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Something I got into a conversation with my friend today really grabbed my interest: What do people generally use as their homepage? I use Google (A+ for convienience, F for originality), but he uses some obscure website I had never heard of and can't even remember now. So, what do other people use as their homepage? Any strange ones out there?
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I use Google.
The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation - Henry David Thoreau
Whatever doesn't kill you makes you stronger, and at the rate I'm going, I'm going to be invincible.
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This may sound strange, but I use the Lurker Lounge Forums. I hardly ever post but i enjoy reading them. A lurker in the true sense of the word. :ph34r:
I have my own signature. Yay.
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My start page is a blank one. I don't visit the same places in the same order every time I open up Firefox, so why have it point to the same page every time? :)
Intolerant monkey.
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My Fantasy Leagues (ala Yahoo), so that I don't forget to make fun of my friends as I beat them ;)
Trade yourself in for the perfect one. No one needs to know that you feel you've been ruined!
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about:blank
Being on a laptop, I'm not guarenteed to have internet everywhere I go, and I often use my browser offline to access resources on the hard-drive (Java API, PHP API, etc) and therefore it would be highly annoying to have a page attempt and then fail to load every time Firefox is opened. Well, not that I ever really shut it down. :P
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12-09-2004, 12:57 AM
(This post was last modified: 12-09-2004, 12:58 AM by Nomad25055.)
http://hls.deflektor.com/forums/index.php It's kind of dead as of now, because we basically moved ourselves to a new site because of the amount of unwanted attention we received from people the likes of myg0t :(. It's still my homepage though, as I have neglected to change it.
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12-09-2004, 01:24 AM
(This post was last modified: 12-09-2004, 01:24 AM by Dozer.)
Nomad25055,Dec 8 2004, 08:57 PM Wrote:http://hls.deflektor.com/forums/index.php It's kind of dead as of now, because we basically moved ourselves to a new site because of the amount of unwanted attention we received from people the likes of myg0t :(. It's still my homepage though, as I have neglected to change it.
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* Dozer keeps quiet about the time it would take to change it compared to the time it took to write that :shuriken: :shuriken:
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http://espn.go.com/
ESPN.com for all my general sports headlines needs.
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I use Mozilla, so I have a homepage set. I currently have the following tabs in my homepage set:
Business News
Stock Prices
Stock Prices small caps
Personal portfolio
Lurker Lounge
TV Guide
Hotmail
I also usually add a few pages depending on what games I'm currently playing.
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I have a mozilla homepage set, too, and it is as follows:
Lurkerlounge Forums
Chickenfist Forums (Sort of a local forum, it's been really... dead... lately)
Youthrant Forums (Our Honours Liberal Arts class's forum. I really like the fact that we have one. I'm not the greatest speaker in class...)
I have them as my homepages because they're the only things I really check regularly right now. Ummmmm.... yeah.
*Jumps on the bandwagon*
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Lurker Lounge front page. These are the only fora I frequent, and I like to start at the front page in case Bolty updates.
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12-09-2004, 06:07 AM
(This post was last modified: 12-09-2004, 06:08 AM by Griselda.)
Newyorktimes.com. I also have google, m-w.com, and several forums that I can get to in my toolbar, but I like having the news come up first.
I wouldn't recommend the site to anyone without a popup blocker, though.
Edit- two typos! Aargh!
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www.arewehavingfunyet.com
It is about as functional as about:blank but I figured, I'm paying for it, I might as well use it for something.
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google.com
I used to have C:\index.htm as my homepage, and in that page I'd just include whatever I used most. I used to have a small Altavista search frame, a few shortcuts, stuff like that. Then I just got tired of keeping it up to date.
I shouldn't really need to have google.com as my start page, sinve Firefox has a google search box, but I'm lazy and can't think of anything else to use :)
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Hail,
mine is
www.taucher.net
It's a German language site about scuba diving. I'm on the staff there, so I visit it a little more often than the Lounge.
Take care,
Lord_Olf
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Mine is the "general forum" of another board.
However with the LL on my toolbar, it's just 1 click away :)
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