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this popped up on my timeline https://twitter.com/Obelis12/status/1643317395354779648 and i immediately remembered mine it was for simcity 2000 hints and cheats on my neighbors prodigy setup do you remember your first internet search ?
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i think it was probably "doom cheats" using either excite or yahoo but its possible i might just remember that specifically because i printed the cheats. i also had a tamagotchi chart but i don't think that was first
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Apr 6, 2023 03:41
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Apr 6, 2023 03:44
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idk i don't know if i remembered my first one specifically either. probably not? search didn't really seem like it was a big deal at the time and it kinda wasn't really anyway for another 15 years after that
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Apr 6, 2023 03:47
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it might have been to a Pokémon fan site at my dads office before we got internet at home
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The first thing I ever typed in a browser bar was farts.com. http://web.archive.org/web/19981212024901/http://www.farts.com/ Oh hell yeah. I need to find that story about the camping trip and the partially rehydrated tuna noodle cassarole and the farts trapped in the sleeping bag that had me in loving tears back in the day. The stories section isn't working. Boo. Bluemillion fucked around with this message at 04:27 on Apr 6, 2023 |
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Apr 6, 2023 04:20
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I can't remember the specifics but I'm 99.99% sure it was about the RTS Dark Reign.
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Apr 6, 2023 04:29
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i'm not sure what my first search was, but assuming it was a success then the second was probably "boobs"
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Apr 6, 2023 04:35
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probably when I went to the library and looked up pictures of tie fighters and printed them out
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Apr 6, 2023 04:40
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claire danes’ nudes I was convinced that if I just searched long enough I’d find them
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Apr 6, 2023 06:34
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First time I used the web wasn't at home and someone used tamagotchi as example to try so that's what I did
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Apr 6, 2023 08:25
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pretty sure it was warhammer searches or cheat codes
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Apr 6, 2023 09:41
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I used to download guitar tabs and get so excited about the great songs i would be able to play until of course i got home and tried them and rhey sucked lol
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Apr 6, 2023 10:03
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it was probably something techie and boring like "usenet faqs" or "html spec" or something equally lame
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Apr 6, 2023 12:07
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Apr 6, 2023 12:11
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but whatever it was it was probably in altavista, which was also my password for everything for many years as a babby computer user
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Apr 6, 2023 12:12
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probably something for school op a million years ago, my mom announced that she had signed the two of us up for "how to search the internet" classes at the library cause she felt like she better "get on board" and it was all gopher protocol stuff for some reason. this was before google but after yahoo
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Apr 6, 2023 13:52
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definitely video game cheat codes
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Apr 6, 2023 13:57
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one of the very first thing I looked up was lyrics to the Ramones songs 'they both went down to Berlin, joined the ice capades' 
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Cat Face Joe posted:a million years ago, my mom announced that she had signed the two of us up for "how to search the internet" classes at the library cause she felt like she better "get on board" and it was all gopher protocol stuff for some reason. this was before google but after yahoo libraries were really weird about the internet in the early days. a huge proportion of librarians thought searching was going to be all about doing complex boolean searches in online databases, and then filtering based on author or article title. i suppose it's just an extension of how books and academic papers are catalogued, but in hindsight it's very odd to imagine navigating the web in that way, what with the constantly changing content. Sweevo fucked around with this message at 14:07 on Apr 6, 2023 |
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Apr 6, 2023 14:02
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I absolutely remember: it was "music jokes" and it led me to this page, miraculously still up, which I printed out and handed out to kids at school edit: "sound off in the comments!" is, even by the standards of web comics, a terrible final-panel punchline holy poo poo Dijkstracula fucked around with this message at 14:52 on Apr 6, 2023 |
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Apr 6, 2023 14:39
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no but the oldest thing i remember searching for was gundam related and the school's computer system blocked the search because it detected "gun"
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Apr 6, 2023 14:45
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"boobs" in webcrawler
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Dijkstracula posted:"sound off in the comments!" is, even by the standards of web comics, a terrible final-panel punchline holy poo poo you're describing the op
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Apr 6, 2023 15:04
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it was either boobs or how to crack doom.
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Apr 6, 2023 15:43
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probably an elementary school assignment, we would have been using yahooligans then
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Apr 6, 2023 17:02
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I vaguely remember some search engines having things where you could see a stream of what people were currently searching for and about half of it was searches for porn and divorce advice
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Apr 6, 2023 19:10
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Apr 6, 2023 19:14
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it was in my home town's public library on a shared computer you could reserve for an hour at a time, and the search itself was almost definitely about a) scary movies, b) professional wrestling, or c) the newspaper comic strip foxtrot.
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Apr 6, 2023 19:16
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triceratops
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Apr 6, 2023 19:58
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akadajet posted:I vaguely remember some search engines having things where you could see a stream of what people were currently searching for and about half of it was searches for porn and divorce advice oh yeah, I remember watching metacrawler's live results scroll by and I haven't been able to spell "brittney spears" correctly since
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Apr 6, 2023 20:12
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post hole digger posted:it was in my home town's public library on a shared computer you could reserve for an hour at a time, and the search itself was almost definitely about a) scary movies, b) professional wrestling, or c) the newspaper comic strip foxtrot. i was obsessed with foxtrot as a kid too. had tons of the books of collected strips i would read on flights.
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Apr 6, 2023 20:18
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there weren’t really any search engines at the time. I remember going to a page on the caltech website that had some sort of prototype search engine. I don’t remember what my first search was, but it was probably some anime thing.
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Apr 6, 2023 22:44
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KidDynamite posted:i was obsessed with foxtrot as a kid too. had tons of the books of collected strips i would read on flights. yea calvin and hobbes being in the papers was a bit before my time so that was my big go-to. its one of those things i've mostly forgotten about now but had a big impact on my development. i still have a bunch of those books somewhere.
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Apr 6, 2023 22:50
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gas
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Apr 6, 2023 22:51
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searching ARCHIE for information about which UART my modem should have or something like that
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Apr 6, 2023 23:40
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maybe it was WAIS idk
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Apr 6, 2023 23:42
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interestnig. because you had it at the time?
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hillary clinton feet pics, op
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but i'd like to think it was something about onions
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