I have a very early memory of being showed a grey web page with just a list of blue hyperlinks, extremely rudimentary. I think it was an early form of Yahoo! search.
The first thing I remember doing on the web unsupervised was looking up cheat codes for N64 games on Ask Jeeves.
Depends on what you call “online”.
I would say Q-Link on a commodore 64.
“Welcome!”
This is about all I can remember for my first online experience. Just remember opening AOL and not exactly knowing what else to do except click around random links, looking at whatever websites I came across, all with that classic 90s basic HTML look.
“You’ve got mail!”
Yoshitopia messageboard, probably. Obviously wasn’t the very first thing I ever did online, but it must have been an early find.
Oh god, or signing up for e-mail at Garfield.com. The web during the dot-com boom was weird.
I vaguely remember watching someone demonstrate email around 1989 or so. It sounded like a way to send messages that very few people could read, in a very difficult way, over a very expensive long phone call. Instead of a letter or phone call. Crazy.
But first contact? Maybe 1993, using a dialup BBS at a local library. I noticed it could launch some sort of browser at a link list with a ton of topics.
Also, some FTP sites. Trying to sneakernet some software home over Kermit transfers and floppies. Didn’t succeed most of the time.
There was a Usenet client with even more reading. I’m not sure if there was even an IRC client or did that come later, but some people were playing MUDs. There was an email client as well, and that started to make a little more sense.
It was a keyhole view into a bigger world. And it would only keep growing.
Rage comics
Actually, it’s probably Yahoo’s search engine
That I was the millionth visitor and I could claim my free iPod.
I remember the “to download this answer this survey and win a free iPad” and being smart enough to know it was a scam but also dumb enough to think it might be real and just enter the info of the vacant house down the road and check it every day to see if it had came
Oo… In ICQ voice
Stick fights and blue waffle/lemon party/hamster dance.
One of these things is not like the other.
Super fly
I liked star trek as a kid, so my dad would download me, I think usenet, messages from a boards discussing it. But he didn’t want me overwhelmed, so maybe only 30 messages a day I could read after school, so I’d get random snippets of people arguing whether Kirk or Picard was better, or discussing the difference in klingons between the two series.
I don’t know what the very first thing was back when I didn’t yet have internet and could only use it when visiting my uncle who did.
But I remember the first site I visited after I had internet myself. I went on the Cartoon Network site to play some of the games they had.
A list of usenet groups on my dad’s computer around 1989. Porn groups, I think, but that may be mixed up with another later memory.
Ask your dad when you’re old enough.
Lol, he’s dead
Not as dead as his joke.
LOL, sorry for you loss.
Besides the dialing sound? Good question. Maybe ICQ sounds… annoyed the hell out of my parents probably
That annoyedme right now, I could hear that uh-oh!
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Porn lol
i remember going on some kind of video game tips website that had user submitted tips. The only one i remember was someone saying that if you did some like, crazy amount of fights in Super Smash Bros 64, you could unlock Goku
