My dad pretty much was on the world-wide-web as soon as it became available. The company he worked for was selleing PCs to their employes. A Star 386 cost 5000 euros instead of 8000 which was a bargain back then.
So my brother and I where in the net almost at the start. I recall having a text-file where I would store all the web-adresses that I would access/check out whenever I got the chance to use my dads PC. So in the early time I recall looking for MMA stuff (rented UFC 1 on VHS when it came out in 1996) and was stumbling on Sherdog.com which is the DV of MMA-Websites. Also was visiting the website of "The Ruff" which was a guy from the UK who I ordered vinyl from before the internet was around. Before the website, I would get a mailorder-list by snail-mail, where you could fill out the order-sheet, fax it to the Ruff, he would fax me back the total amount so that you could send him a check to then receive the ordered records by mail 3-4 weeks later. So with his website the process to order records was a blessing as you could order faster etc. In terms of news I was and still am visiting Spiegel.de which is a weekly news magazine from Germany which is really reliable and has an online presence pretty much since the start of the net. That magazine is owned 51% by the employes/writers which I find rather unique in news-media. And of course there were the porn sites. Big shout out to the user "stupid dummy" from D's Forum who was providing free logins for all these sites pre streaming to the scratch community 😁