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What was the first website you rememer using

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  • tronator
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    edited 26 December 2015 at 3:37PM
    hbk4894 wrote: »
    got to be the old WWF website now (WWE)

    Please, don't feed the troll :eek:

    http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/search.php?searchid=165371792

    https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=hbk4894
  • System
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    The old Napster network and msn chat rooms (grapevine 30s).
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  • duchy
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    Before the internet - PanAm had a messaging noticeboard for travel agents to chit chat on using Prestel probably around 1985/86 .
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  • ThemeOne
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    I remember webcrawler and altavista for searching.
  • pogofish
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    Another on NSCA Mosaic here - And the homepage was whoever I downloaded it from (on a rip-snorting 2400-baud modem!). Probably CIX or Compuserve BBS.
  • pappa_golf
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    hbk4894 wrote: »
    got to be the old WWF website now (WWE)




    is this a "technical" question?
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  • tronator wrote: »

    :T
    Been saying this for ages - myself AND a few others on here.

    Trouble is, this troll gets fed far too much.
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    ThemeOne wrote: »
    I remember webcrawler and altavista for searching.

    Lycos for free text messages.
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  • jackieb
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    I can't rightly remember but I know one of the first things I did when we got our first PC in 1998 - we didn't have a webcam and there was this site that said it would take a photo of you, so I spent 20 minutes tidying the room behind me. I brushed my hair. Pinched my cheeks. Sat and smiled at the screen, hit send, and waited for the photo to load. It took a while but the dial-up was pretty slow anyway. It slowly started to appear and I waited nervously to see my picture. Then I saw it. It was a monkey!

    My OH still won't let me live that one down. :o:rotfl:
  • zagubov
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    Not really the proper internet but we had a BBC computer with a modem that used a TV to show lists of information; it was called Prestel. Must have been the 1980s, possibly early 80s.

    in '82 I had to link to a supercomputer in Rome to research sources for my planned postgraduate project. Our university library had to wait till a prearranged time when we could access it via satellite. I'd put in my search terms then there was a screeching while the printer printed out pages of sources in an endless sheet.

    An incredible palaver it was.
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