When you logged on the internet for the first time, what was the first website that you visited?

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Hello, Erich Bublitz.
On 11/11/2021 2.13 you wrote:

When you logged on the internet for the first time, what was the first website
that you visited?

It was not a website. There was internet before the www thingy. ;-)

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Hello, Erich Bublitz.
On 11/11/2021 2.13 you wrote:

It was not a website. There was internet before the www thingy. ;-)

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Well the first website I went to was www.download.com

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*** Quoting Erich Bublitz from a message to Tommi Koivula ***

Well the first website I went to was www.download.com

I'm not 100% sure on the very first website I went to, but one of the first was www.nintendo.com. Back then they had a "Nintendo Chat" thing right on their front page.

It wasn't anything fancy, it just added to a running text file displayed
on the page. But I remember everyone was asking where everyone else was from and most of the people were from North America, but there were a few from Europe and Australia on there too. That was one of the first times I felt
the excitement of the internet & how it could connect us all.


Jay

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Hello Jay Harris!

** On Saturday 13.11.21 - 09:52, Jay Harris wrote to Erich Bublitz:

first was www.nintendo.com. Back then they had a
"Nintendo Chat" thing right on their front page.

It wasn't anything fancy, it just added to a running text
file displayed on the page. But I remember everyone was
asking where everyone else was from and most of the people
were from North America, but there were a few from Europe
and Australia on there too. That was one of the first
times I felt the excitement of the internet & how it could
connect us all.

For me.. the first sense that anything connected people, was
echomail. Back then, even accessing the internet required
dialup. So, connecting to a BBS .vs. an ISP to browse or
gopher made no difference. The "internet" itself wasn't
amazing to me.

Compuserve was another a-ha place for me; getting connected
with people who had info to share or just enjoyed a good
conversation.
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Hello Jay Harris!

** On Saturday 13.11.21 - 09:52, Jay Harris wrote to Erich Bublitz:

For me.. the first sense that anything connected people, was
echomail. Back then, even accessing the internet required
dialup. So, connecting to a BBS .vs. an ISP to browse or
gopher made no difference. The "internet" itself wasn't
amazing to me.

Compuserve was another a-ha place for me; getting connected
with people who had info to share or just enjoyed a good
conversation.
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Compuserve was a great place too. I hung out there sometimes.

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