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The Internet, In a Nutshell…

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Since all of the good .COMs have been used up, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (or ICANN for short) decided it was finally time to give the world some options. As one would naturally expect, .wtf was chief among the new top-level domain names to be made available to aspiring registrants and was added in 2014 alongside others such as .ink, .ninja, .kim, and .sexy. Supposedly, .ink is for tattooing, .ninja is for people with special expertise and skills, .kim is for people named Kim (huh?), and .sexy is for really good looking people. Of course, the name .wtf was taken from an improper Internet acronym that would never be repeated on this website.

Here is a glancing view of the World Wide Web in 2015:

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It’s so nice to see the Internet taking bold steps forward. Personally, I can’t wait to register the domain CHADSPACE.POS as soon as it becomes available. I just hope that somebody doesn’t snap it up before I do!!

(Don’t) Be Evil

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I’m thinking about starting my own company and calling it the Fuzzy Wuzzy Bear Corporation. The mascot will be a bear named Bert (AKA Fuzzy Wuzzy) and he will sport a healthy, benignly charismatic grin on his Disney-approved face. We will take hundreds of pictures of Bert with underprivileged school-children and strategically share them with our customers, most of whom would not think of themselves as customers because they never pay a shiny copper penny for anything that we offer. Bert will serve an instrumental role in our exceptionally sophisticated and equally clever business maneuverings where we give everything away for free and somehow make billions of dollars in profits every quarter.

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While any normal person would be inclined to call this plan “half-baked”, my fellow investors and I know it will not only succeed, but that others will be eating double helpings of crow for the decades to come.

Truth in Advertising..?

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I wish that I was making this up, but YouTube has been serving an almost exclusive mixture of Geek Dating icon-external-link-12x12 icon-search-12x12 and Metalhead Dating icon-external-link-12x12 icon-search-12x12 advertisements as of late. How does it know? Also, who in the world would have guessed that online metalhead dating could become a viable enterprise?

In typical Interweb fashion, these advertisements made their way to me by following a peculiar trail of digital breadcrumbs: I was watching a fan-made video for the Deftones song Rivière that happens to steal all of its footage from a video for the song Fantasy by Breakbot.

Fantasy icon-external-link-12x12 icon-search-12x12 (track 02 from the By Your Side LP by Breakbot icon-external-link-12x12 icon-search-12x12 )
→ Rivière icon-external-link-12x12 (track 11 from the Saturday Night Wrist LP by Deftones icon-external-link-12x12 icon-search-12x12 )

Regarding the metalhead dating website, I would love to crack into that database for a few hours. Just imagine the hoots and hollers that are to be had.

The Fantabulous Interweb

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I just noticed that the domain pms.xxx is available. Rest assured that I was using a very different source name during my initial inquiries.

Sorry folks… Internet acronyms definitely aren’t as valuable as they used to be. Only $99.00 at GoDaddy.com. What a bargain.

Can’t wait to see who will be the lucky taker!