My first host was also free, I forgot who it was, but quite a good host with some ads at the top though, I was a host noob back then and didn't find any ad free hosts.
I am hosting with Dreamhost right now, they're alright.
Lol. I think all webmasters start with free hosts and get used to web building and then move on to paid hosting. I was hosted by friends, E10, anglefire, and tripod. Then I moved to paid and bought domains.
i didn't start with a free host i started with a reseller that offered hosting to me for dirt cheap but i didn't use a free host and i guess i can be proud of that by the sound of it
I can still remember my first host. It was something along the lines of "you post in our forum x amount of times per month and we give you free hosting." It turned out to be a scam with a bunch of ads and stuff. It was the first time I used cPanel so for a while I though it stunk.