What was the first thing you looked up when the internet first came out?

Wesser

Do you remember when the internet first came out?
What was the first thing you looked up
My dad said to me.... you can look up anything in the world.
I couldn't think of anything to look up and Sonia o Sullivan was the big news at the time as she had just win a big medal.
So the first thing I looked up was Sonia o Sullivan.
So I'm thinking it was 1993 or else 1995.
Do you remember the first time you did d'h'internet.

bodice ripper

CompuServe chat rooms.

bear1

Britney spears naked

Muppet Man

Had one computer in college connected to the internet via Netscape I think in 93. We all had a gawk at playboy... they had one free nude image... took about 30 seconds to load it....

Other than that it was text based chat rooms and unix chat, talking to someone at the other end of the room...

somefeen

Pictures of cars.

There was once a website that aimed to have a picture of every car ever produced and as a kid I must have spent hours on it. I even printed off low res pictures of my favourites for my bedroom wall.

I haven't looked for it but I suppose google image search killed it off

jamesbere

Most answeor are going to be porn related

Shpudnik

jamesbere wrote: »

Most honest answeor are going to be porn related

FYP

FireFoxBoy

I think it was coca cola's website and then, the spice girls.

Canis Lupus

Yahoo chat rooms and chess.

thee glitz

Rotten.com

LostHiigaran

First time I used the internet was looking for game cheats.

A few months after it was chat-rooms, MSN messenger and some fan forums (Silent Hill).

refusetolose

napster

tomwaterford

Dancing hamsters


This is actually ture....we were in primary school and one lad came over and typed in for me

Dont think it was even google then :eek:

Outlaw Pete

I remember it like it was yesterday........

It was 1997 and I had never used a computer before (other than played some games on a Commodore 64 in the late 80's). Then one day I was on George's St and I seen that Laser DVD had a sign in the window saying there was a new Internet Cafe open in their basement. Back then the Internet was known as the information super highway more than anything else and so I just tried to think about something I didn't know that I always wanted to know... and the first thing I could think of was 'How did Gary Holton die?' as I loved Auf Wiedersehen Pet and never knew what the hell had happened to him.

So in I went in and I must have asked the guy 20 or more questions about how to the simplest of things like increase the size of a window etc. Found some Auf Wiedersehen Pet fansite and so soon found out what happened Gary. Then I found myself wondering what else was online and after a quick glance around to see if there was anyone looking.... into AltaVista I typed 'Drew Barrymore's Playboy Pics' and me and the Internet have been inseparable ever since.

Jesus Wept

I haven't a breeze. Maybe Liverpool transfer rumours, or if I was alone, boobs.

Muppet Man wrote: »

Had one computer in college connected to the internet via Netscape I think in 93. We all had a gawk at playboy... they had one free nude image... took about 30 seconds to load it....

Other than that it was text based chat rooms and unix chat, talking to someone at the other end of the room...

they must have had a savage connection tbf

jca

Mamod steam engines I kid you not. A spoilt next door neighbours kid had one and I always wanted one. They're rubbish now compared to the one he had in the 70's

gammygils

AltaVista :pac: And my favourite soccer team's website - qpr.co.uk

We didn't get Internet until 2000

KungPao

**** knows, but probably a search engine like Ask Jeeves, then "Pamela Anderson nude".

Outlaw Pete

My second time on the Internet was a little more productive than being merely about my own sexual gratification...........

Later that night when I got home I remembered that some old guy had been bugging my mam where she worked in a charity shop in town for an autobiography by some army guy. He said he had been under his command and would love to read his account of those years as the guy had since died. I'd asked around for the book in a few second hand book shops and checked with the library etc but nobody had even heard of it so I had kinda just forgotten about...... until that night and my stint on the net made me think of it again.

So anyway, either later that night or the next day I went back in and I found some second hand book portal wesbsite and a few places had it but it was $300+ in most for what all seemed to be first editions but one of them was selling it for $35 or something close to it. Fecking thing was in Canada though but I sure bought it a few days later anyway.

Took a good while to arrive from what I remember but gave it to my mam and said I found it in some second hand bookshop. Over the next months I kept asking her did the old guy ever come back but the answer was always 'No' until one day she phoned me and said he had walked past in the rain earlier that day and shouted in something like 'Don't suppose that book ever turned up?'. In the end he couldn't afford the £45 price the shop put on it but sure that was his problem is the way we looked at it. Only messing. Price was £1.50 or something and he was delighted with it.

jigglypuffstuff

Average Penis Length...

antodeco

Trying to create a Hotmail account. Failed miserably. Second time was iolfree chatrooms I think

pickarooney

Alt.rec.humor I think

diomed

PokerStars

TerrorFirmer

Can't remember, but one of my first strong memories is of the time someone created the website bertieahern.com and demanded he be paid off by the Government after plastering it with porn.

Some good info here.

s3rtvdbwfj81ch

Emily Dickinson poetry, Nirvana lyrics, chatrooms, boobs.

Loveinapril

Tupac. I had a ringbinder folder where I added pictures, lyrics and facts. I was obsessed!

Samaris

Yikes, I don't remember. The first thing I -remember- looking up was the Hamster Dance. doo doo doo doodoo doodoodoo...

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Samaris wrote: »

Yikes, I don't remember. The first thing I -remember- looking up was the Hamster Dance. doo doo doo doodoo doodoodoo...

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Beta Ray Bill

Any sort of free Porn website.

Alas there were none back in those days!

You'd have to wait 20 mins for a 15 second clip to download too.
Ya really needed to plan it out....

GarIT

Bebo. I got the internet for the purpose of using Bebo.

MilesMorales1

I think it was the Nintendo website after I got a CD-Rom with my magazine that connected you to the official website.

glenfieldman

somefeen wrote: »

Pictures of cars.

There was once a website that aimed to have a picture of every car ever produced and as a kid I must have spent hours on it. I even printed off low res pictures of my favourites for my bedroom wall.

I haven't looked for it but I suppose google image search killed it off

Haha, bingo, there was a internet cafe near my job so id go in for a hour, £5 per hour. Id used to look up the Italian exotics

Hector Savage

1st thing was the complete results of the 1995 Mens French Open (Thomas Muster won btw).

How boring

Then I used to have my friends get pics of Counsellor Troi from Star Trek topless !! he'd bring them to me on a floppy !!

great days

darkdubh

Circa 1997. First thing I looked up was frisbees as had been playing frisbee with a friend in the park and it was the first thing that came to mind. I remember being kind of taken aback that were websites dedicated to it.

The_Valeyard

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Jesus Wept

Outlaw Pete wrote: »

My second time on the Internet was a little more productive than being merely about my own sexual gratification...........

Later that night when I got home I remembered that some old guy had been bugging my mam where she worked in a charity shop in town for an autobiography by some army guy. He said he had been under his command and would love to read his account of those years as the guy had since died. I'd asked around for the book in a few second hand book shops and checked with the library etc but nobody had even heard of it so I had kinda just forgotten about...... until that night and my stint on the net made me think of it again.

So anyway, either later that night or the next day I went back in and I found some second hand book portal wesbsite and a few places had it but it was $300+ in most for what all seemed to be first editions but one of them was selling it for $35 or something close to it. Fecking thing was in Canada though but I sure bought it a few days later anyway.

Took a good while to arrive from what I remember but gave it to my mam and said I found it in some second hand bookshop. Over the next months I kept asking her did the old guy ever come back but the answer was always 'No' until one day she phoned me and said he had walked past in the rain earlier that day and shouted in something like 'Don't suppose that book ever turned up?'. In the end he couldn't afford the £45 price the shop put on it but sure that was his problem is the way we looked at it. Only messing. Price was £1.50 or something and he was delighted with it.

Then you started amazon.com?

ScrubsfanChris

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You didn't have internet until 2003?

Think my first was a simpsons/futurama fan site. (Possibly the site that became "No Homers")
Wasn't old enough to be interested in boobs yet :pac:

Mrs OBumble

When I first used the internet (UseNet groups in 1988), it wasn't possible to look things up. Well not in the way most people have described here.

Bandana boy

1993 and I looked up the white house Web Page as it was one of the few places that had one.
It had an e-mail the president page , which I did and funnily enough another student did the same soon after and got in massive trouble as he included a death threat.

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AtomicHorror

bodice ripper wrote: »

CompuServe chat rooms.

+1 for Compuserve and chat rooms around 1993 - 94. Got to chat with Americans would you believe?

Prior to that (1990 - 1992 ish), BBS via dialup- not really internet but sure it was all we had in the early 90's. Nemesis Dungeon was the first, I think.

No, actually, the Sierra Online BBS for walk through for one of their more maddening PC games.

Rhyme

To look up the online portions of a video encyclopaedia we received with our Gateway computer. The world got a lot bigger once that managed to load.

pickarooney

Bandana boy wrote: »

1993 and I looked up the white house Web Page as it was one of the few places that had one.
It had an e-mail the president page , which I did and funnily enough another student did the same soon after and got in massive trouble as he included a death threat.

Was that in DCU?

Don't remember the first thing but I remember using oceanfree chat a lot. Back in those days if someone told you they were Amy, 15 from Carlow they were in fact Amy, 15 from Carlow. Not Brian, 47 from Texas.

circadian

Pretty sure newgrounds was my first visit around 95 or 96. Possibly b0g.org if it existed then.

Bandana boy

pickarooney wrote: »

Was that in DCU?

It was indeed , cant remember the kids name who got in trouble but I remember he did Magic in the canteen during Rag week

LadyMacBeth_

I got the internet at home in about 2000, I was 12 then so I think I spent most of my time looking up porn, using chatrooms (mostly to have cybersex, anyone even remember that phrase?) :P , downloading music on napster and doing quizzes on thespark.com such as ''the death test''. Also liked to look up rotten.com to see apparently dead celebrity autopsy pictures.

pickarooney

Bandana boy wrote: »

It was indeed , cant remember the kids name who got in trouble but I remember he did Magic in the canteen during Rag week

Yeah, that sounds like chap all right. We got up to some shenanigans with the old fake sender emails back then.

HowItsMade

early 2000's looked up our first names as kids which inevitably brought us to porn...strangely enough all we typed in was "shane"

Weird the things you remember.

JoeyJJ

asl

some chatrooms for starters, but now I want to know what happened that guy from Aufweidesehen pet.

BetsyEllen

I remember this very clearly. When I was a kid my Dad setting up the computer and sorting the internet, think it was AOL that you downloaded with a CD?

Anyway we got it up and running and my Dad said I could do the typing, I was all excited and feeling very grown up :P

I asked him what we should look at and he decided 'gardening' so my first internet search was that.

I also remember he then wanted to send an email to some family in America and we didn't have a clue what we were doing, we typed in my Uncle's email address as [EMAIL="'www.unclesemail@whatever.com'"]'www.unclesemail@whatever.com'[/EMAIL] because we thought that's what you had to do, haha