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What are your first internet memories? What are your first internet memories?
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A team at the research centre Cern has restored the world's first WWW page to its original state – in recent years the address has been redirecting to the info.cern.ch front page. It's part of a project to help future generations understand how the world wide web came about, and the way we originally used it. In addition, Cern want to hear people's experiences of visiting the first webpage.A team at the research centre Cern has restored the world's first WWW page to its original state – in recent years the address has been redirecting to the info.cern.ch front page. It's part of a project to help future generations understand how the world wide web came about, and the way we originally used it. In addition, Cern want to hear people's experiences of visiting the first webpage.
By the time you got on the web, you may well not have been aware of Cern's first page, so we'd like to know about the first site you do remember visiting. Did you spend your first online moments being shown the Hampster (sic) Dance, or looking at a coffee pot on a webcam? Do you remember spending a frustrating hour waiting for the dial-up tone to stop crackling, only to "surf" to a webpage that froze halfway though loading? Perhaps your internet memories stretch back past the web era, into the world of Gopher and other pre-WWW protocols. Or are you young enough that your first web memories are firmly in the web 2.0 era? Tell us what you remember about going online. Are there any sites from back there that you still visit?By the time you got on the web, you may well not have been aware of Cern's first page, so we'd like to know about the first site you do remember visiting. Did you spend your first online moments being shown the Hampster (sic) Dance, or looking at a coffee pot on a webcam? Do you remember spending a frustrating hour waiting for the dial-up tone to stop crackling, only to "surf" to a webpage that froze halfway though loading? Perhaps your internet memories stretch back past the web era, into the world of Gopher and other pre-WWW protocols. Or are you young enough that your first web memories are firmly in the web 2.0 era? Tell us what you remember about going online. Are there any sites from back there that you still visit?
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