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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.

Hampsterdance, and this video.

"Goomba, fuck you" was hilarious to my 5 year old self.

Rage comics

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.

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

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

Microsoft Comic Chat (imo the concept still looks cool today)

Oo.. In ICQ voice