What is YOUR homepage?!
Hi guys!
Just out of general interest I wonder what everyone's homepage was. Mine is SkySports.com. Which is the website for a set of sky channels dedicated to sport...DUH!
Sky is like the American version of Cable. Although you get SkyOne I think. God! It's been so long since I was in America that I cannot remember. 
The Webmistress posted this at 19:07 — 27th May 2003.
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These forums are my 'homepage'
openmind posted this at 19:41 — 27th May 2003.
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Ooooh you brown noser!!!
Just kidding....
Google.com for me....
Megan posted this at 19:58 — 27th May 2003.
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http://www.uwaterloo.ca at work
)
http://my.opera.com at home (never got around to changing it! Good to keep op on the Opera news anyway
Suzanne posted this at 19:59 — 27th May 2003.
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Mine is still my blog (with the links to forums being what I hit first), but more and more the first thing I'm using is the RSS reader, so I'm not using the browser as much, meaning soon I may not have a home page, such as it is.
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taff posted this at 20:23 — 27th May 2003.
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Mine actually resides on my hd. It is a rather utilitarian portal page - a collection of links, tickers, login interfaces, etc.
nike_guy_man posted this at 20:45 — 27th May 2003.
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I don't know why but Yahoo is mine
On all 7 of my comptuers
I never use my homepage, I should make it something I go to all the time, but that would throw out my balance of the neutral homepage of Yahoo
Busy posted this at 07:59 — 28th May 2003.
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about:blank is my homepage on all browsers, quick loading, never down, clean layout
oops I lied, on mozilla my homepage is an html file with Boring old homepage just so I know what the default background color is (h1 tags are in the code - nothing else) doesn't validate
<?bhb if(broken){ echo("It wasn't me
"); } ?>
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Renegade posted this at 08:23 — 28th May 2003.
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My home page in all* my browsers is an HTML file I made that contains links that I frequent, miscellaneous links and other random links
*All except for IE5 which is set to about:blank because I don't use it that much.
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disaster-master posted this at 09:14 — 28th May 2003.
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I have my homepage set to my.yahoo.com on my IE browser.
I have to read the news first thing with my coffee while I am waking up. I have tried others but I always go back to yahoo news.
Opera is set to these forums.
brady.k posted this at 23:58 — 29th May 2003.
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my homepage is a php script i created that picks a random number, and then visits a pre-determined website that i frequent (one of fifteen) based on that number. pretty cool.
Kyle Brady, President, Intuitive Industries LLC.
http://www.int-ind.com
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Renegade posted this at 06:54 — 30th May 2003.
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Hey! That's a pretty homepage.
Just out of curiosity why did you decide to do that? Just for fun?
Wil posted this at 12:23 — 30th May 2003.
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Mine's Yahoo! and has been for the last 6 or 7 years. If it ain't broken ...
brady.k posted this at 20:29 — 30th May 2003.
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yea...i did it just for fun...i'm learning PHP so i did a little side project...i learned a little, put some stuff i've been learning with it. its cool.
Kyle Brady, President, Intuitive Industries LLC.
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beyondxtasy posted this at 18:02 — 23rd June 2003.
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why its beyondxtasy.com of course...lol. its my site. this way i can keep track of everyone who went on it since i was there last
apples oranges posted this at 19:37 — 23rd June 2003.
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i'm boring. google.com for me.
Jack Michaelson posted this at 10:49 — 25th June 2003.
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I've made my own
A local html-file with links to the sites I most visit (Google, TWF, Apple, some dutch sites, some blogs and some projects I'm working on)
Shakespeare: onclick || !(onclick)
Suzanne posted this at 12:00 — 25th June 2003.
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I used to have a page of all the client projects that I was working on, et cetera, but Mozilla brand browsers and Safari (Mac only) saved me this drudgery. Now I have folders of bookmarks and I can open a whole folder into tabs with one click, and adding files is a matter of dragging them into the folder. I make new folders for each client and ta-da!
So, my homepage now is my personal site, though more and more I don't use it, instead I use the news aggregator to get RSS feeds, and my folders to open regularly visited sites that don't work the same way (i.e. this one, where an RSS feed isn't quite what I want, though one would be useful for updated and new threads).
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Renegade posted this at 06:35 — 26th June 2003.
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I just remade my homepage and I love it so much I just had to post it up
BTW the TWF link is on hover :S
ROB posted this at 08:17 — 26th June 2003.
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yup
Abhishek Reddy posted this at 10:15 — 26th June 2003.
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I used to have a poorly designed, locally hosted portal, but since formatting, I haven't bothered making another one... or even just copying the old (ugly) one from disk.
otoh, starting off with a fresh bookmarks list in Moz Firebird allowed me to recalibrate and clear out all unnecessary junk. Also, shortcuts such as search boxes for google and dictionary which I had on my home page are taken care of in Firebird itself, so I don't have a need for it anymore.
My home page until a few days ago was planetarion.com, just to remind me to develop a habit of checking my account there. Now I've shifted back to physicspost.com.
abhishek.geek.nz
OnlyPhp.com posted this at 16:29 — 27th June 2003.
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ummm let me think
about:blank
libertynewmedia posted this at 14:03 — 11th July 2003.
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I like google as a home page asd its what i normaly use first and it doesnt take long to load unlike some banner ritch cluttered sites
Timewell posted this at 14:13 — 17th July 2003.
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Renegade - Your homepage is neat! really neat!
R.Scott posted this at 16:58 — 21st July 2003.
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its google for me
necrotic posted this at 21:33 — 22nd July 2003.
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JeevesBond posted this at 21:43 — 22nd July 2003.
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Yep, about:blank for me - best bit of web page Microsoft have ever done
KeithMcL posted this at 00:34 — 23rd July 2003.
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google.ie for me at the mo.
I used to have it set to my own forums, but whenever my sister or my dad went online it went to my forums. If I went online afterwards I never got to see all the new posts made as the cookie had been updated assuming it was me
I used to use about:blank too.
Does anyone remember that little trick you could do with IE that would load it without any page at all, not even about:blank?
It made it load up even faster, but I can't remember it
It was something like adding a -n to the end of the shortcut properties. Maybe it doesn't work on newer OS'
My Sites: THD THDF WV TC WDP ES WS IHH
Suzanne posted this at 00:44 — 23rd July 2003.
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hey, nifty, you can get Google in Irish as well. That Google.
forwardtrends posted this at 15:24 — 25th July 2003.
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my homepage is a list of javascript functions that automatically resizes the window to 6 different resolutions (handy for those max screen width pages which max out your browser size) - I've also got my server statistics, web stats, and my email address book all done in SQL.
Aaron Elliott
forwardtrends.com
KeithMcL posted this at 20:31 — 25th July 2003.
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Sounds like a pretty good page Aaron. Did you write it yourself?
Timewell posted this at 17:59 — 29th July 2003.
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Wow...never knew this topic was still going strong!
Why do so many people have google for a homepage?
Megan posted this at 20:09 — 29th July 2003.
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I find that interesting too - it's rare for me to do a search first thing when I get online. Usually I make the rounds at my usual sites and then, if there's something I need to look for, I might do a search but even then it's from the google search box not from google.ca. I haven't seen the front page of google in ages!
Here's another question - what's the first thing you do when you get online?
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KeithMcL posted this at 22:07 — 29th July 2003.
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I've got mine set to google because i'm not the only one that uses this PC. My sis and dad generally go online to look for something, so it's best set to google
My Sites: THD THDF WV TC WDP ES WS IHH
taff posted this at 23:35 — 29th July 2003.
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Who says I go offline?
But seriously, that's an easy one for me - I check my mail then check my 3 most regular boards (including this one)
hmmm - not always true actually. I've got a news ticker embedded in my homepage and depending on what's crawling there, I might hit CNN.com first
.....
Timewell posted this at 09:16 — 30th July 2003.
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I do the forum run, after reading my homepage. Basically, I go round and check all the forums I have on my list for anything interesting. I'm boring...
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The Webmistress posted this at 09:31 — 30th July 2003.
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My PC is never offline, but first thing I do when I am sat at it is to check my mail then open a browser window and check this forum, then other forums.
Julia - if life was meant to be easy Michael Angelo would have painted the floor....
KeithMcL posted this at 00:21 — 31st July 2003.
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I'm the same as the others here. Check my mail, then my websites, then other forums and then surf around for fun after that.
Busy posted this at 07:33 — 31st July 2003.
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I check my spam, jump around the room if I actually find an email, have another cup of coffee and depending on work load check forums/sites etc or check the net stuff after work (or both on easy day)
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Paisleyskye posted this at 23:16 — 8th August 2003.
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I keep mine set to google. I have found that it is a resource that I use multiple times daily, so I might as well have it accessible.
Griffy posted this at 00:05 — 9th August 2003.
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mine is "about:RG the mad Peemp" but ya know that's just me
Suzanne posted this at 01:03 — 9th August 2003.
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Paisleyskye, they meant for your browsers. Unless you have your browsers set to your own sites.
Paisleyskye posted this at 01:13 — 9th August 2003.
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OMG! Am I ever a dork! I thought it meant home page for your websites...
What should I do, should I edit my last post? Like I said, I've got a lot to learn - moreso than I thought apprarently...
Peace Out!
Paisleyskye
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Suzanne posted this at 01:18 — 9th August 2003.
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lol, don't sweat it. Why not edit it and tell us what your home page is?
Besides, we all have moments like that. I think I've had about fourteen today. Not a good day!
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andy206uk posted this at 12:53 — 11th August 2003.
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I use google.co.uk on my home computer and my work PC is set to the company intranet thingy.
Andy
kbeus19 posted this at 02:53 — 21st August 2003.
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yahoo is mine, only since my mail is through them.
hostito posted this at 15:41 — 1st September 2003.
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mine is :blank: that way the browser loads quick. I do not always want to start on the same page, and sicne I have everything I love bookmarked, no need to visit same same on start up.
I had my own home made when I was younger, but it is not so important to me now. I just want apps to load quick
http://www.hostito.com
tuffy posted this at 03:40 — 2nd September 2003.
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I have my browser homepage set for news.google.com. I like to surf through the news headlines before doing anything else.
Jack Michaelson posted this at 12:32 — 2nd September 2003.
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This is mine:
(click for large example)
Abhishek Reddy posted this at 22:51 — 2nd September 2003.
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tsk tsk, Jack, using IE.
My homepage is back to :blank. After a few reinstalls of Linux and then Moz Firebird, I gave up on customising these things too much, until I'm sure of sticking with one software.
Trouble is, with Moz Firebird 0.7 coming up, and my intention of switching distros again in a month or two, I doubt I'll be customising for a while...
abhishek.geek.nz
Timewell posted this at 18:21 — 10th September 2003.
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Was that a Mac, Jack?
Oh god...a rhyme
I hate accidental rhymes.
DC_Sara posted this at 18:25 — 10th September 2003.
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about:blank here, loads up quickly!
The first thing I do online is check my email, then I surf the boards and blogs I read every day.
Been a while since I have been here though, missed it!
Sara
~*Sara*~
Backlinker posted this at 09:58 — 14th September 2003.
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About blank for me but I like Renegade's idea. It sort of turns your home page into a "Favorites " list. I might try that.
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