4 ms·
The first time I had the chance to use the internet I typed in "whitehouse", hit enter and whitehouse.com loaded. It turned out to be a porn site, the teacher s
by Zsolt 6y ago
The first time I had the chance to use the internet I typed in "whitehouse", hit enter and whitehouse.com loaded. It turned out to be a porn site, the teacher saw and I got banned from using the internet - in 40 seconds.
- jdironman 6y agoWhite House was the first time I ever seen porn / naked women. Cue me spending the next 6 months sneaking to load the page on dialup all hours of the day. To be a kind again. Now we have TBs of data but tend to be uncontent sometimes.
- rusk 6y agoAnybody ever type alta-vista.com by mistake? The search engine had no hyphen, this address went to something else ...
- jdwithit 6y agoHeh, was about to post this one myself. My buddy got in big trouble in the high school computer lab making this typo. I wonder what percentage of domains in the late 90's were simply "adult" sites trying to capture traffic via typos. It certainly felt like a lot.
- 11235813213455 6y agowhat search engine was the culprit?
- divingdragon 6y agoSome browsers automatically "fix" addresses by appending `.com` for you. I think even Firefox used to do that until mid 2010s.
- checkyoursudo 6y agoIn late high school or maybe during college, my wife was going to look for something at Dick's Sporting Goods by navigating to a domain that any ordinary person might expect. The result was not what she expected.
- pbrb 6y agoLOL, I used to fuck with people by getting them to type this into the browser. Unfortunately, these days it actually takes you to Dick's Sporting Goods.
- fma 6y agoI knew someone who tried to go to hotmail.com but went to hotmale instead...