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Web Singletons?

Posted by timothy on from the magrathea-dot-com dept.

tcmb writes "There are an uncounted number of web mail and picture sharing services, there are more than enough web sites for online bookmark management and friend-finding, but as far as I know there is only one Internet Archive. Which are the true web singletons, services that exist only once in this form?" And does anything approach the singular time-wasting abilities of IMDB or Wikipedia?

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  1. What? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Seriously what?

    1. Re:What? by Minwee · · Score: 4, Insightful

      But whoever thought the term applies to the services provided by web apps is just an idiot.

      Some day, I'm going to have to introduce you to a new game called 'Bridge', something called 'set theory' or perhaps just to the concept of 'twins'. Then you might learn a few whole new meanings for that word and wonder why you were such an idiot about it before.

    2. Re:What? by AmberBlackCat · · Score: 5, Insightful

      The good part for the Internet Archive is they can't rip off the idea and do it better because they'd have to go back in time to get the data.

    3. Re:What? by roguetrick · · Score: 4, Insightful

      On the subject of patent trolls, Blackboard fits this, despite being such a horrible piece of crap.

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      -The world would be a better place if everyone had a hoverboard
  2. Slashdot by zobier · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I'd say /. is relatively unique.

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    Me lost me cookie at the disco.
  3. The grand-daddy of them all... by Nick+Driver · · Score: 4, Insightful

    ...is still alive!

  4. TV Tropes by roystgnr · · Score: 4, Insightful

    And does anything approach the singular time-wasting abilities of IMDB or Wikipedia?

    Google for "TV Tropes". No, I'm not giving you a URL. If I had to go find the URL, I might accidentally look at the URL. And then I'd end up clicking some of the links there. But there's no way to read through a Trope page without being curious enough to click on at least two of the links there, and then two of the links on each of those, and then... well, I just put dinner in the oven and I do not want to suddenly snap out of a fascinated reverie an hour from now when the smoke from my kitchen burning down reminds me that I'm starving.

  5. Re:Here's a semi-unique time waster for 'ya ... by ShieldW0lf · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Singletons are the loneliest objects that I've ever seen...
    Factories can be as bad as a Singletons
    They're the loneliest objects since the Singleton

    False is the saddest value that you'll ever know,
    True, it's the saddest value that you'll ever know...

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    -1 Uncomfortable Truth