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Web Singletons?
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?
And does anything approach the singular time-wasting abilities of IMDB or Wikipedia?
looks up at teh awesome bar (cough).
looks at uid.
sighs.
I'd say /. is relatively unique.
Me lost me cookie at the disco.
There's one site that I certainly hope is unique: goatse.cx.
Good, inexpensive web hosting
You can't beat /.
you had me at #!
I hear that eharmony is a good place to find singletons.
You must be new here.
Wrong; not a singleton: http://www.thymecube.com/
He isn't a douchebag, just a simpleton.
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.
AFAIK, this is the only site which will tell you if the LHC has destroyed the world yet. You can waste hours of time by checking it frequently, making sure that you're not dead yet! http://hasthelargehadroncolliderdestroyedtheworldyet.com/ and the source is fairly humourous as well.
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They do if you have any sense.
You are welcome on my lawn.
It's "fool me once, shame on... shame on you; fool me you can't get fooled again".