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What was your first oft-visited World-Wide Web site?

Back in the dial up days is was probably yahoo.com. I stayed in their chat rooms and aol chat rooms.
 
mobilehaathi said:
Okay, I'll be honest. That disturbs me.
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Eh. Nothing wrong with looking at pictures of dead people. Go to Australia and they show pictures like that in the news.

One of my main interests in World War 2 history (particularly on the German side). Spend any amount of time looking into that and you'll come across pictures of (lots of) dead people. It is just a fact of life.
 
Cromulent said:
Eh. Nothing wrong with looking at pictures of dead people. Go to Australia and they show pictures like that in the news.

One of my main interests in World War 2 history (particularly on the German side). Spend any amount of time looking into that and you'll come across pictures of (lots of) dead people. It is just a fact of life.
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It just sounded like, at a young age, you started to fetishize death. And when I think of pictures of dead people on the Internet, I think of some very gruesome images. Hence my concern.
 
mobilehaathi said:
It just sounded like, at a young age, you started to fetishize death. And when I think of pictures of dead people on the Internet, I think of some very gruesome images. Hence my concern.
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Sure some of them were very gruesome images. The internet back then had some much nastier stuff on it than now (and no parental control software that stopped you from accessing it). Most of what used to be on the internet freely available to all is now hidden on things like Tor out of sight and out of mind for most users.

I remember there was a magazine in the UK called Bizarre which I also read when I was young. That had some strange stuff in it as well. People didn't seem to care about things as much as they do now.

Then again I've always liked gruesome stuff. I'm a big horror fan (even though most of them are boring). Does that make me a sick person? I've no idea.
 
Cromulent said:
Sure some of them were very gruesome images. The internet back then had some much nastier stuff on it than now (and no parental control software that stopped you from accessing it). Most of what used to be on the internet freely available to all is now hidden on things like Tor out of sight and out of mind for most users.

I remember there was a magazine in the UK called Bizarre which I also read when I was young. That had some strange stuff in it as well. People didn't seem to care about things as much as they do now.

Then again I've always liked gruesome stuff. I'm a big horror fan (even though most of them are boring). Does that make me a sick person? I've no idea.
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I have no idea either. *shrug*
 
We got the Internet at home in 1996 and the earliest site that I can remember going to multiple times was the "Happy Puppy Games Onramp", but I'm sure that there were others (not dead people though!)
 
it would have been AOL simply because in the days of dial-up, it was how I got online..........boot up their software, sign-in, go get a snack from the kitchen while the modem chirped away and maybe the process was complete when I returned.
 
I was a big fan of MxPx growing up, so once I finally had the internet, I just typed "mxpx" into the browser. Pre-google integration, it just added a default .com to it and took me there. This was probably 1995. They had a chatroom that I remember using as my first communication with people online (other than using a juno email address a few months prior when at the library, to get on punk rock mailing lists)
 
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