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

Hector Savage · 10-07-2017 09:33AM

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 · 10-07-2017 10:29AM

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 · 10-07-2017 10:43AM

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Jesus Wept · 10-07-2017 12:57PM

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 · 10-07-2017 01:52PM

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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 · 10-07-2017 02:19PM

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 · 10-07-2017 02:22PM

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.

s3rtvdbwfj81ch · 10-07-2017 02:36PM

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AtomicHorror · 10-07-2017 02:36PM

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 · 10-07-2017 02:44PM

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 · 10-07-2017 02:44PM

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?

10-07-2017 02:53PM

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.

10-07-2017 02:53PM

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

Bandana boy · 10-07-2017 02:54PM

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_ · 10-07-2017 02:56PM

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 · 10-07-2017 03:09PM

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 · 10-07-2017 03:14PM

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 · 10-07-2017 03:15PM

asl

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

BetsyEllen · 10-07-2017 03:19PM

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

Winterlong · 10-07-2017 03:19PM

I remember before the internet going to techie bulletin boards to get drivers for a palm.

Then once the internet came out it was only at work. So could not look up porn.
So used it for news and sports and movie reviews. Yawn.

Irish Guitarist · 10-07-2017 03:54PM

I didn't get my hands anywhere near the internet until 1997 when I did this FAS type thing in a kind of an office. I did a Google search for Jimi Hendrix.

Mutant z · 10-07-2017 04:04PM

To be honest i have no idea.

Syphonax · 10-07-2017 04:05PM

Sarah Michelle Geller Hot

branie2 · 10-07-2017 04:05PM

Michael Collins

ilkhanid · 10-07-2017 04:24PM

Stuff about Babylon 5 , a show I was very into....and then scantily-clad ladies soon after.

Galwayguy35 · 10-07-2017 07:27PM

Only got the internet in 2009, first thing I did was try and get myself an email account.

After that had a look at the porn sites.

Mech1 · 10-07-2017 07:31PM

Leisure Suit Larry walkthrough

soups05 · 10-07-2017 07:39PM

late 90's was when i first got online, I clearly remember the first search I did, pre google, ask jeeves i think it was. I looked up "how to be safe online" as I was trying to be very careful with this "new" technology. Then I probably spent the next few hours downloading anti virus, firewall etc on the good ole dial up.

I think I was online for about a week before some chat room informed me there was naked stuff on the webs, the rest is history ( of sprained wrists and eye bleaching)

10-07-2017 07:42PM

Haven't a clue. Was very young. Most likely something at school. I remember in primary school we had one computer in the computer room (of about 30 computers) that could connect to the internet. It had loads of cables sticking out of it and only one teacher could use the internet.

When we first got a computer and the internet at home in around 2002 I was obsessed with Neopets. :pac:

lertsnim · 10-07-2017 07:44PM

Napster

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

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