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PC World's 25 Worst Web Sites
Cilibrin writes "PC World has posted a story on the 25 dumbest dot-coms and silliest sites. Among those to make the list are the pet-related Neuticles — a site for testicular implants for pets — and every child's favorite, Rabies for Kids." From the article: "As venture capitalists scramble to throw money at anything labeled Ajax or Web 2.0, and Web publishing becomes so simple that anyone with a working mouse hand can put up a site, we offer our list of the 25 worst Web sites of all time. Many of our bottom 25 date from the dot-com boom, when no bad idea went unfunded. Some sites were outright scams — at least two of our featured Net entrepreneurs spent some time in the pokey. Others are just examples of bad design, or sites that got a little too careless with users' information, or tried to demand far too much personal data for too little benefit. And to prove we're not afraid to pick on somebody much bigger than us, our pick for the worst Web site may be the hottest cyberspot on the planet right now. "
Should've taken all 25 spots.
I'm glad it made number one. I work in a computer lab as a student at a university, and Myspace is responsible for more browser hangs than everything else combined. That site is a festering cyst on the asshole of the internet.
25. Rentmychest.com.
24. IKissYou.org
23. InmatesForYou.com
22. Digital entertainment network (den.com)
21. Golden Palace Casino
20. Hotmail.com
19. WebVan
18. Beenz.com and Flooz.com (tie)
17. Boo.com
16. Microsoft Windows Update
15. Neuticles.com
14. BidForSurgery.com
13. Whitehouse.com
12. The Dancing Baby
11. Rabies for Kids
10. MyLackey.com.
9. HamsterDance.com
8. BonziBuddy
7. Pets.com
6. Pixelon.com
5. AllAdvantage
4. CD Universe
3. Cartoonnetwok.com
2. CyberRebate
1. MySpace.com
People need to get basic information from somewhere, what's so terrible for this particular source?
In a story with 1500+ votes, Digg users acknowledged THIS to be the worst web site ever:
http://www.kwota.net/cdc/default.htm
A quote: "I feel like I lost a part of my web design soul just by viewing this site."
"23. InmatesForYou.com
This site helps you find that special someone, even if you have to wait 13 years for her parole to come up."
I tried clicking on the link but it says "Service Unavailable."
I hope this wasn't slashdotted.
The best part is PCWorld's site sucks.
I don't know what their minimum requirement is, but I don't like to maximize my browser window, so I can see what's going on in the background. I have a large screen though, so most sites will fit in a window that's roughly 1024 across...not this site though!
And who doesn't love an article that's broken down into at least 5 separate pages? I know there's nothing I love more than clicking and waiting 5 times, just to read a single article.
This list is completely wrong, Hamster Dance is the de facto standard of excellence in web design. Ive modeled almost all of my geocities sites after it, and nowadays I try to implement its design features the my personal, and friends, myspace pages.
BonziBuddy is about as silly as the Spawn of Satan.
This must be a list of the 25 worst websites that don't list themselves.
Of the 60 million active websites out there, they're trying to tell me that I've even heard of any of the worst 25? I was expecting 25 on par with "neuticles" or "rabies for kids," not another baseless rant against Windows Update. And don't nobody mention Dancing Baby, which is so good that 7 years later I just showed it to my wife a week ago (who's too young to have seen it--25.) Moral of the story: no major magazine has ever put out a legit list (besides the Fortune 500.) PC World's list of the worst websites was as much of a letdown as every time you get suckered into reading those "PC World's 25 ways to speed up your computer!"
--Colin Jensen
colinandbethany.com
Nope. They aren't a joke.
I've seen them. On cars that is.
Would you kindly mod me +1 insightful?
I agree. I think Hamsterdance, badger, all your base, etc. Are all a matter of "How funny did you find it?". They obviously weren't meant to be seriously attracting someone to use the site with some kind of purpose. I think the entire list should be redone minus joke (or "one hit wonder") web sites.
I think a list of "worst web sites" should be done using only serious material. If you had a "dumbest quote" contest, you wouldn't include intentional jokes.
I love Neuticles. I think they are one of the best products on the market for dogs. I can picture this endorsement:
Customer: After I had my first dog, Scamp, snipped, he just didn't lick himself with the same enthusiasm. When we were going to get our second dog, Arny, snipped we heard about neuticles. After they removed his manhood, we had the install a big ole pair of neuticles. He was unsure of himself for a few days. He sniffed at them tentatively, gave them a lick and he was hooked. I decided to get a pair for Scamp installed. And boy was he happy. Now, both dogs lick themselves with the same enthusiasm as if they had real balls.
Arny & Scamp: (in unison) Woof! Woof!
"You'll get nothing, and you'll like it!"
I've never known anyone to have trouble with it. How is it difficult to click the "update" button and let it do everything for you?
This sounds more like a lame attempt to bash "Micro$oft" yet again.
Resistance is afoot:
http://code.google.com/p/moshi/
Innovation makes enemies of all those who prospered under the old regime... -- Machiavelli
can be seen on a 4th season episode of "Penn & Teller: Bullshit!" You can hear and see the inventor sum up his invention in his own words, accompanied by Penn's chiding commentary. If it's not enough for you to just *read* about artificial pet testicles, and you're more the type who wants to *see* them, then feel free to get ahold of the episode. It's episode 406 from season 4, entitled "Pet Love". You can probably get it right now using your favorite p2p program.
:) Although it would be pretty awesome to make some kind of "not only the president, I'm also a client remark" and whip out a second "supplemental" pair as proof positive of my commitment to the product.
And no, I am not Penn Gillette, nor do I have some kind of vested interest in selling you a pair of fake doggie balls.
how many pairs of boxer shorts should you own?
I say this as someone who both loathes myspace, and has an account (granted w/o any information filled in), but how is signing up for a myspace account resistance? The problem with moshi conceptually, is that people don't care whether their code or their CSS is kosher, they just care that it looks the way they want it to. I guess i just fail to see how moshi encourages people to be better. Even if you give a proof of concept, that doesn't mean that anybody is going to jump on the bandwagon.
There are lives at stake here!
"Ladies and gentlemen, my killbot features Lotus Notes and a machine gun. It is the finest available."
FTA: "In 2003 Zuccarini pleaded guilty to violating the Truth in Domain Names Act and was sentenced to 2.5 years in the federal pen."
What? Truth in Domain Names Act? So if I create a site about rocket launchers and register it to fuzzybunnies.com I can go to jail? Can fuzzybunnies be a porn site?
Like perhaps most people, I skipped first to #1.
The ease with which anyone of any age can create a page, upload photos, share deeply personal details of their lives, and make new "friends" quickly turned MySpace into a one-stop shopping mall for online predators.
I lost interest in the article right about here. thinkofthechildren, etc.
(Come to think of it, aren't shopping malls one-stop shopping malls for "predators"? Oh, teh irony!)
Property is theft.
Myspace: where blink tags go to die
Myspace: It's like being trapped in geocities, during 1996.
Anyone else?
henry -- the human evolution news relay
I now have to go to goatse to get that melange of hideous images out of my mind. As far as I can tell, hosanna1.com is a site for born again afghan dogs.
people don't care whether their code or their CSS is kosher, they just care that it looks the way they want it to.
Also, the way they want it to look is often terrible - most of the MySpace sites are either completely unreadable because of some background the site owner has decided to apply, or just plain annoying because they've decided that absolutely everyone must hear their favorite piece of music so they push it upon you as soon as you open the page.
From what I can see, the one good thing MySpace has done is group a large amount of crap in one place so it's easier to avoid.
(And I'm not even going to get started on the number of MySpace people who have taken to whoring my bandwidth by linking full size 6MP photos off my web server as their background images without permission).
http://blog.nexusuk.org
A typical /. effect for a front page story is 80,000, so I don't think a link in the comments would get 500,000. It looks like they set their counter to start as 500,000 and have had 692 visitors since then.
So I click "Worst Site #1" link directly.
And what opens? PC World. With a bunch of floating flash ads over the article. No wonder.
No, if you scroll down to the bottom of the page you will see they have a picture of a dog with the words "great site award".
this proves without any doubt that it is actually a top quality web site.
Each time you enter private property, it's like entering a mini Communist Soviet Union. Check your rights at the door, please. If you don't like it, don't enter private property. Constitutional rights only protect you from the government, not private parties.
DRM 'manages access' in the same way that a prison 'manages freedom'
The best part is PCWorld's site sucks.
Yes, and that goes a long way to foil the author's baseless elitism. A recurrent theme of the article is snobbery. MySpace looks bad because people are stupid and evil is their central message:
Let's take out the cluebat.
Blaming the users is stupid. Other sites look better because users have been given better tools. Facebook, YouTube, Blogger and others all look good and work well. Do those sites raise the "level of discourse"? Yes, better than this flamebait article from PCWorld.
Friends don't help friends install M$ junk.
That site just has to be a joke.
Surely someone has made that site as bad as possible as a joke to show their friends. No one could be that truly awful and still claim to have "the most beautiful pages on the www".
Check out the "Why we suggest you use IE" page: http://www.hosanna1.com/AAAWWW/why/index.html
Tell me that's not a joke. It's just impossible to take seriously. The inaccuracies sprinkled with a hint of misunderstood technical info is just impossible to believe!