“Useless” in this context doesn’t mean poorly done or of no value at all, it just means that there isn’t any point in making these things available on the web. If you see a page and think “Good God, WHO CARES?” you have found a likely submission. I just thought the subtitle was amusing. Actually, they’re quite well represented. The discovery that someone had typed in his entire 30K CD collection for Since you’re wasting your time even now, the useless pages page is first on the list of useless pages.I don’t mean to preclude those outside the Americas from being considered useless. Through Usenet I brought this to the attention of other like-minded sorts who experience pleasure through the ridicule of others, who deluged me with pointers to ever more useless creations.Īnd so the Useless Pages were born, christened with approximately the following text, inaccurately preserved for posterity (it is uncertain just how much this has mutated from its original form.) Its utility was nil, its style banal, its content embarrassing, its unintentional humor value high. Sometime in 1994 (yes, Virginia, there WAS a web back then) I encountered “ Kenny Z’s CD list” during a late night search session. (Unlike most of the Useless Pages, I’s in this text refer to Paul Phillips, not Steve Berlin. What you will read in the next lines, is an article written by Paul Phillips in 1996! This is a work in progress, you can expect changes as soon as I get my hands on new material about the useless pages. You are going to witness the birth of The Useless Web, the real and original one, not our contemporary one. Big as in Colossal, something like the Big Bang of pointless, useless websites. In search for new useless websites to offer our visitor we came upon something really big. After the third and fourth 10 spins, they stop, and I didn’t stay on long enough to find out if/when they come back.A Brief History of Uselessness on the web It counts the spins, which is helpful if you’re counting something, and it also gives you a funny saying after the first 10 spins, and the second 10 spins. You enter the website and watch a taco spin. Taco Spin is exactly what it sounds like. Let’s take a look at some of the Internet’s top useless websites, and explore whether they truly are useless or not. Despite the fact you may just log onto a useless website to kill some time, you are indeed killing time and thus fulfilling your purpose! However, I would argue maybe even that has a purpose. You can only stare at the screen and watch what’s happening. You cannot shop for a product, you cannot browse articles about any sort of topic, nothing. Sure, no problem! I would personally define a useless website as a place on the internet where you cannot do something. Let’s dive in a little deeper! What do you mean by “Useless”? However, I can see both sides of the argument. Some could argue this may not be true - how could staring at a spinning taco have a purpose? Great question! I believe there are many ways. I feel there could be no such thing because everything has a purpose. As a millennial whose job and academic career revolve around social media, I find it hard to believe there is anything online that could be considered a “useless website.”
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