# 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:** 11\
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**Author:** ![Pelleas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/e8c25b/32.png) [@Pelleas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pelleas)\
**Post date:** [March 11, 2003, 12:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-homepage/159296/41 "2003-03-11T00:35:57Z")

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My browser opens to [www.my.yahoo.com](http://www.my.yahoo.com). It shows the top world, national, local and financial news as well as weather, sports and a number of other features.

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**Author:** ![gotpasswords](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c57346/32.png) [@gotpasswords](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gotpasswords)\
**Post date:** [March 11, 2003, 12:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-homepage/159296/42 "2003-03-11T00:44:09Z")

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At home, my ISP’s MOTD page. Boring at times, but often useful for explaining why the email’s slow.

At work, it’s the main corporate portal, but the LAN folks keep trying to change it to another internal portal site unique to my division that I’m “supposed” to want, even though it’s frequently offline.

Either way, I’m more often launching the browser with a desktop item, rather than starting at a homepage then finding a favorite.

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**Author:** ![Sylkyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/da6949/32.png) [@Sylkyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sylkyn)\
**Post date:** [March 11, 2003, 1:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-homepage/159296/43 "2003-03-11T01:04:45Z")

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For about five years, my home page was my page at [www.excite.com](http://www.excite.com), but then my husband found a new site that doesn’t have popups or banner ads, and we both switched to that one. It can be customized, as well. [www.myway.com](http://www.myway.com).

Reminds me a lot of the excite page, but the no popups thing is cool, and I like their game links. I play only 2 games and they’re both linked to there.

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**Author:** ![Bob55](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e9c0ed/32.png) [@Bob55](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bob55)\
**Post date:** [March 11, 2003, 2:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-homepage/159296/44 "2003-03-11T02:13:03Z")

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

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**Author:** ![Legomancer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/779978/32.png) [@Legomancer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Legomancer)\
**Post date:** [March 12, 2003, 11:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-homepage/159296/45 "2003-03-12T23:14:11Z")

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Davebear -

I started with about:blank when I was on dialup. That way I wasn’t trying to load some page when all I wanted to do was go somewhere else.

Now that I have Cable, Google’s my homepage, but another reason for about:blank is that it’s…well…blank. I’m not one of those people who wants a screenful of information rocketed at my eyes whenever I look at the screen. I don’t need to know the weather, sports scores, stock market, news headlines, dew point, hat sales, and so forth when I sit down at the machine. A blank homepage is like the silence after the conductor taps his baton. It’s right there ready for you to go where you want.

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**Author:** ![Doomtrain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/0ea827/32.png) [@Doomtrain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doomtrain)\
**Post date:** [March 12, 2003, 11:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-homepage/159296/46 "2003-03-12T23:46:31Z")

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I use Yahoo. I don’t even use my own webpage. As sad as that is.

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**Author:** ![DMark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@DMark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DMark)\
**Post date:** [March 13, 2003, 12:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-homepage/159296/47 "2003-03-13T00:31:13Z")

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Another Google here - both at home and at work.

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**Author:** ![kasuo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/8c91f0/32.png) [@kasuo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kasuo)\
**Post date:** [March 13, 2003, 12:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-homepage/159296/48 "2003-03-13T00:36:08Z")

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**about:blank** works for me.

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**Author:** ![severin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/eb8c5e/32.png) [@severin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/severin)\
**Post date:** [March 13, 2003, 9:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-homepage/159296/49 "2003-03-13T09:17:26Z")

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about:hello%20world 😉

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**Author:** ![Morgainelf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/71e660/32.png) [@Morgainelf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgainelf)\
**Post date:** [March 13, 2003, 2:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-homepage/159296/50 "2003-03-13T14:20:10Z")

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Mine is linked below.

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**Author:** ![TheFunkySpaceCowboy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a9a28c/32.png) [@TheFunkySpaceCowboy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheFunkySpaceCowboy)\
**Post date:** [March 13, 2003, 8:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-homepage/159296/51 "2003-03-13T20:44:31Z")

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Another about:blank start up page person here, though the “home” button takes me to [www.slashdot.org](http://www.slashdot.org) As for MY home page that’s [www.acerbic.org](http://www.acerbic.org) and is probably linked below, unless I was too lazy to put it in my account settings 🙂

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