Originally Posted by
Aussie2B
That 1996 Nintendo site looks familiar, but I know I was never on it. Must've seen it in a Nintendo Power screen shot or something. I didn't get on the site until 1998, so that's how I remember it. It's also the site that really got me going on the internet too. I got my first computer in 1998, and for the first few months, I barely turned it on except to research and write stuff for school. But eventually I decided to go to nintendo.com, and I got hooked, especially once I registered on the BBS (with this same user name, so my 15-year-old self is still tormenting me). By 1999, I was on the computer, particularly message boards, all the time.
I've had a web site myself in some shape or form since 2000 or 2001. I used Homestead and Geocities in the past, maybe others too, who knows. Geocities died for me a long time ago since I ran out of space with them in 2003, and from that point on, I've been hosted by a friend who has his own domain and generously gives me basically unlimited storage and bandwidth. If I ever have any problems with that, my boyfriend has a domain now too, so I'm set. It's interesting looking through my update archive, though. I still have updates saved from as far back as June 2001. I even have an update I made a few days after 9/11. I've never been big on the whole social networking and blog movements, so I always used my web site updates as a place to both write about my site work and a little about what's going on in my life and the world.
Reply With Quote
God, the internet's warped itself so many times.
