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

Wesser · 10-07-2017 12:58AM #1

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 · 10-07-2017 01:01AM

CompuServe chat rooms.

bear1 · 10-07-2017 01:03AM

Britney spears naked

Muppet Man · 10-07-2017 01:10AM

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 · 10-07-2017 01:12AM

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 · 10-07-2017 01:12AM

Most answeor are going to be porn related

Shpudnik · 10-07-2017 01:13AM

jamesbere wrote: »

Most honest answeor are going to be porn related

FYP

FireFoxBoy · 10-07-2017 01:13AM

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

Canis Lupus · 10-07-2017 01:16AM

Yahoo chat rooms and chess.

thee glitz · 10-07-2017 01:19AM

Rotten.com

LostHiigaran · 10-07-2017 01:24AM

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 · 10-07-2017 01:34AM

napster

tomwaterford · 10-07-2017 01:36AM

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 · 10-07-2017 01:37AM

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 · 10-07-2017 01:42AM

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 · 10-07-2017 01:42AM

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 · 10-07-2017 01:45AM

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

We didn't get Internet until 2000

KungPao · 10-07-2017 02:14AM

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

Outlaw Pete · 10-07-2017 02:15AM

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 · 10-07-2017 02:40AM

Average Penis Length...

antodeco · 10-07-2017 04:06AM

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

pickarooney · 10-07-2017 06:05AM

Alt.rec.humor I think

diomed · 10-07-2017 07:39AM

PokerStars

TerrorFirmer · 10-07-2017 07:46AM

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 · 10-07-2017 07:47AM

Emily Dickinson poetry, Nirvana lyrics, chatrooms, boobs.

Samaris · 10-07-2017 08:25AM

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

s3rtvdbwfj81ch · 10-07-2017 08:51AM

Samaris wrote: »

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

also

Welcome to Zombocom

Beta Ray Bill · 10-07-2017 08:57AM

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 · 10-07-2017 09:03AM

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

MilesMorales1 · 10-07-2017 09:09AM

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

glenfieldman · 10-07-2017 09:24AM

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

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

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