Let's try this again.
Have you ever played one of those games with your friends where you say a word, then your friend replies with the first thing that comes to mind? Such a game goes something like this:
- T: fish
- H: pole
- T: north
- H: movie
- T: Anastasia
- H: Russia
Well, it occurred to me today that web surfing is often like this. You go from one page to another, clicking link after link finding all kinds of cool unrelated stuff. When I first came on the 'net a couple of years back, personal pages were prevalent. People would have links to their favorite sites and the term surfing
was used to mean going from one site to another by following links. Well, I do this sometimes and I thought it would be interesting to see how I found a specific page. So, here goes:
- Destination: a neat site about a guy who built a lego desk
- Referrer: who is married to the owner of this weblog site where the owner posted about her husbands recent purchase of 360,000 pieces of LEGO
- whose site I found while browsing the links at another weblog site
- reached after browsing the site at the other end of the Blogger link posted as part of that companies policy (you'll notice the link on this page :))
- having first seen that Blogger link at this site
- linked to by her boyfriend
- whose page I found via a link posted in Opera.Off-Topic
- which I was reading due to my use and advocacy of the Opera web browser
- which I found and use due to prolonged exposure to sub-standard software, such as Netscape Communicator and MS IE (I am not linking to that site. As if they needed me to perpetuate their monopoly).
Yeah, so I thought that was a pretty cool. Of course, much of this occurred over a prolonged period of time. However, the final six or so sites are fairly new to me, found due to my boredom in one of my classes this semester. :)
