I don't remember the first websites I visited. It would have just been stuff at random that I heard about and wanted to try. Most of my early experiences with the World Wide Web were centered around the challenge of getting online and navigating it smoothly in the first place, because all of that so strongly ties in with the internet still being new, and better online connections being new and, in their way, challenging - especially if you wanted or needed the faster ones. And that was me.
I was using my first desktop PC at the time, purchased at our then-new Costco for $800, a "386" whose specs would be beyond laughable if I dug out the paperwork describing it. I had a 1200-baud and later a 2400-baud dialup modem, okay for early connections to things like the pre-Windows AOL, Prodigy, and the like. But once Windows became the standard and the World Wide Web was opening up, you needed to go all the way up to a 14,000-baud connection. Which was easily doable, except that for some cheap-o computers like mine, you also needed to upgrade the serial port (it's all starting to come back now) to run a really nice external modem like mine, OR you needed to install an internal modem which, being attached directly to the motherboard, would do the job. I agonized over that for quite a while and finally sprung for the internal one, and was finally able to get to some web sites. But it was still slow going, depending on the dialup connection or the service provider, and it took some time to learn the different ways of getting that connection good, and at an affordable price.
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