Archaelogical Wonderings

Sometimes I wonder what it must have been in the grand old days of yore.
You know, the days before the internet. Or Before ‘Google’ became synonymous with ‘search’.

“What did people do before the glory of Google?” I hear you ask (while blithely ignoring plaintive crys of “What about Ya-who.” And other such nonsense about extinct search engines)

Well, the standard thing (or possibly I’m guessing here) Was, think “what am I looking for”, find one word for it then put .com at the end. IE- want sex? Go to sex.com (And that one wasn’t randomly chosen, the history of Sex.com is grand, trashy, and just dying to be made into a good TV Drama, ala Underbelly)

The thing with just adding a .com, is that it doesn’t always work out right. For instance Lesbos.com is entirely unrelated to the popular Greek island tourist resort, and bigcocks.com contains virtually no information about the adult size of the Rhode Island Red.

But it can be fun.

There was a game that I used to play a lot after first getting the ‘Internet’ in my first share household. It was a Student household, and we drank a lot, so you might guess where this is going, but the game was called –

Dirty-Word.Com

The rules are simple, think of the filthiest thing you can think of, put a .Com at the end, and then type it into your internet browser.

It was a hilarious game, and, as mentioned, probably isn’t as funny while sober, or for anyone with weak sensibilities.

But it beats faceboozing – The excessive updating of a facebook profile while drunk.