Back in the early days of general internet access (when AOL was a Thing,
the Big Deal was this "search engine" thing called "Webcrawler", and the
hot browsers were Mosaic and this new thing called Netscape), the usual
thing to do was to create a page with links to your most commonly used
sites, and set it as your "home page", the page that was loaded
automatically when you started your browser.

Now, we have "favorites" or "shortcuts" (depending on which browser and
operating system you use), and enterprise "home pages" are often themselves
webapps which do fancy things, including (but not limited to) launching
both other webapps and native executables.

Some people still have (and use!) their old "home page" from the Netscape
days, and browsers still support setting a specific page to load as
default. But they seem to be a minority; most people now use the
favorites/shortcuts. The default starting page for most browsers now seems
to be an internal page that provides a "news" feed and/or a search engine
launcher to the browser distributor's favorite search engine (whether
proprietary or one of the Big Three [Google, Bing, DuckDuckGo]). But you
can still change it.

What do you set as your autoload page, if you set it at all?

(I tend to either leave mine as the browser default, or set it explicitly
to "about:blank".)

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