Re: What's your Start Page?

**icky** · 03-29-2007, 12:15 PM

Originally Posted by JMJ

Fark.com

Surprise surprise...

**Boulderdash** · 03-29-2007, 02:11 PM

Originally Posted by Wimpinator

Most honest statement ever.

Eh, no one ever said I don't know how things are.

Anyway, I can take solace that corner-carvers.com is where I spend most of my time. It's the last bastion of all tech, no bull**** information on the web I'm pretty sure. Last time I checked, I'm one of the few regulars that is younger than 30.

**CingularDuality** · 03-29-2007, 02:38 PM

I have four tabs as my home pages: Google.com/ig, TG, my bank, and RedHotPawn.com.

**RyGiL** · 03-29-2007, 03:57 PM

netvibes.com

And within netvibes, RSS to all my favorites sites (including one to TG forums)

**JMJ** · 03-29-2007, 04:10 PM

Originally Posted by icky

Surprise surprise...

You were supposed to say "Wow, you have great taste!"

**icky** · 03-29-2007, 05:01 PM

Originally Posted by WhiskeySix

what's the deal w/ the about:blank's? i mean really?! you guys have bandwidth issues or do you just like the color white??

I'm just embracing Microsoft's "Where Do You Want To Go Today?" buzz phrase.

I almost always open my browser with a purpose, and that purpose is not often the same. I've just never felt the need to load a particular page automatically. Setting browsers up this way became a part of my routine long ago, and I never had a reason to change.

When I set machines up for others, I usually point them at google.ca.

**UnDeaD** · 03-29-2007, 06:20 PM

Originally Posted by icky

I'm just embracing Microsoft's "Where Do You Want To Go Today?" buzz phrase.

I almost always open my browser with a purpose, and that purpose is not often the same. I've just never felt the need to load a particular page automatically. Setting browsers up this way became a part of my routine long ago, and I never had a reason to change.

When I set machines up for others, I usually point them at google.ca.

One thing I never got, was what was the point of having region specific websites?

I'm able to goto google.ca as well as any other google domain. Should it not let me or something? I guess I've never understood? Can other countries not access our .com's?

**Root** · 03-29-2007, 06:22 PM

Originally Posted by UnDeaD77

One thing I never got, was what was the point of having region specific websites?

I'm able to goto google.ca as well as any other google domain. Should it not let me or something? I guess I've never understood? Can other countries not access our .com's?

I would imagine the primary reason is to stop someone else registering one of those region-specific URL's.

**UnDeaD** · 03-29-2007, 06:24 PM

Originally Posted by Root

I would imagine the primary reason is to stop someone else registering one of those region-specific URL's.

Well that makes sense to. Maybe I'm an idiot and never thought of it.

I love the new Google themes, really cool. Google just offers alot, although if I didn't have google I'd have Yahoo as my default.

**icky** · 03-29-2007, 09:19 PM

Originally Posted by UnDeaD77

One thing I never got, was what was the point of having region specific websites?

I'm able to goto google.ca as well as any other google domain. Should it not let me or something? I guess I've never understood? Can other countries not access our .com's?

google.ca has the ability to search "only Canadian sites", and news.google.ca has a larger dose of Canadian news. I'm sure other country-specific domains follow this pattern, though I've never looked.

To understand the larger reason for the country-specific top-level domains, you would need to read some internet history.

**ednos** · 03-30-2007, 12:31 AM

Let's not forget that some countries have official languages, and some of these are not English.

**Pokerface** · 03-30-2007, 10:06 AM

about:blank. My bookmarks take me where I want to go, not my homepage.

**corporate** · 03-30-2007, 02:25 PM

I use Protopage.com

This is what mine looks like.

**ednos** · 03-30-2007, 04:46 PM

Is that a picture of you? That's cute.

**corporate** · 03-30-2007, 10:09 PM

Originally Posted by ednos

Is that a picture of you? That's cute.

Yea, I'll be 6 yo in a few months. LOL

It's my awesome kid.

Protopage lets me post pics, use RSS feeds, other websites (I'm using it with Game-Monitor.com to see the TG POE2 server) and links of course. It does a lot of other things too, I just use a small number of it's features.

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