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10-20-2009, 08:39 PM #1Web Hosting Master
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What was your first "homepage" and "email" provider?
What was your first home page, that you set yourself, that you felt comfortable with when you first started using the web?
Mine was snap.com back in 98..
What was your first email provider?
Mine was mail.com back in 98. ( I think, could have been email.com but i really think it was mail.com)
Well?
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10-20-2009, 08:44 PM #2Retired Moderator
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Mine was Tripod I think? Or Geocities, one of them. For email, it is my university email account because at that time, no Internet in my country yet except to the academic.
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10-20-2009, 08:56 PM #3A#* Duke Of New York
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About '97-98, hosted at first by AOL members pages. It was a visual basic site.
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10-20-2009, 09:04 PM #4DigitalPunchCardMaker
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It was XOOM.COM.
http://web.archive.org/web/199902231...xoom.com/home/
Brings back memories
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10-20-2009, 09:06 PM #5Web Hosting Master
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10-20-2009, 09:35 PM #6Retired Moderator
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First homepage was through Microsoft Communities, in 1999 - that's also where I first learned to code, by "breaking" my own home page by editing in code mode.
My first email address came in 1986, through Cleveland FreeNet.Studio1337___̴ı̴̴̡̡̡ ̡͌l̡̡̡ ̡͌l̡*̡̡ ̴̡ı̴̴̡ ̡̡͡|̲̲̲͡͡͡ ̲▫̲͡ ̲̲̲͡͡π̲̲͡͡ ̲̲͡▫̲̲͡͡ ̲|̡̡̡ ̡ ̴̡ı̴̡̡ ̡͌l̡̡̡̡.__Web Design
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10-20-2009, 10:20 PM #7is a threadkiller
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My first homepage was back in 99 on homestead.
My first email provider was hotmail.
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10-20-2009, 10:27 PM #8Disabled
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Angelfire for web pages and Yahoo for Email.
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10-20-2009, 10:50 PM #9Grand Nagus
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I didn't use a sissy homepage like Yahoo, AOL, GeoCities, Tripod, etc.
Mine was dialup ISP/~usernameWhat's your budget?
Seriously, what's your budget?
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10-20-2009, 10:53 PM #10Web Hosting Master
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I believe geocities in about 1996 or so. Maybe even 1995. Back in the day of BLINKING text email was from local dialup db@c4.net
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10-20-2009, 11:06 PM #11Web Hosting Master
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10-20-2009, 11:26 PM #12Web Hosting Master
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My first email provider was my college back in the early 90's.
The first homepage that I used in my browser I think was either Netscape or Yahoo, but then soon switched to others over time: Webcrawler, Lycos, Excite, Altavista & Infoseek. Then eventually I made my own homepage, just some HTML files on my computer, with links to all the sites that I use most often....john2k...
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10-20-2009, 11:43 PM #13Grand Nagus
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Damn straight!
I got my first dial up account summer 1994 from a local ISP. $18 for 150 hours a month for 2,400 baud of internet goodness. Of course everything was command line, IRC, gopher and PINE e-mail. Those were the days! I didn't even have a color monitor. Running a 286 with a dinky 14" black with orange text. Now I have 9 desktop computers retired and in active service, 3 laptops and 2x24" LCDs. Technology!
Then came Mosaic followed by Netscape followed by IE followed by the best browser ever!
Opera!What's your budget?
Seriously, what's your budget?
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10-21-2009, 02:34 AM #14WHT Addict
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10-21-2009, 05:49 AM #15New Member
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10-21-2009, 06:13 AM #16New Member
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Mine was Yahoo. Still very basic then. Up to now I still use it. I got comfortable with it over time.
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10-21-2009, 06:58 AM #17WHT Addict
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FreeWebs for my first homepage, and Hotmail for my email
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10-21-2009, 07:08 AM #18Banner Designer
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BT Internet here, back in the day.
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10-21-2009, 10:49 AM #19Web Hosting Master
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Interesting.. lets keep them coming.. quite interesting to see what others have used and how long some may have been using the internet
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10-21-2009, 12:37 PM #20WHT Addict
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I remember AOL days. My mom yelling at me to get off the computer because it charged by the hour. First email address was [somethingIthoughtWasCreative] at aol dot com
I believe the default setting was the Best Buy homepage which I do not remember changing. I was really jealous of my first friend to get a cable connection. It seemed so fast.Kyle Haynes - Limestone Networks - Director of Sales & Marketing
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10-21-2009, 01:14 PM #21Death is Sex
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1. WWF.com (it was WWF not WWE those days) or FTV.fr possibly both.
2. Netaddress.com mail provider, that was yourname@usa.net
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10-21-2009, 02:07 PM #22Web Hosting Master
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My first HTML page went up on Angelfire in the mid 90s. I was going to use Geocities but back then you had to manually find a free "address" and I really had no patience for it. I also had FTP dumps at Tripod and XOOM set up, multiple accounts, for distributing files. I think my first e-mail was a free POP3 provider called macfreak.com where it was hosted on a Mac with a dialup modem.
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10-21-2009, 04:19 PM #23WHT Addict
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Compuserve - late 70s, purchased from Radio Shack when it was first available. Accessed with M100 and Model 3. Toward the end before it was inhaled by AOL, I used an excellent script program called Tapcis to minimize online time.
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10-21-2009, 05:59 PM #24Web Hosting Master
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i cant remember if it was angelfire or tripod now, i'm thinking i went from angelfire to tripod because it was better but my memory fails me often and my first email address was aol.com , only because that was the first internet provider where i lived at the time "out in the country" that had a dial up number
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10-21-2009, 06:10 PM #25Web Hosting Master
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My first email address was with prodigy.com
My first webpage was with compuserve.com
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