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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.


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


In 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.


LOL, 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.


I knew someone who tried to go to hotmail.com but went to hotmale instead...


what search engine was the culprit?


Some browsers automatically "fix" addresses by appending `.com` for you. I think even Firefox used to do that until mid 2010s.




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