a brand-new form of public humiliation

[devi]

Late last night in the pub I was waxing nostalgic to miss_newham about talkers and BBSs and all things telnet-based, and remembering a world where that was practically all there was to the internet. When I got to college in 1994 there was one single computer connected to the Web in the whole university. There were always massive queues at it, and when you finally got to use it, you'd sit there for half an hour waiting for a little picture of an envelope to download...

Anyway, in my half-drunk and achy state I blurted out that the first thing I ever looked up on the web was (oh god) Robert Jordan. Yes, the Wheel of Time fantasy author. (Oh god the shame.) And I was wondering if other people had similar embarrassments in their past, like that first record you bought that you never want people to find out about.

What was the first thing you (consciously, deliberately) searched for on the web? Set homepages that just popped up, like your college homepage, don't count. Go on, I've owned up, now it's your turn.

Comments

[oneofthose.livejournal.com]

My first ever contact with the net was in 1996. dickon_edwards took me to an internet cafe and showed me Diana Ross's website. We emailed it saying we'd written a song for her to sing. She never replied.

[atommickbrane.livejournal.com]

Please may I use "he took me to an internet cafe and showed me Diana Ross's website" as one of the lyrics in my next song? Despite from the fact I can't figure out a way to make it scan I'm sure Gurls Aloud would take it.