What website have you been using the longest?

amazon.com since like 1996

http://www.weather.gov/

probably ebay and hotmail, both since '99ish

i still check memepool for triannual updates

i really cant remember what i did when i first got online besides look at porn and search for wu-tang info. my first email addr was from a place called mailcity.

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My all-time internet first & favorites

Lycos for search between 1996 - 1999. I still have an e-mail address there.

ha awesome xp

RIP Addicted to Noise

Newbury Comics is the first place I remember ordering CDs from, circa 1995 (probably a Mighty Mighty Bosstones album or something). And I guess I read Salon sometime between 1996 and 2000.

probably yahoo. used it as a search engine pre-google and have been using it for the past 5 or so years for fantasy sports purposes. there may have been a bit of a break somewhere in there, but everything else i did around those days is AOL-style archaic.

once in a blue moon i might look at something on the NME site so that's ten years or so.

i've used imdb since about 97', then amazon(i probably first heard of amazon when they bought imdb), and i still use a netscape mailbox from back then(now aolmail i guess)

xp i forgot yahoo!

Yahoo since early 1995. IMDB since like 1996. AMG from 1996-97 on(usage has dropped off a bit in recent years, of course). IGN(or whatever IGN was called back then) and Gamefaqs from late '97. Livejournal and SomethingAwful since 2002.

I never ordered a book off of Amazon until 2000, with the Mick Foley autobio. Hell, I lived in the town where Borders was based, what did I need a website for?

table talk on salon used to be great, esp regarding politics and film. its pulverization of American Beauty, with lead by David Edlestein. was an internet touchstone for me.

used and still using? hotmail i'd imagine. although i'd probably still dabble with #sinister if it still existed (and now i think about it i guess it still might)...

eh i def used amazon ebay and yahoo 98ish - i dont really use ebay and yahoo anymore tho

Yahoo as a search engine beginning in...'94?..and I have an email account there presently.

Can't say. Too trivial a matter to grapple with. FWIW, I think '94 is too early for Yahoo even to have existed.

Is the MIT coffee pot webcam still around?

I just visited wikipedia on the subject of Yahoo, since that is just the sort of stuff it does best. Turns out, Yahoo began 1994 as "Jerry's Guide to the World Wide Web" (or some such prosaic name). The name changed to Yahoo! mid-year in 94, and it was only incorporated in spring of 1995. So, if you used Yahoo in 1994 you were a gen-yoo-wine Young Pioneer.

silver jews bulletin board since c2000

The longest "thing" I still occasionally use is a few channels on oz.org on IRC - not the web, but the one thing left I still use from that long ago (1997ish). Back then I used altavista but I dont know. Ive never had a hotmail account.

Yahoo and slate since early 1997. started reading the new republic online in early 1995 on a temp job at the university of minnesota and probably still would if it wasn't subscription-only. read about the oklahoma city bombing online on that temp job.

"But I don't know" should = "But I don't now" there. I am so out of it today.

NO EXCUSES

The name changed to Yahoo! mid-year in 94, and it was only incorporated in spring of 1995. So, if you used Yahoo in 1994 you were a gen-yoo-wine Young Pioneer.

Yeah, I dunno. I remember using some search engine in autumn of '94, but I guess it was likely not Yahoo, but rather some built-in function of Mosaic or whatever the hell browser was attached to the PC's/Macs in the computer labs at my school at the time. I'm pretty certain I was using Yahoo by '95, though. I can usually remember this kind of thing better, but I guess it has been over a dozen years now...ack!

I used IMDB when it was still the Cardiff Internet Movie Database, which would have been 94 or 95.

I remember reading an article in the Guardian in summer 93 about Mosaic and the World Wide Web and thinking "woah what is this hot new tech that is passing me by". Then I went to uni and all my questions were answered.

AMG I guess, from '98 on. I still have hotmail accounts from '98/99 as well. I first used the internet at uni in '95 a couple of times in intro to computing classes but can't remember what sites, some search engine or other on Netscape.

Ebay probably. Since June 1997, it seems.

http://www.snopes.com/

I've used Snopes since 1998, when I started using Internet in general, and I still check it from time to time. I was also a regular on their message boards in 1998-99. IMDb probably followed soon.

http://www.vpn.no (football fansite for Vålerenga)
http://www.perseus.tufts.edu (Latin & Greek classix: texts, dictionaries etc)
http://www.deja.com (usenet search, now Google Groups)

ona regular basis, babelfish

www.abc.net.au since about 2000

still use my hotmail address from pre 1996 for odds and ends.

yahoo, chain of flowers (Cure fan site)

Wait, Altavista is down? You'll be telling me next that Webcrawler's gone...

IMDB sounds like a decent guess.

http://www.lolrider.com

I used webcrawler in the mid-90s so that must have been the first, also the aforementioned babelfish. According to my Amazon order history I bought Four To Score (!) in June 1998.

http://java.sun.com

Also this pretty much since it started...
http://www.bbc.co.uk/
1996?

http://www.superbad.com

I've been on www.shroomery.org since 1999 because of longstanding interest in amateur mycology.

http://www.newsnow.co.uk since sometime in mid-1997. Still my homepage.

xpost yeah i found erowid pretty quick too but i hardly ever go anymore. and deoxy.org was a MINDBLOWER at the time but i haven't been there in years.

I hate to say it, but the thing I've been looking at for longest might actually be Pitchfork? Since like 97/98 or something.

tremendoid: I too thought deoxy.org was MINDBLOWING. In those days, erowid was hosted by hyperreal and was really disorganized with lovely tidbits of completely untrue information mixed in with the useful stuff, adding an element of unpredictability to one's experimentation.

yahoo/geocities
silver jews message board
imdb.com (still remember all those icons on top of each movie instead of a list on the side.)

cricinfo!

i would say recs.com but there is no reason anymore to be interested! i never thought they'd get this boring.

Yahoo since 1995

silver jews message board

holy shit this still exists??!?!?

i just realized i've been on the matador board for at least 10 years.

I use ign.com over gamespot.com for my video game needs
Metacritic is good for game reviews
Rotten Tomatoes for movie reviews
Home of the Underdogs for the game forum
Mmorpg.com for anything forum and mmorpg crap
Download.com for applications
and forums.afterdawn.com for any video game help (like psp crap)

I still use babelfish, from the days when altavista was at digital.com

Actually www.cocteautwins.com I still go to on occasion, and thats one of the original ones I went to - though the forum is changed/moved now.

i only started using a computer in 1999, and i remember searching for stuff here a lot:

http://www.dogpile.com/

and at ask jeeves.

i don't remember google back then.

i started selling stuff on ebay in 1999.

and i joined a swans e-mail list and a katatonia e-mail list in 1999. i posted on them for two or three years. then they kinda went away. i didn't follow them to wherever they went.

I guess I still look at Salon occasionally; I was certainly reading it in 1995.

chalkhills.org

Also rotten.com