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White 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.


Anybody ever type alta-vista.com by mistake? The search engine had no hyphen, this address went to something else ...


Heh, 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.


Then there was expertsexchange.com, which was always bound to disappoint one of two demographics.


Heh, like the msexchange manager icon on your microsoft exchange server... :D




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