Pretty sure it was in middle school, so we are talking like 98-99. It was in the computer lab. Other kids were playing gerbils on the mac while I was surfing I think a world factbook site, I remember clicking on Japan because I was obsessed with catching DBZ on the morning cartoon blocks before toonami was a thing. Seeing girls in kimonos and the usual fluff about ancient honorable Nippon and Tokyo. What about you?
I don’t remember tbh, it was probably in a computer lab, but I do remember setting up my first email address as a pekklemail address (the duck from Sanrio)
and my brother set up a badtzmail address (penguin from sanrio 
First website I visited was altavista.digital.com. It was a search engine that didn’t even have its own site. My first search was for Metallica, my favorite band at the time.
Pretty sure mine was this too. But not entirely sure anymore.
whitehouse . com
Probably about the same, '97-'98. We’d gotten a PC in maybe '92 or '93, a 486SX-33 with a whopping 4MB of RAM. My primary school was still stuck on BBC micros, and our C64 had long been given away, so my parents shelled out for a new machine for me for high school and of course I instantly started trading games with all the other nerds, spending my allowance on gaming magazines, playing coverdisk demos, buying shareware disks from the local newsagent. We started hearing about this “internet” thing in about '96, so my father eventually took me to this “intro to the internet” seminar, and at the end there was a single PC hooked up via dialup that we could fool around on. When it was my turn I went to the only website I could remember off the top of my head, the local gaming magazine, Hyper.
Preserved on archive.org, and magazine scans here.
Oh nice. My gaming magazine at that time was gamefan
I don’t remember the first website, but I do remember my grandpa sitting at his desk showing me usenet. My grandpa was really cool and loved technology, he had a prodigy connection at home as far back as the 80s. I remember he had one of those cradles that you’d put a phone headset into and it would play dial tones, and that’s how you’d connect to the internet. He would even work from home using it sometimes, like sending emails and stuff. Grandpa was really cool, he had a Sputnik watchers badge too and apparently listened to it beeping as it passed overhead on his radio. He was just so different than most other older folks, he was very online and capable at using computers. He knew about software and kept up to date on innovations. Just a cool guy. Also he bowled 299 twice in his life, one of those times after he had part of his heart removed. He ruled.
I don’t even remember what he showed me on usenet. I was too young to read very well, but I was really impressed by it. It was those old monochrome CRT screens with the white text on black backgrounds. Yeah, he had Oregon Trail too lol.
If I had to guess the first actual website I used, it was probably during school? Probably the netscape homepage. Macs were ubiquitous in schools back then, or at least my school had them.
I think my first might have been nickelodeon or cartoon network dot com, back when they had flash games. Or it might have been joe cartoon?
AOL chatroom LesBiGay (a word I did not understand at 7).
Got our first computer in I think '96? At first my mom put age restrictions on my browsing but I figured out her password and logged on and changed my access rights. I think the first three websites I tried (after I figured out there was more to the internet than just AOL) was either mtv.com, disney, or nickelodeon’s website. I used to spend a lot of time playing games on there, back when sites like that had games on them.
Probably one of those Flash games sites that were popular in the mid-late 2000s. I seem to be a bit younger than other people in this thread.
I went to a technical high school where you got to learn a trade and academics on alternating weeks. I went because one of the trade shops was computer programming/repair.
They gave us access to a dialup Internet server at University of Massachusetts, but it wasn’t TCP/IP, it just dropped you into a purely text based Linux terminal. My first web access was using Lynx through that, but I can’t remember what the first page I would have used. Probably Archie, since the only thing it was useful for(to me at least) at that point was finding files to download via gopher.
The first one was probably the official site (EA its in the shame) for extra content circa 1999? after I saw a showcase for it but that might as well be a dream from back then because I remember wanting it bad or maybe it was just a mod site.
Yahoo.com probably; whatever the Netscape homepage was.
Encarta?
Probably something that linked from the AOL home page. I know I spent a lot of time on Newgrounds.com
mine was airplane.com
