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Mirsky Makes "Open Business Plans"
Mirsky, the guy who brought you "Worst of the Web" until 1996, has returned to the Web. He e-mailed me about this "new open business plans." I do have to say I think that the Valueporn is a great idea - and Mirsky has the ultimate sticky EULA *grin*. That, and multiple online weddings.
Why should we allow .com to be squatted by pornographs perverting kids?
Why is this flamebait? This guy has a real point.
The internet does corrupt kids. We got the internet in our house 3 months ago and now my two teenage sons are constantly talking about girls. It's like they're obsessed. I know the internet is to blame because it is totally unnatural for teenage boys to be obsessed with sex. It's part of a slippery slope. First the health teacher tells them that girls don't have cooties, then they start looking at pictures of breasts on the net. Next stop is blindness, insanity and hairy palms -- or worse -- dating, marriage, child rearing and 401k's.
We must stop the net!
--Shoeboy
(former microserf)
I was so proud a few years back when a site I nominated for Mirsky's Worst of the Web got accepted, albiet in a different form. It was http://www.netcenter.com , home of this incredibly cheesy fellow who claimed to be "the center of the Internet". Netcenter then symbolized all that is tawdry in the world of the net, those odd entrupeneurs who would create a concept without any regard as to whether it was in any way useful or well done, filled with BLINK tags and bad writing.
It's quite ironic that netcenter.com was eventually bought by Netscape for its portal. Shed a tear for someone's dreams -- or don't, since I'm sure he held up Netscape for more than he could have ever made from the name himself.
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I read the main body text, then wondered why /. had mentioned an EULA. So I looked for it. Now I'm bound by it dammit!
It would have been his fault for making it look like a banner ad...
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