First website you visited

Bluesky · by **Andrew** on Wed Jun 18, 2008 4:15 pm

(Yes, another nostalgia thread of sorts.)

Do you remember the very first website you visited when you were introduced to the Internet?

I didn't get online until August 1997 when the family finally got connected. Technically, the very first page we brought up was one we went to so we could claim some bonus hours for our first month but after that, the very first website I pulled up was NBA.com. I followed the 97/98 season closer than any season before it since I no longer had to rely on the Game of the Week, NBA Action, magazines or newspapers for my NBA fix.

Within the first week of being online, I also discovered patches for the original Need for Speed that unlocked everything and some track editors which I immediately tried out. I also discovered the NLSC and the world of NBA Live patching. I remember being quite excited by the idea that my created Michael Jordan in NBA Live 96 could have a proper bio and retired players could be overwritten.

by **Lamrock** on Wed Jun 18, 2008 4:23 pm

The MSN start page in March 2000.

Bluesky · by **Andrew** on Wed Jun 18, 2008 4:28 pm

What about after that?

Come to think of it, most people's very first website probably will be the startup page for MSN or their ISP, or perhaps the website of the company that sold them their computer (or Apple's Livestart page for Mac users). So I guess I'm technically referring to the second page for most people; the first one by choice.

by **Jing** on Wed Jun 18, 2008 5:29 pm

I honestly don't really remember the first time I used the internet. I am gonna guess its most likely right after I came to U.S. in 96 and my dad was helping me set up a email. I still have and use that email :lol:

So I guess probably the Yahoo start-up page.

YouTube · by **JaoSming** on Wed Jun 18, 2008 8:21 pm

Very first I guess was hotmail. But the first one I visited frequently was something called Punch Baby (they have changed since the old days). It was really before it's time with viral videos and of course had a wanking section so it really was a one stop shop for me, haha.

NLSC did follow close behind that though.

EDIT: I just actually shuddered to remember that google wasn't prominent back in the day.

Bluesky · by **Andrew** on Wed Jun 18, 2008 8:27 pm

Altavista was the first search engine I used, back when a search presented you with a more limited range of results.

by **Laxation** on Wed Jun 18, 2008 9:45 pm

The first thing I remember, I looked up porn...

I was in grade 4 i think.

by **Sauru** on Wed Jun 18, 2008 10:00 pm

shit when i first started useing the internet i just used aol and the chat rooms. cant think of any websites that i visited near the start. damn it now i am sitting here trying my best to think of what the hell i used to look at on the net back then, it was a long time ago

by **Oskar** on Wed Jun 18, 2008 11:05 pm

Lays.ee or something. I saw it in a commercial and it had so many colours everywhere etc., so one day I went to my classmates place and told him I will show him something cool, and I went there. I was like 8 years old maybe. :lol:

by **cyanide** on Thu Jun 19, 2008 4:10 am

Oh god, I first started using the internet shortly after the technology became public. I'm talking about a few websites that existed. Yahoo, aol.com, microsoft.com and nba.com is a few that comes to mind. If I wasn't 11ish years old, I would've invested in and bought a lot of domain names that probably would've made me a multi-millionaire right now.

Edit: Geocities! That thing was huge! Not anymore!

by **Joe'** on Thu Jun 19, 2008 4:37 am

My mom worked as a webmaster for a kids' website back in the day, '96 I think it was, so that probably was the first website I visited. Of course I can't remember, I was just four back then. I think that website still hasn't been taken down.

I remember most of the time I spent online was on ICQ. Back when the person you were chatting with could see what you were typing while you were doing so.

My most visited page was probably Cyberjuegos.com. I used to play pool online. One game took ages, since I was on a 512 kbps broadband connection (which was like blazing fast in the late 90's).

by **GaZuN** on Thu Jun 19, 2008 4:56 am

2006 - www.NBA.com /// Classic (Y)

by **Wormy10** on Thu Jun 19, 2008 5:21 am

Probably something along the lines of school research or something.. But when i got my own computer the first website would of had to been www.nabiscogames.com haha.. Pretty good games back in the Middle School days..

by **Sauru** on Thu Jun 19, 2008 5:44 am

persiankitty, that was one of my very first, got it from a aol chat room lol. only took me all day to think of 1

by **Fitzy** on Thu Jun 19, 2008 8:59 am

Laxation wrote:The first thing I remember, I looked up porn...

I was in grade 4 i think.

i was gonna say the same thing

its concerning

by **[Q]** on Thu Jun 19, 2008 9:28 am

honestly i didn't really look up porn on the computer until i was like 16 or so. and i really looked up the soft core stuff lol

by **Joe'** on Thu Jun 19, 2008 9:31 am

The soft core stuff?

:lol:

Don't you get cable?

by **Lamrock** on Thu Jun 19, 2008 9:53 am

Andrew wrote:What about after that?

TMAlliance if I'm not mistaken.

by **Its_asdf** on Thu Jun 19, 2008 10:30 am

Qballer wrote:honestly i didn't really look up porn on the computer until i was like 16 or so. and i really looked up the soft core stuff lol

"A NIPPLE! OH NOES ITS HAPPENING DOWN MY PANTS!"

by **deihatein** on Thu Jun 19, 2008 8:43 pm

Yahoo, would be my first website i visited. Then after that is the Yahoo mail page thing. Then after that is my first ever e-mail add that i use to register to sites that is not good for kids 13 and below :lol:

by **The X** on Thu Jun 19, 2008 10:17 pm

Like Andrew, I took a beeline straight to nba.com. Funny thing now is I never go there anymore.

by **Jackal** on Thu Jun 19, 2008 10:25 pm

Same here, but my reasoning is the layout. It's a fricking mess. Before it was crisp/clear and simple.

God damn clutter all over the place now.

Bluesky · by **Andrew** on Fri Jun 20, 2008 12:35 am

The X wrote:Like Andrew, I took a beeline straight to nba.com. Funny thing now is I never go there anymore.

I look up player profiles and other resources for the roster updates and occasionally might look up something in the history section but apart from that I rarely visit the front page anymore.

Jackal wrote:Same here, but my reasoning is the layout. It's a fricking mess. Before it was crisp/clear and simple.

God damn clutter all over the place now.

Agreed. It's not ugly per se but it does seem a bit cluttered, a bit too busy. Yahoo! NBA and RealGM's wiretap have become my first stop for NBA news.

by **Drex** on Fri Jun 20, 2008 2:43 am

I think it was El Coliseo, some gaming site that doesn't exist anymore.

by **Sauru** on Fri Jun 20, 2008 2:59 am

speaking of ugly websites pr poor designs, movies.com just changed thier website and i used to go there almost every day but since the change its all confusing now lol. i have not been back to try and figure it out

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