Who is the first free host?

[mshiva]

I would like to know who is the first free hosting provider.
Is it www.freeservers.com?

[Secret]

i don't know, maybe it's geocities or tripod.

[PH-Kev]

Think it was homestead, forget what they called it but im sure they were first..

[Gamer4u]

There was a time when Tripod was the best hosting for newbies, in my opinion. I haven't been around long enough on the internet to know.

[Amaresh]

The first host I used was way back in 1998, I think it was called AngelFire.

[[ih]Demetris]

I would venture to say its probably angelfire, or geocities..one of the 2 those guys have been around for a very long time..

[AMC]

Geocities methinks ;)

[krakjoe]

Earth .... very first free host that we know of ..... quite successful I'd say ...

Actually, I remember when I was real young way before I had heard of Yahoo or Geocities, my dad's isp, freeserve gave him like 1mb of webspace and a free subdomain ..... thats was years and years and years ago ....

[iBrightDev]

geocities, angelfire,tripod, and freeservers were some of the first. i dont know if you will ever find the real first though. funny that you mention freeservers though since i dave an account from them that i opened like 10 years ago. haha, this was my first site ever...
http://spazsrealm.8m.com/
i know, it is terrible. i was like 13 or 14, and the web was still pretty new. :p

[Keagle]

MCT, you can't use your age as an Excuse :P I'm 14 :p Just.

[Richard]

geocities, angelfire,tripod, and freeservers were some of the first. i dont know if you will ever find the real first though. funny that you mention freeservers though since i dave an account from them that i opened like 10 years ago. haha, this was my first site ever...
http://spazsrealm.8m.com/
i know, it is terrible. i was like 13 or 14, and the web was still pretty new. :p

HOW many adverts? :S

[Cam.]

http://localhost :p

[GlennBeforeTime]

I remember when I just started I used Angelfire so it's been up for a very long time.

[TSO]

Geocities was the first free host.

[RestoreMax]

geocities

[iBrightDev]

MCT, you can't use your age as an Excuse :P I'm 14 :p Just.
yeah, actually i can in this case. when i was 14, the web was still really new, and was not introduced in elementary schools like it is now. i never had used the internet till 7th grade, and almost everyone that was lucky enough to have a computer at home that might have internet only had aol. so yeah, it was a big deal at 14 to be making programs and doing html. now it is something that 13 year old children are being taught in school. the school i taught compters at for a year, taught children in 1st grade how to write programs that could control remote robots they would make. things are much different.

HOW many adverts? :S

i had no adverts, but, freewebservers loaded me down with a ton. :S

[MicGoogle]

it was mostly geocities, yahoo web, freewebs, tripod, aol hometown

[raversworld]

first geocities old page Oct 22, 1996:
http://web.archive.org/web/19961022173245/http://www.geocities.com/
second
angelfire old page Oct 28, 1996
http://web.archive.org/web/19961028070227/http://www.angelfire.com/
third tripod's old page Oct 22, 1996
http://web.archive.org/web/19961022175308/http://www.tripod.com/
Tripod and Geocities were the first two. Now it just comes down to the hour minute or second it was brought online.
Wow tell me this doesn't bring back memories:
This is crazy (http://web.archive.org/web/19981111184756/http://freewebspace.net/)
That was Nov 11, 1998

[nlfjamie]

mirco soft..

[Keagle]

Since when was Microsoft a Free Host?

[Adam]

Geocities was founded in 1994.

Tripod was founded in 1995.

Angelfire was bought by Lycos after Tripod was established. Was unable to find a date as to when Angelfire was founded. But Lycos considers Angelfire to be the sister site to Tripod.

[Adam]

Since when was Microsoft a Free Host?

Microsoft owns MSN which used to offer free hosting. But it was only 3mb..

[gentle]

Tripod and geocities are one of the first ones I used, an that's ages ago, so probably them :). Nice topic.