# What's your homepage?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-homepage/159296>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [March 5, 2003, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-homepage/159296 "2003-03-05T18:22:42Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 20\
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**Author:** ![raisinbread](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/8491ac/32.png) [@raisinbread](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/raisinbread)\
**Post date:** [March 5, 2003, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-homepage/159296/1 "2003-03-05T18:22:42Z")

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My homepage is [color=“blue”]Google.[/color]

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**Author:** ![Crusoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/49beb7/32.png) [@Crusoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crusoe)\
**Post date:** [March 5, 2003, 6:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-homepage/159296/2 "2003-03-05T18:29:00Z")

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My own homepage, linked below.

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**Author:** ![Trigonal\_Planar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/0ea827/32.png) [@Trigonal\_Planar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trigonal_Planar)\
**Post date:** [March 5, 2003, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-homepage/159296/3 "2003-03-05T19:44:54Z")

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Mine is also linked below. It comes highly recommended by 4 out of 5 me’s.

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**Author:** ![raz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/9f8e36/32.png) [@raz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/raz)\
**Post date:** [March 5, 2003, 9:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-homepage/159296/4 "2003-03-05T21:15:26Z")

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Mine is [boards.straightdope.com/sdmb](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb).

Yes, I hang out here far too often.

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**Author:** ![II\_Gyan\_II](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/bbe5ce/32.png) [@II\_Gyan\_II](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/II_Gyan_II)\
**Post date:** [March 5, 2003, 9:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-homepage/159296/5 "2003-03-05T21:23:57Z")

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Mine is a links page stored locally.

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**Author:** ![Harli](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c0e974/32.png) [@Harli](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harli)\
**Post date:** [March 5, 2003, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-homepage/159296/6 "2003-03-05T21:27:31Z")

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Mine is [Canada.com](http://Canada.com) set to the Hamilton news page.  
I don’t often watch local television, or read the newspaper, so it’s the best way for me to find out what’s happening in my city.

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**Author:** ![Khadro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/f07891/32.png) [@Khadro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khadro)\
**Post date:** [March 5, 2003, 11:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-homepage/159296/7 "2003-03-05T23:07:09Z")

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I start with

about:blank

😛

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**Author:** ![Cessandra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/59ef9b/32.png) [@Cessandra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cessandra)\
**Post date:** [March 5, 2003, 11:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-homepage/159296/8 "2003-03-05T23:23:39Z")

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Mine’s set to open whatever pages were open when I last closed the browser. If I closed right now, next time my start page would be this thread, the Today’s Active Threads page here on the SDMB, and a page of midwives in Texas.

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**Author:** ![DrLizardo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/5fc32e/32.png) [@DrLizardo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrLizardo)\
**Post date:** [March 6, 2003, 12:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-homepage/159296/9 "2003-03-06T00:54:56Z")

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[www.jewelry.com](http://www.jewelry.com)…

But I work in the jewelry industry, so it’s not as weird as it sounds.

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**Author:** ![Dragonblink](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9bd4f/32.png) [@Dragonblink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dragonblink)\
**Post date:** [March 6, 2003, 1:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-homepage/159296/10 "2003-03-06T01:06:24Z")

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Another person whose browser opens to a blank page.

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**Author:** ![mnemosyne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c4cdca/32.png) [@mnemosyne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mnemosyne)\
**Post date:** [March 6, 2003, 2:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-homepage/159296/11 "2003-03-06T02:28:50Z")

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I open to about:blank, but my “home” button is [www.straightdope.com](http://www.straightdope.com), and its usually the first place I go to. I use Mozilla and tabs, so I don’t like opening a new tab into a homepage, so I just deal with the blank at the beginning.

Now that I wrote that out…I wonder if tabs are controlled differently…? … … nope, doesn’t seem to, but I’ll keep looking! 🙂

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**Author:** ![Lobsang](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobsang/32/4067_2.png) [@Lobsang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobsang)\
**Post date:** [March 6, 2003, 2:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-homepage/159296/12 "2003-03-06T02:38:16Z")

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homepage? the one you have the browser set to or the one you made yourself?

The one I made myself is (click on ‘www’ below) the one I have my browser set on is [altavista.com](http://altavista.com)

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**Author:** ![Lobsang](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobsang/32/4067_2.png) [@Lobsang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobsang)\
**Post date:** [March 6, 2003, 2:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-homepage/159296/13 "2003-03-06T02:40:19Z")

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Annnnd I’ve just discovered my homepage isn’t working.

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**Author:** ![Cessandra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/59ef9b/32.png) [@Cessandra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cessandra)\
**Post date:** [March 6, 2003, 2:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-homepage/159296/14 "2003-03-06T02:41:18Z")

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It is now, for me anyway.

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**Author:** ![monica](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a183cd/32.png) [@monica](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/monica)\
**Post date:** [March 6, 2003, 2:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-homepage/159296/15 "2003-03-06T02:46:14Z")

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[www.straightdope.com](http://www.straightdope.com)

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**Author:** ![Lobsang](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobsang/32/4067_2.png) [@Lobsang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobsang)\
**Post date:** [March 6, 2003, 3:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-homepage/159296/16 "2003-03-06T03:11:03Z")

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[this one?](http://homepages.manx.net/lobley). or altavista?

It is my own website that is not working. (maybe [manx.net](http://manx.net) is having problems)

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**Author:** ![wei](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/90ced4/32.png) [@wei](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wei)\
**Post date:** [March 6, 2003, 3:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-homepage/159296/17 "2003-03-06T03:18:10Z")

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Blank.

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**Author:** ![Essured](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/278dde/32.png) [@Essured](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Essured)\
**Post date:** [March 6, 2003, 3:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-homepage/159296/18 "2003-03-06T03:36:13Z")

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Another about:blank here.

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**Author:** ![pezpunk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7ea924/32.png) [@pezpunk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pezpunk)\
**Post date:** [March 6, 2003, 4:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-homepage/159296/19 "2003-03-06T04:09:19Z")

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Mine is [http://slothlovechunk.iuma.com](http://slothlovechunk.iuma.com)

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**Author:** ![clayton\_e](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c57346/32.png) [@clayton\_e](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/clayton_e)\
**Post date:** [March 6, 2003, 4:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-homepage/159296/20 "2003-03-06T04:13:49Z")

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dubya dubya dubya dot straightdope dot com.

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