I think it was when my friend showed me how to ping google.com in the Ubuntu Terminal. My first ever OS was Ubuntu but I didn't used the magical Internet very Mich back then.
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Hampsterdance, and this video.
"Goomba, fuck you" was hilarious to my 5 year old self.
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Yoshitopia messageboard, probably. Obviously wasn't the very first thing I ever did online, but it must have been an early find.
Oh god, or signing up for e-mail at Garfield.com. The web during the dot-com boom was weird.
Microsoft Comic Chat (imo the concept still looks cool today)
making maps in warcraft 3 in elementary school and getting in to a mapmaking guild with people of all ages and genders. those were the days
Bembo's Zoo (defunct): https://bemboszoo.com/
It was an interactive website with animal animations for each letter of the alphabet. The animals were made from the letters.
- Archive (non-interactive): https://web.archive.org/web/20000816172409/http://www.bemboszoo.com/
- Blog post about the site: https://soundeffects.fandom.com/wiki/Bembo%27s_Zoo_(Websites)
- YouTube demo play-through: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kzbp-UPs5lw
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I learned English from zombo.com
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