Do you remember which was the first internet page you saw?
I remember it clearly: rotten.com (doesn't exist anymore apparently).
I was about 12. It was a collection of disgusting/disturbing image of all kind. Yeah the guy who showed me I discovered later have serious mental health.
#weirdstr #memories
I think mine was some final fantasy 7 fanpage. Rotten was also one of the early ones I saw 😅
Some dragon ball z website, back when internet dial up costed an arm and a leg. I downloaded all the cool Goku pictures and my family paid them dearly 🤣
Started with Gopher pre Netscape days looking up papers and trying to ditch going to the microfiche booths at the library😂
Never heard about those, maybe Netscape but bot sure 😅
This was the vibe - fucking revolutionary ha...
My earliest memory of the internet is neopets.
Dude imagine nowadays your earliest memory of the internet is TikTok ☠️☠️
Constant stream of information to ultimately sell you stuff 😬
Geocities (webpage editor/builder). So much fun
You were a Node-Nerd msince day one I see 🤩😁🫂
I was wasting time also playing Prince of Persia.. lol
The earlier website I remember is https://tesladownunder.com which fortunately is still up!
The owner started sharing his projects on the page around 2005 which was just about 4 months after I first had access to a computer.
WOW! THIS IS GREAT! An amazing start to surf on internet!
Right!? I was hooked the moment I realized the internet was a wide open place where builders and creators could share and open source their projects.
As a kid who was obsessed with understanding how things worked and had an engineering bent, the internet was a breath of fresh air and led to a huge decline in the frequency of my library visits.
I was the teen building 13' cannons in my backyard and mixing up thermite from manufacturing tailings.
I was assembling banks of electrostatic capacitors I'd assembled from 2-liter bottles in milk crates in my basement, charging them up with a giant CRT television with it's screen plastered with aluminum foil, and seeing how much voltage I could store on my own body as I sat atop a DIY throne made of Styrofoam and lit up light bulbs just by holding them in my hands.
Tesladownunder was right up my alley.
I don't remember which was the first internet page I saw. I just remember searching for Dragon Ball mangas to read online.
Yahoo was actually better at searching for those things than Google was.
We are many.. dragon ball was the bible of our generation ahahahh
I remember going to the library and asking the clerk when the next ones would come out. I would do this often 😂
Having hard time Remembering what my first experience with the internet was...😅 I do remember fourms.
Don't know about fourms.. you must have been very young when you started?
"What was your first word?"
cout << "START" << endl;
(I don't know what I wrote..)
It was put in front of a computer at a pretty early age. 😅 I do remember how much pain in the ass dial up was. At least in retrospect.
Actually, I do remember when I first figured out how to use telnet. You used to be able to telnet into an email server and send an email as whoever you wanted.
The old www.yahoo.com
Old naughtydog site downloading Crash Bandicoot wallpapers ? I'm not certain but I think
I was trying to think through this and I think I had the internet for a few years before I even used the web. A friend gave me installs for mIRC and ICQ and I had AOL messanger from somewhere maybe AOL.com, but wow its a weird thought. I mostly used it to talk on mIRC/ICQ and play games peer to peer until Ultima Online came out. Interesting thought experiement for young me.
By the answers I noticing a pattern.. the more was strange and based on software/tech interactions the more those people ended up being very skilled with computers or coding in general.
Then there's the one like me who Iike to try, touch with the tip of fingerprint, and move on something else more.. 😅🥲
I was lucky my dad was in IT, I got to play with computers since DOS when I was about 7 or 8. He actually didn't know much about computers because he was in management by then but he knew they were important enough to let me play with them.
Unfortunately I don’t. What I do remember is when I finished school in highest education level that u did not have a smartphone by that time. This was in 2010. only 15years ago. How crazy is that if you compare to the school kids nowadays. Insane. Crazy acceleration of technology. Now, let’s look into the next 15 years from now. Bro let’s be honest we can’t even imagine.
Probably aol homepage
ratemypoo.com
Also doesn't exist any more
