First website?

towel401 · 20-01-2009 07:23PM

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

Princess Consuela Bananahammock · 20-01-2009 07:25PM

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 · 20-01-2009 07:49PM

skoool.ie

Ahh Primary school computer rooms!

Adam · 20-01-2009 07:56PM

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

Professey Chin · 20-01-2009 07:58PM

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 · 20-01-2009 07:59PM

yahoo.co.uk

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

eVeNtInE · 20-01-2009 08:02PM

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Terry · 20-01-2009 08:51PM

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 · 20-01-2009 08:52PM

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

musicmonky · 20-01-2009 09:54PM

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.

20-01-2009 09:56PM

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

S.I.R · 20-01-2009 10:18PM

mine:

a car site, forget which tbh

towel401 · 20-01-2009 10:18PM

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 · 20-01-2009 10:33PM

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 · 20-01-2009 11:22PM

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 · 20-01-2009 11:25PM

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^ · 20-01-2009 11:30PM

Hotmail.com I reckon.

unclebill98 · 20-01-2009 11:30PM

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 · 20-01-2009 11:48PM

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 · 20-01-2009 11:50PM

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

6th · 20-01-2009 11:55PM

excite.com .... not as hot as it sounds but it was kinda like google back in the day (15 years ago).

Setun · 21-01-2009 12:06AM

I'd like to say I was around for the beginning of the internet, but I wasn't: wwwwwwwww.jodi.org

keen · 21-01-2009 12:31AM

rotten.com back in the day.

yoyo · 21-01-2009 12:39AM

Shockwave.com

. Dont think it ever got anywhere though, games looked great by the pics but the load just took to long so I gave up after a few minutes! :pac: .

Nick

Rory123 · 21-01-2009 12:53AM

eircom.net... like a lot of people, we got the free eircom cd to set up the net on dial up... I think our first PC had an external modem too.

tommmy1979 · 21-01-2009 01:14AM

Ultimate Chin wrote: »

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)

some mountainbike website for me too... think it might have been mbuk or something.. earlier though, 96 ish and it was on an apple mac classic