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.

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[nisaba.livejournal.com]

I'm such a boring sod. My first use of the internet in 1994 was to ytalk and email other people at the uni (we actually had heaps of terminals - 4-5 computer rooms from memory on the campus itself, and a room full of windows machines at our accomodation. That'll happen when your university helps develop the tcp-ip protocol, not that I knew that at the time). My second use was to log onto a MUD, and my third use was to use Lynx to look up some stuff for my psychology degree.