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What was the first website you rememer using
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hbk4894
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got to be the old WWF website now (WWE)
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AOL homepage , and what a mess it was then!Save a Rachael
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It was whitehouse.gov in 1992 on a Solaris SparcStation using the NCSA Mosaic browser.
I was at a university open day and they were showing off their computer labs and suggested we visit it. The joke was that there was a !!!!!! site with a very similar name, so a lot of people in the room ended up with red faces!
I remember sending my first email soon after, using PINE. Ahh... those were the days when computers were simple! Ain't it pretty:
"PineScreenShot" by Source. Licensed under Fair use via Wikipedia - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:PineScreenShot.png#/media/File:PineScreenShot.png0 -
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Some sort of air travel thing. Sabre or something that uses Sabre. Before Travelocity.0
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First I remember using was a search engine called Metacrawler (returned results from multiple search engines). Def used others prior but that's the first I actually remember by name/function.0
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suzannevega.com0
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AltaVista was the search engine - before Google was invented. I remember going to a party and the host had the internet (impressive!) and showed off by downloading a picture of a naked girl (all very tasteful by today's standards) which took a tantalising hour, line by line, to come down the dial-up.0
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Not technically the web as it hadn't been invented but in around '88 had my first online experience with CIX. Been an official member for over 25 years now.0
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The Motley Fool. I'd bought a book and the website was recommended. This got me onto the web. Shortly after we went to America and I did loads of research using the internet. And made my first internet purchase - tickets to a Red Sox Game in Boston plus a tour around the stadium. This would have been around 1996 to 1997 (we visited May 1997).0
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