Frankly all of this is still true
This is how people lived before we invented bookmarks
I'm afraid to post too many urls from this 1994 internet guide because i know someone on here's gonna be like "i maintained that site for six years"
@hannah One of my friends was a Yahoo indexer in the 1990s and made enough money that he semi retired for a while before going into social work.
@hannah i remember carefully typing in addresses from a Spice Girls magazine
@forestine don't forget the www!
@hannah @forestine “double u, double double u, full stop, C. O. M.”
@hannah It's good that they specify the port in the address. Wouldn't want to accidentally end up in a gopher hole.
@eviloatmeal @hannah I feel like there’s an entire dark web on port 81, don’t you?
@hannah the port numbers are sending me.
@hannah reeling from "recreation.com/boats". a simpler time

@hannah by December 1998, the updated URL was already redirecting to a page that said "Sports Info Server has left" and suggested books to read instead. 😢

https://web.archive.org/web/19981202162326/http://www.netgen.com/sis/sports.html

@scott that's a shame but i wish more 404 pages gave me a reading list
@hannah bah. books are an outdated medium. 1990s-era web pages only
@hannah ah man, I remember :80 (I mean I still know :80 but)
@hannah the first website I went to was for Tide detergent because they put their website in a print ad
@Louisa it's smart to start exploring the web from a safe, comfortable home base like www.tide.com
@hannah what's the latest news in laundry scents
@Louisa @hannah I don't think it was my first but I do vividly remember visiting www.smuckers.com on the recommendation of a jam jar because I was like "what could you possibly need to put on a website for jam"
@hannah I have a lined notebook full of URLs somewhere
@hannah and search engines
@hannah I love the http://www. ... :80/ at the bottom ... JUST TO BE SURE!!
@hannah love this of radio 1 DJ reading out a URL in the 90s (20s in)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rGwxdUsrhhY
BBC Radio 1's Essential Mix reads out a website address

YouTube
@sarahdal @hannah It’s all gone Pete Tong.

@Nickiquote oh hang on wasn't he a wrong un

edit after searching: apparently not

@sarahdal Pete Tong’s fine as far as I know. Tim Westwood’s the wrong un. And evidently a load of others but I think you’re thinking of Westwood.
@Nickiquote yes, I was thinking of Westwood
@hannah emailing myself to friends to visit them
@hannah *appears in front of you, slowly, while making dialup noises*
@hannah "travel electronically" is so vintage
@hannah i love to travel electronically to countries all over the world
@hannah I'm not entirely sure about the first point though. Does it imply "correct and truthful" news?