These days searching through the internet is a lot simpler than it used to be. A quick search in any of the more popular (and even some less popular) search engines will pull up a list of just about anything you're looking for in a matter of seconds. However, if one was to look at the list these search engines pull up most of the time, a list of links to sites never heard of promising everything can be seen.
People like to refer to the early days of the Internet being the wild west of the Internet's history. It was a time when only the most knowledgeable could get a website up and running, register a domain name, and manage the server to allow any kind of server side processing. It was a mystery, uncharted territory, and only the bravest of souls would dare peruse its dim lit back roads.
However, despite its unforgiving appearance and rough edges, there was something that could be said about it's integrity. Due to the effort needed, and money required, to make anything public back then, it was a safer bet to trust what you were seeing online. It was a nerd's paradise.
Now, fast-forward fifteen years, the marketing potential of the internet has long since been realized. The Internet Bubble phenom is long over, the lessons have been learned, and the internet is now a highly polished, regulated, smooth, and glossy version of itself; it's terrible.
It takes absolutely no effort to publish a web site these days. Editing, manipulating, and sharing a site is as simple as just buying or downloading a prefabricated site and uploading it to a server and, bingo, in business.
People like to say that the Internet has evolved and become more efficient. On the contrary, the Internet has not improved one bit. Much like a fit and lean man gaining two hundred pounds, under all that fat, that lean and fit Internet can still be found. Who wants to cut through all that fat though to find what they're looking for? More importantly, who can even know if what they found is what they were looking for and not just more fat?
Let's presume someone wanted to download an mp3 of their favorite song. That person goes to their favorite search engine and types in the name of the song and tries to find a site to download from. Let's just assume, for the sake of this article, that the person is looking for a completely legal means to download the song. Of course, first they check all the big boys; Amazon, iTunes, Napster. Despite their search of those sites, their song cannot be found there. So, they resort to searching the lesser known sites on the Internet.
The problem is about 99% of all mp3 download sites are complete scams. The Internet has become a cesspool of banner ads, scams, and misleading links.
People like to refer to the early days of the Internet being the wild west of the Internet's history. It was a time when only the most knowledgeable could get a website up and running, register a domain name, and manage the server to allow any kind of server side processing. It was a mystery, uncharted territory, and only the bravest of souls would dare peruse its dim lit back roads.
However, despite its unforgiving appearance and rough edges, there was something that could be said about it's integrity. Due to the effort needed, and money required, to make anything public back then, it was a safer bet to trust what you were seeing online. It was a nerd's paradise.
Now, fast-forward fifteen years, the marketing potential of the internet has long since been realized. The Internet Bubble phenom is long over, the lessons have been learned, and the internet is now a highly polished, regulated, smooth, and glossy version of itself; it's terrible.
It takes absolutely no effort to publish a web site these days. Editing, manipulating, and sharing a site is as simple as just buying or downloading a prefabricated site and uploading it to a server and, bingo, in business.
People like to say that the Internet has evolved and become more efficient. On the contrary, the Internet has not improved one bit. Much like a fit and lean man gaining two hundred pounds, under all that fat, that lean and fit Internet can still be found. Who wants to cut through all that fat though to find what they're looking for? More importantly, who can even know if what they found is what they were looking for and not just more fat?
Let's presume someone wanted to download an mp3 of their favorite song. That person goes to their favorite search engine and types in the name of the song and tries to find a site to download from. Let's just assume, for the sake of this article, that the person is looking for a completely legal means to download the song. Of course, first they check all the big boys; Amazon, iTunes, Napster. Despite their search of those sites, their song cannot be found there. So, they resort to searching the lesser known sites on the Internet.
The problem is about 99% of all mp3 download sites are complete scams. The Internet has become a cesspool of banner ads, scams, and misleading links.
- We are NOT interested in getting that silly ringtone on our phones.
- We will NOT download your silly game inundated with spyware.
- We are NOT interested in finding out who's searching for us.
- We will NOT check our credit score on a site who's lifespan is probably two weeks.
- We are NOT interested in winning a free Xbox 360, Playstation 3, Nintendo Wii.
- We will NOT get that free laptop, iPod, or iPhone.
- We will NOT work from home for $5000 a day.
SO STOP ASKING!
Anyone who falls for this should be ashamed of themselves.
Let's clean this place up, or at least run a few laps around the track and burn off some of this fat we've gathered over the last fifteen years.
Anyone who falls for this should be ashamed of themselves.
Let's clean this place up, or at least run a few laps around the track and burn off some of this fat we've gathered over the last fifteen years.
1 comment:
Are you saying I won't get that free black MacBook pro if I sign up for four trial accounts that cost no more than two dollars a month? Those bastards!
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