Do you Remember...

[whitewhiskey]

A big thing for a lot of dopes on the internet is being "First". You probably on every other youtube and image post, but let me ask you this, oh experienced denizens of the interwebz...

Do you remember...your first website?

No of your design, not your browser's default homepage, but that first page you visited that started you on the path we walk. Feel free to share stories.

Mine was Stickdeath. My older brother had been showing me how to use our new computer and I was maybe nine or ten, and some of those were the funniest thing in my young mind. I think the site is still up, come to think of it...

Anyone else?

 

[PCHeintz72]

I would imagine... logically, that the first page most would see is either the page of their ISP at the time... or whatever the homepage of the computer was at the time.

Depending exactly how you are defining this... it either would have been CompuServe log on page, or Corecomm home page.

 

[whitewhiskey]

I would imagine... logically, that the first page most would see is either the page of their ISP at the time... or whatever the homepage of the computer was at the time.

Depending exactly how you are defining this... it either would have been CompuServe log on page, or Corecomm home page.

That's why I specified not your browser default homepage and stuff like that

 

[MastaofBitches]

I think mine was Supercheats...

 

[da_fox2279]

If I recall correctly (and it has been a long time, combined with the fact that my memory tends to be faulty these days), my first website was Richard Lawson's fanfic page. Then Greenbean's Fiction page. Which led me to the Curse of the Fanboys! page.

Of course, given I was in my very early 20's at the time, my first webpage to visit was probably porn.

 

[NuitTombee]

Newgrounds was the first site that I specifically intended to go to. Games, art, porn and music, what more could a teenager ask for. That was about 13 years ago.

 

[Shirotsume]

Off the top of my head, I remember using altavista to search for yahoo mail's page, because yahoo mail had just been released and I wanted an email address.

Wikipedia puts that at roughly '97, but I know I was using it before that. I just don't know what what websites.

 

[akun50]

I honestly don't recall my first website that I myself went to, but I do recall that the first one I ever saw was the UPS website on my brother's boss's computer.

If we drop that, and any required ones from school, I believe it was a comedy site that my brother found with all sorts of D&D jokes. It had the first reference I'd ever heard of the infamous Gazebo story.

 

[Schema]

neopets?

 

[ThreadWeaver]

In 1991, on a Sun Graphical Workstation, one of only 3 in the CSCI labs at the time capable of graphical desktops based on Unix. All the other mainframe internet accessible terminals were text WYSE terms.

I think it was a NCSA Mosiac listing page pointing to a Major research university site list if I recall correctly. My own university didn't even have a web page yet so I can't even claim that.

We didn't have search engines back then. The only way to access something was to be pointed there by a listing page and then save the location, and pass the links around by e-mail. There were no real businesses online yet. Yahoo later got its footing by being a site listing page.

And there was porn... lots of porn available by News Lists. Alt.rec. and so on... all MIME encoded.

 

[Watashiwa]

I really can't remember my first website, I was just that young 20 years ago. I suspect either usenet or id's website, to look for more info on Commander Keen. First fansite was an ancient one-off Evangelion site, which launched me to Evangelion X and then FF.net for Evangelion. That was several years later, though.

 

[Mick]

Homepageofthedead.com for me fanfiction wise if I remember right.

 

[T.L]

A C64 Bulletin Board about 1984
If you count BB's as internet.