# Websites you associate with the early internet **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [January 21, 2015, 5:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/websites-you-associate-with-the-early-internet/710459 "2015-01-21T05:02:28Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Pai325](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c68b51/32.png) [@Pai325](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pai325)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2015, 4:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/websites-you-associate-with-the-early-internet/710459/41 "2015-01-21T16:47:52Z")
I used to play a game called Hunt the Wumpus. ---
**Author:** ![eschereal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschereal/32/18939_2.png) [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2015, 4:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/websites-you-associate-with-the-early-internet/710459/42 "2015-01-21T16:54:14Z")
When was the first time you saw [the Last Page](http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/the-last-page-of-the-internet)? ---
**Author:** ![dzeiger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/46a35a/32.png) [@dzeiger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dzeiger)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2015, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/websites-you-associate-with-the-early-internet/710459/43 "2015-01-21T17:06:56Z")
The Dysfunctional Family Circus ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2015, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/websites-you-associate-with-the-early-internet/710459/44 "2015-01-21T17:26:32Z")
> [@Critical1](#): > > [http://www.zombo.com/](http://www.zombo.com/) > currently down due to bandwidth. Which is in and of itself funny as hell. I came to mention Zombo. I remember sending a friend to [zombo.com](http://zombo.com), and he totally didn’t get it. ---
**Author:** ![mack](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b19c9b/32.png) [@mack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mack)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2015, 6:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/websites-you-associate-with-the-early-internet/710459/45 "2015-01-21T18:08:02Z")
The Bettmann Archive. My picture searches always took me there. Watch the pictures load, line by line! I remember often logging into CERN as a hub of sorts prior to Mosaic and Netscape. ---
**Author:** ![Sciency](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9d8465/32.png) [@Sciency](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sciency)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2015, 6:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/websites-you-associate-with-the-early-internet/710459/46 "2015-01-21T18:16:11Z")
I just remember the times when you could go to a search engine and type whatever + download and find whatever you were looking for… ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2015, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/websites-you-associate-with-the-early-internet/710459/47 "2015-01-21T18:17:05Z")
Aww, **robert\_columbia** , I was going to mention the Big Red Button that Doesn’t Do Anything! Among actual useful pages, there’s [xxx.lanl.gov](http://xxx.lanl.gov) , which was not, despite the URL, a porn site (I think they chose “xxx” because it’s the next letter after “www”). It still exists, in much the same form (except a lot bigger), but they changed the name to [arxiv.org](http://arxiv.org) . And less useful, Yahoo used to have a category called “X of the day”, for all of the picture of the day, joke of the day, Bible verse of the day, etc. websites. So some joker created a site that was literally “X of the day”, with a new picture every day of the letter X on a sign or something. ---
**Author:** ![ZipperJJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zipperjj/32/211_2.png) [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2015, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/websites-you-associate-with-the-early-internet/710459/48 "2015-01-21T18:19:58Z")
The Kids in the Hall fan site [http://kithfan.org/](http://kithfan.org/) has been around forever (ok maybe only since 1998). Glad to see she is still around - musta taken forever to write all those transcripts! The Monty Python fan site [pythonline.com](http://pythonline.com) was very old school but they had a lot of nice drawings. It was hard to navigate! [The Dead Milkmen’s web site](http://www.deadmilkmen.com/) was one of the very first sites I went to on the www and it was pretty much the same layout until a couple years ago when they “tidied up” and then they went a totally different direction, making the site much more like their newsletters from the 80s. Now they just kind of want us to interact via social media. ---
**Author:** ![AHunter3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ahunter3/32/368_2.png) [@AHunter3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AHunter3)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2015, 6:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/websites-you-associate-with-the-early-internet/710459/49 "2015-01-21T18:27:22Z")
Meh. My own damn web site still reeks of early internet. Yeah, you remember the notion of having one’s “own web site”, right? PageMill, baby! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2015, 6:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/websites-you-associate-with-the-early-internet/710459/50 "2015-01-21T18:27:26Z")
> [@eschereal](#): > > When was the first time you saw [the Last Page](http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/the-last-page-of-the-internet)? You beat me to it! ---
**Author:** ![Recusant](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/838e76/32.png) [@Recusant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Recusant)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2015, 6:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/websites-you-associate-with-the-early-internet/710459/51 "2015-01-21T18:49:21Z")
I hate to have to keep saying this, but: the internet began in the sixties; the web didn’t get started until 1991. Any websites created in the time of ‘the early internet’ were being done by time travelers. That said, if we’re sticking to the web, and not, say, Usenet, I’ll toss in Wave to the Cats. ---
**Author:** ![johnspartan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a183cd/32.png) [@johnspartan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/johnspartan)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2015, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/websites-you-associate-with-the-early-internet/710459/52 "2015-01-21T18:52:36Z")
Blex’s Page of Good MP3s ---
**Author:** ![Quimby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/22d042/32.png) [@Quimby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quimby)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2015, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/websites-you-associate-with-the-early-internet/710459/53 "2015-01-21T20:39:25Z")
> [@Amateur\_Barbarian](#): > > IMDb has been around since the dawn, I think, and for many years I used it as the poster child for what the internet could be all about and aspire to. I remember when the regular at rec.arts.movies first created it. When someone would ask a question like “Who starred in such and such?” he would basically advertise the site to let them know it was there. ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2015, 11:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/websites-you-associate-with-the-early-internet/710459/54 "2015-01-21T23:02:07Z")
> [@Recusant](#): > > I hate to have to keep saying this Then don’t. We all know the difference between the web and the other parts of the internet. And if your early memories are logging into Arpanet then fine, say that. But no need to be a pedantic nerd about it. Most people’s first encounter with the Internet was the World Wide Web, or AOL’s version of it, so it’s not like anybody’s actually wrong here. ---
**Author:** ![Clothahump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/51bf81/32.png) [@Clothahump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Clothahump)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2015, 11:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/websites-you-associate-with-the-early-internet/710459/55 "2015-01-21T23:11:07Z")
> [@GuanoLad](#): > > [BOFH](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bastard_Operator_From_Hell). A fellow BOFH fan! In case you haven’t seen it, here are the [BOFH archives](http://bofh.ntk.net/BOFH/). Enjoy! ---
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2015, 1:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/websites-you-associate-with-the-early-internet/710459/56 "2015-01-22T01:11:41Z")
Wow–I haven’t thought about some of these in years. I remember Mirsky’s Worst of the Web also, and humour sites the Brunching Shuttlecocks and The Corporation. Alta Vista and Geocities, too. ---
**Author:** ![kopek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kopek/32/337_2.png) [@kopek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kopek)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2015, 1:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/websites-you-associate-with-the-early-internet/710459/57 "2015-01-22T01:27:11Z")
Then name escapes me now but long before webcams were common some girl had her apartment rigged and her whole life basically played out on the web. And this was back in the day when everyone was on dial-up. No porn star or anything and no fee that I recall when it started. Just a regular run of the mill exhibitionist really stretching the new technology. Jenna? Something like that? ---
**Author:** ![even\_sven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/dfb087/32.png) [@even\_sven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/even_sven)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2015, 1:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/websites-you-associate-with-the-early-internet/710459/58 "2015-01-22T01:32:15Z")
There used to be an early website where you could “make” virtual pizzas, choosing your toppings. At the time, it seemed amazing to contemplate that maybe one day you would be able to actually order a real pizza that way. ---
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2015, 2:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/websites-you-associate-with-the-early-internet/710459/59 "2015-01-22T02:55:56Z")
> [@kopek](#): > > Then name escapes me now but long before webcams were common some girl had her apartment rigged and her whole life basically played out on the web. And this was back in the day when everyone was on dial-up. No porn star or anything and no fee that I recall when it started. Just a regular run of the mill exhibitionist really stretching the new technology. Jenna? Something like that? JenniCam! ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2015, 3:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/websites-you-associate-with-the-early-internet/710459/60 "2015-01-22T03:21:06Z")
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