the past. The RTE website back in 1996 resembles Aertel teletext. Check what was in the news on CNN on a chosen date or have a laugh at the primitive boards.ie . Early internet porn was ridiculous...

Enjoy

peejay1986

Pringles.com haha

I remember my friend got the internet and about 5 of us went to his to see this wonderful thing. None of us knew any websites so we seen the Pringles site on the tin and went there.

We lasted about 10 seconds...

onemorechance

Yahoo!

homah_7ft

I think I used hypertelnet to look at the anarchist's cookbook.

admiralofthefleet

my first internet was the dreamarena on the old sega dreamcast and the first site i visited was im sure a left handed one

Setun

oceanfree chat ftw.

Adam

peejay1986 wrote: »

Pringles.com haha

I remember my friend got the internet and about 5 of us went to his to see this wonderful thing. None of us knew any websites so we seen the Pringles site on the tin and went there.

We lasted about 10 seconds...

shot the load and fell asleep then? thought so.

piby

I think it was Ebaum's World when I was about 12/13. Back then it was the coolest thing ever, way cooler than Pokemon

towel401

yahoo in '98 or '97 can't remember which

Princess Consuela Bananahammock

starflake wrote: »

Rate my teacher.com back in secondary school me thinks!

starflake wrote: »

It's hard to remember..

Jebus, that's some terrible memory you got there...

antomorro-sei

skoool.ie

Ahh Primary school computer rooms!

Adam

think it was aol something or other back when i was about 10...12 years of internet, wow...

Professey Chin

Giant mountain bikes website.Was dyin to see the new downhill rig
(This woulda been about 9/10 years ago now so probably the old ATX.What a machine)

IvaBigWun

yahoo.co.uk

what I was searching for either I cant remember or I wont say.

eVeNtInE

This post has been deleted.

Terry

Hotmail.com I think followed by some wrestling news site (someone had taken my name, but I got it eventually).
Was around the time of the Monday night wars (which will be gibberish to all but wrestling fans).

AlmightyCushion

Google. I had no idea what to do after that.

musicmonky

no one used Prestel ....?


i used good old Gopher on the internet back in the day downloading ascii art... cause there wasnt any websites

god im old.

oh my god, I had forgotten about rotten.com - man there was some freaky sh1t on there.......

S.I.R

mine:



a car site, forget which tbh

towel401

musicmonky wrote: »

no one used Prestel ....?


i used good old Gopher on the internet back in the day downloading ascii art... cause there wasnt any websites

god im old.

i remember looking for gophers in '98 and not being able to get into them for some reason. although i do remember looking at 1 or 2 of them back in the day on my 486 and thinking 'is that all?' i was expecting a full blown virtual reality thing from the obscure gopher:// thing. now i run my own gopher server for nostalgic reasons

half pint

Think it was the Irish Times website

I was about 9 at the time, it had something to do with school I'm sure

unclebill98

rotten.com

Not a good one to look at for your 1st time to use the internet.... Was in college in 98....
I've never looked at it since....

drunkymonkey

unclebill98 wrote: »

rotten.com

Not a good one to look at for your 1st time to use the internet.... Was in college in 98....
I've never looked at it since....

it's still going!! still looks the exact same!

/shudders :eek:

Kinetic^

Hotmail.com I reckon.

unclebill98

drunkymonkey wrote: »

it's still going!! still looks the exact same!

/shudders :eek:

Does it. I think it may have scared me for life

Nehaxak

Do Bulletin Boards count ? If so then I can't remember which one would've been my first, whole plethora of them from my Amiga days, Forbidden Planet being one of the most memorable.

If they don't count then accessing the web on Lynx browser via dialup into some Unix system and getting all nerdy giggly reading boring US uni sites.

Proper graphical browsing I first did via Mosaic Browser on the Amiga, the first site opened probably aminet.net which I still have bookmarked and view, for nostalgia reasons mostly.

EDIT: Thinking of the Amiga, I just realised I got my first one in 1986 which is like 23 years ago along with an acoustic modem a couple years later in a wooden case/box and well now I feel really fkin old

Leprachaun

AskJeeves or Happy Puppy. *goes to check if happy puppy is still around*