Comments on: Remembering the first websites we ever visited http://thenextweb.com/2009/07/03/remembering-websites-visited/ International technology news, business & culture Wed, 15 Feb 2012 03:24:57 +0100 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Lost http://thenextweb.com/2009/07/03/remembering-websites-visited/#comment-391985 Lost Fri, 03 Jul 2009 21:03:08 +0000 http://thenextweb.com/?p=20598#comment-391985 This is embarrassing and I wish it was some other site. sex.com sometime in late 2000 (I was 15 then). This is embarrassing and I wish it was some other site. sex.com sometime in late 2000 (I was 15 then).

]]> By: Ruud http://thenextweb.com/2009/07/03/remembering-websites-visited/#comment-391984 Ruud Fri, 03 Jul 2009 17:55:03 +0000 http://thenextweb.com/?p=20598#comment-391984 Must have been NCSA Corp's website. I remember the pressconference where Netscape's predesessor presented their first browser which later became Netscape Navigator. Very early 90-ties timeframe Must have been NCSA Corp’s website. I remember the pressconference where Netscape’s predesessor presented their first browser which later became Netscape Navigator. Very early 90-ties timeframe

]]> By: Martin Bryant http://thenextweb.com/2009/07/03/remembering-websites-visited/#comment-391983 Martin Bryant Fri, 03 Jul 2009 16:46:09 +0000 http://thenextweb.com/?p=20598#comment-391983 Okay snarky! :) Maybe it was Geffen's official Beck site. Essentially the same thing, anyway. Okay snarky! :) Maybe it was
Geffen’s official Beck site. Essentially the same thing, anyway.

]]> By: Dave http://thenextweb.com/2009/07/03/remembering-websites-visited/#comment-391982 Dave Fri, 03 Jul 2009 16:19:14 +0000 http://thenextweb.com/?p=20598#comment-391982 Not another one. Yahoo.com didn't exist until 1995 and neither did AltaVista. Not another one. Yahoo.com didn’t exist until 1995 and neither did AltaVista.

]]> By: Dave http://thenextweb.com/2009/07/03/remembering-websites-visited/#comment-391981 Dave Fri, 03 Jul 2009 16:02:07 +0000 http://thenextweb.com/?p=20598#comment-391981 "I was 17, it was 1996 and I was at college... eventually I chose Beck.com." Really? Did you use a time machine to go forward three years to when that domain was first registered? “I was 17, it was 1996 and I was at college… eventually I chose Beck.com.”

Really? Did you use a time machine to go forward three years to when that domain was first registered?

]]> By: Archit http://thenextweb.com/2009/07/03/remembering-websites-visited/#comment-391980 Archit Fri, 03 Jul 2009 14:45:25 +0000 http://thenextweb.com/?p=20598#comment-391980 Hmm... I guess it was yahoo.com although it has been months since I visited it now. :P Hmm… I guess it was yahoo.com although it has been months since I visited it now. :P

]]> By: Peter Boersma http://thenextweb.com/2009/07/03/remembering-websites-visited/#comment-391979 Peter Boersma Fri, 03 Jul 2009 14:23:38 +0000 http://thenextweb.com/?p=20598#comment-391979 You said website, so I guess an intranet page counts too? In that case it was most likely a university intranetpage, shortly after I got my account in April 1, 1994. The first public website was probably a usual suspect: Yahoo.com, although Altavista.com soon became my search engine of choice. During that time I also visited my own webpage a lot, creating using a simple text editor on a Sun computer with a black&white monitor --> quite scary to look at it in color for the first time after a month or so and find out the buttons were bright pink! After I corrected it, it looked somewhat like this: http://web.archive.org/web/19990128101319/http://www.design.nl/~peter/beerpage.html (from its later location at web agency General Design). You said website, so I guess an intranet page counts too?
In that case it was most likely a university intranetpage, shortly after I got my account in April 1, 1994.

The first public website was probably a usual suspect: Yahoo.com, although Altavista.com soon became my search engine of choice.

During that time I also visited my own webpage a lot, creating using a simple text editor on a Sun computer with a black&white monitor –> quite scary to look at it in color for the first time after a month or so and find out the buttons were bright pink! After I corrected it, it looked somewhat like this: http://web.archive.org/web/19990128101319/http://www.design.nl/~peter/beerpage.html (from its later location at web agency General Design).

]]> By: Jack http://thenextweb.com/2009/07/03/remembering-websites-visited/#comment-391978 Jack Fri, 03 Jul 2009 14:21:01 +0000 http://thenextweb.com/?p=20598#comment-391978 Wow, that's indeed some time ago. I remember my laptop computer with PCMCIA-modem of 14k4, trying to log into tmf.nl, since I was invited by phone to chat there with a good friend. This must be around 1996... I remember it took pretty much time to load, and I never reached that chat-part.. Wow, that’s indeed some time ago. I remember my laptop computer with PCMCIA-modem of 14k4, trying to log into tmf.nl, since I was invited by phone to chat there with a good friend. This must be around 1996… I remember it took pretty much time to load, and I never reached that chat-part..

]]> By: Onno http://thenextweb.com/2009/07/03/remembering-websites-visited/#comment-391977 Onno Fri, 03 Jul 2009 14:20:58 +0000 http://thenextweb.com/?p=20598#comment-391977 http://www.troma.com/ It was on a friends computer, I was really interested in this internet thing. Still am by the way ;-) http://www.troma.com/

It was on a friends computer, I was really interested in this internet thing. Still am by the way ;-)

]]> By: Kjeld http://thenextweb.com/2009/07/03/remembering-websites-visited/#comment-391976 Kjeld Fri, 03 Jul 2009 14:15:30 +0000 http://thenextweb.com/?p=20598#comment-391976 Probbably www.veronica.nl at a terminal from the Rabobank data centre in Zeist in the Netherlands Probbably http://www.veronica.nl at a terminal from the Rabobank data centre in Zeist in the Netherlands

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