What's your homepage & how long have you been on-line?

[joebartels]

This may be kind of personal so maybe think twice before posting.

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I've been on-line for some time now (shut up hooli/rodney not consecutively ) (guess it's time to throw in Sredfield too after that invalid session post, man that was funny )

...anyhow been on-line back to the days of archie/veronica bla bla bla to the day when I got this "webspider?" thingy that you typed in "http://" before the address and pictures magically appeared.

HAZ is my homepage on my laptop, but on my desktop I keep asking myself why why why... my homepage has always been Excite! My brother got me started on that with the free e-mail and I think I'm their oldest member ...anyhow I keep asking why why why, because I never look at Excite. In fact it's a race to see how quick I can load HAZ before the Excite pop-up ad occurs.

My dad is a retired architect/phd pyschosomething and he's been on-line the past five years playing tetris and "watching" the stocks/commodities ( and no he doesn't even understand why ANYBODY would ever come to HAZ )
My sister goes on-line once in a blue moon to e-mail, then follows up with a call ...pointless... :roll:
I've never dated a gal that has the slightest idea of how to even turn on a computer much less use one ( I don't even mention HAZ anymore as I started taking the big yawns to personal )
My brother used to "Yahoo" but is more into news/financial these days. He continues to send me market links (maybe I'm nuts, but I've never had the urge to send a hiking link to somebody not interested in hiking )
Then there's my employees. Most of the guys seem to be on-line gamers. One guy decided he's gonna take two months off to play the new character? game coming out around christmas Another is a music nut, has every song recorded in history/ and remix there of!
I used to roll my eyes at the girls going to modeling school but I'm beginning to think they're on to something

did I get sidetracked???
Anyhow, my homepage is Excite, but I think it should be ...uggh ... Google

[olesma]

...anyhow been on-line back to the days of archie/veronica bla bla bla to the day when I got this "webspider?" thingy that you typed in "http://" before the address and pictures magically appeared.

Anyhow, my homepage is Excite, but I think it should be ...uggh ... Google

I remember those days! I even remember the "What's your baud rate?" question coming up. I remember participating in bulletin-boards. I've been online since you could do it. I even had a friend who had the same modem you saw in "War Games" with Mathew Broderic - that was the coolest thing EVER...back in the day. Not really online as such, but close enough. We spent hours playing really lame games "online" (we didn't call it that back then - it was his dad's computer and he just let us play once in a while - we were just playing on the computer).

My home page is the corporate page on my work computer. My home computer uses Google for the home page - it loads fast and is my primary jumping off point for lots of research I do.

Most of my online time is at work though - I probably only spend 2 hours a week online at home - but I'm online nearly all the time at work.

[bryanmertz]

hmmm...

I'm online basically all day at work, and I have a T1 at the house.

Between all my computers, I set the homepage to "blank"

I used to keep it on the NY Times or Washington Post for news headlines - and I visit the Drudge Report probably the most frequent - but not enough to warrant setting a home page. I think it was back when I had a dial-up connection and thought it was dumb to wait 2 minutes for Yahoo or Excite to load, so I can read ESPN.

Bryan

[HikerInGilbert]

I repair PCs for a living, and don't get a lot of chances to 'surf'. I normally swap around my homepages for a little diversity.

Currently it's AZFamily.com. I also use AZCentral, Google, and Yahoo in no particular order.

I can relate Olesma. I've been online for a while myself. I remember when Netscape was still Mozilla and Gecko. The BBs were pretty cool. I can remember getting the latest and greatest modem available. A 9600 I thought that was really tearing it up back then. Especially upgrading from a 1200 baud. I always wanted one of those phone modems. Pretty kewl back then.

Now, after using cable, I think a conventional modem would send me to the looney bin. :pois:

[AK]

I Yahoo with cable.

[Daryl]

Yahoo at home because I can set it up to show only the news and sports scores I want.

Google on the laptop because usually when I get on it I'm looking something up anyway.

Work home page on the work computer because someone said it's suppose to be that way.

[Rodney]

I experimented with the early 300 baud setup back in 1980...but, wasn't very impressed. I didn't really become an internet junky till Win95 came out. At the current time, I'm online approx. 12/7/365.

I use the Cox HighSpeed default home page...mainly because it does have local news that I can do about a 3 second scan on before continuing. Then I load up AZW & HAZ and keep them in the background as I work...building web sites, graphics and webmastering several sites.

[evenstarx3]

In early 1992 my girlfriend, and woman who owned the dog that became Bo & Dew's sire, owned a computer. She had Prodigy on her computer which was a major, for that time, Bulletin Board Service, with a forum for pets/dogs and a sub-forum for Basenjis. I started posting and met a lot of fellow Basenji owners from around the country as well as other breed owners. After girlfriend and I broke up, I really missed all the contacts I'd made on Prodigy, so bought a Compaq Presario one piece computer...think it was 1200 bps. Been hooked since. Especially like the forum type sites like HAZ and AZH. Have made a lot of great friends on such sites. Still stay in regular e-mail contact with eleven of the folks from the 1992 Prodigy days, though have only met one of them in person.

Home page is MSNBC where I can get a quick synopsis of world, national and local news, sports teams I follow, etc.

[Cakewalk]

I started out running a BBS up in seattle, called Syn-Tech BBS, I ran it on my Commodore 64 and 4 floppy drives.....

I then graduated to an AMIGA system and would log into the local college system and from there launch out via , lets see was it Pine, Gopher... who remembers ( yes Im old )

Then on to IBM with a superpowerful 300 baud modem.

When I lived in North Dakota, I never paid for internet service cuz it was easy to figure out another users UID /password. The one I used was John / John This was in the days when hacking wasnt really a threat.

My home page is now, and has always been Google.

Ask me some day about the poor little girl I scared that one time while learning netbus :twisted: :twisted:

[olesma]

a superpowerful 300 baud modem.

mmmmm....300 baud.... [ 2019 - broken image removed ]