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[ SECRET POST #3379 ]

⌈ Secret Post #3379 ⌋

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[FullMetal Alchemist]

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[Supernatural]

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[Once Upon a Time]

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[Happiness!]

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[Lord of the Rings trilogy]

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[Marble Hornets/TroyHasACamera]

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[Wicked Tuna, Dave Carraro]

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I've been trying to find the things I was obsessed with in 2001 and a fandomsecrets post from 2008 was the most recent google result. Obviously FS is where nostalgia lives... does Rantnotebook.com ring a bell with anyone?? She made pixel art dolls?

What's the first website you ever found on your own, as a teenager? Doesn't have to be from 2001! Rants about how 2001 was by no means "early internet" also encouraged!

Newgrounds and the other one

ETA: albino blacksheep!

Edited 2016-04-04 23:36 (UTC)

My first internet home was Porkey, one of the Harry Potter forum sites back in the day. It is mostly dead now. The forum is completely dead. I miss it sometimes.

Really, I just miss forums in general.

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I found tons of websites (Sailor Moon webrings were a big thing) but probably one of the Digimon message boards were the first places I actually hung out and met other people.

i cant remember the first site, but one of my earliest memories of going online was searching something and ended up reading peach girl fanfic.

for some reason i thought it was someone's original work and i was confused as to why they didn't explain the dynamics of everyone and just delve right into the drama. i've also never read peach girl, so it was all very confusing.

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Absolutely no idea. I know I was reading X-Files fic (off of Gossamer maybe?) in the 90s, but that definitely wasn't the first site I found. It probably wasn't even something fandom related.

Rotten Dot Com

It was suggested by friends.

I have weird friends.

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The first site I saw was some site for Full House back in... 1994, 1995, maybe?

But the first site I actively used was one for The Baby-Sitter's Club. I think it was called The Ultimate Baby-Sitter's Club website or something.

Did anyone else use this? Looking back it was in SERIOUS need of modding... man. But I loved it. I totally sockpuppeted, though.

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SA - here's a link to something that also explains it

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I'm old enough that websites weren't really a common thing when I started going online. The first one I saw was probably my sister's friend's homepage. After that, I dunno. Probably a fan page for some fandom I was into at the time.

Red Vs Blue. Somehow, someway I had like the first 1-2 seasons on my computer. I loves watching them over and over.

a maths game site lol....

Back then I would go on Pokemon chat rooms - they'd be the ones hosted by... was it Homestead or something like that? I practically lived in those chat rooms.

Oh and on that note, websites dedicated to fandoms. I used to peruse loads of Pokemon websites and even had my own.

IDK, whatever AOL was

Probably pairing webrings of some kind, oh and ff.net as well.

There are two websites I remember from my early days on the internet (~1996), and I've looked for any trace of them to no avail but would love to find them again. One was a transcription of a young man's diary he kept when he was erroneously sent to a mental hospital while in high school in the 1980s for being suicidal (IIRC, he made an innocuous comment about thinking about death in class, someone reported him to the guidance counselor, and then he was basically carted away). It was a really interesting read.

The other was this website that was basically an MS Paint picture book about a sock monkey, but it was many pictures of the same sock monkey sitting in a chair in the same pose, with weird one-sentence captions. The one that has stuck in my mind for 20 years is, "Sock Monkey never did nobody no harm." Or something like that. Wanna find that sock monkey.

One website I do remember lurking at in 2001 was www.cattygoths.com. It was a bitchy "review" site of self-proclaimed Goths' personal websites, run by a bunch of other Goths who thought they were so much cooler than those other losers. The lack of self-awareness was really funny to me. They also introduced me to the internet-infamous "middle-aged man who lives as Peter Pan" and "German lady who is in love with the Berlin Wall." Good times.

The Fox Kids website, I think.

I first got online in the late 90s. I was in my early twenties then, a college student, and I don't remember using specific sites like we do now. Websites weren't really interactive, or at least I didn't know about the ones that were! I remember wasting a lot of time on AIM and Yahoo chat. Probably the first *big* website I used was Amazon.com.

fanpages rings, FFN.

I was younger than a teenager, but the first site I found on my own was a HUGE Rugrats fansite. I don't remember the name, or if it even had one, but before then all I'd had was AOL, which was where Nickelodeon's official "sites" for all its shows were, and they were pretty small and bad.

This site I found was way better and I thought it was official too, because I didn't know fansites were a thing. In fact, when I finally found the disclaimer that the owner was not affiliated with Rugrats or Nickelodeon, I felt horrible and dirty because I thought there was no way that could be legal, and after I'd just spent so much time browsing it I was worried I'd been breaking the law too. I nervously told my dad what I'd done and he explained that it was fine. So that's how I found my first website and also learned how the internet worked.

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cheezey's thundercats zone; then the treasures of thundera list c. 1997

man those were the days, i miss that fandom (not its trolls - but heck even trolls were fun way back).

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Harry Potter sites: Portkey, The Leaky Cauldron, and Sugar Quill, were some of the first sites I visited with regularity. After that there was fanfiction.net and LJ.

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I first got on line in the fall of 1996 (I was in my mid 20s, world wide web wasn't available when I was a teen)--I remember Yahoo having categories and finding a category that said slash fanfiction. I thought it was horror fic having been reading Stephen King since I was 13. I was pleasantly surprised.

The site I used the most was KS Nicholas' Slash Fanfiction on the Net--it was a list of links to slash archives and mailing lists, etc. This was in the late 90s before search engines found everything for you. I loved that site.

Transformers World's Worst.

Fanfiction.Net before it went weird...er than it is now.

Geocities.

My first "home" was teh social discussion board for a webcomic, but it went downhill when the comic went pay-per-view, and then the board changed format. That was also around the time I got deep into Baldur's Gate so I drifted away.

I also miss the old format of the Attic aka Gamejag, the Baldur's Gate forum I got into. It changed from a threaded board with a format similar to comment strings here, to a different message board format, but like Sevilia before it, by the time it did that, I was distracted elsewhere.