[website] 50 Most Annoying Things About The Internet: As Compiled By The Telegraph

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The image below is suggestive as to the author's opinion.

 

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Original article link: 50 Most Annoying Things About The Internet

[DrPerceptron]

The ironing was delicious. ( See #37 )

 

It's not so much lists I hate, I love reading lists, some are fun... I hate reading lists that are say 50 things long (*cough* ) and almost feel as though at least 1/4 are just filler things that don't actually really matter, but the person couldn't think of anything decent to put in, or pick a smaller number for more of an impact.

[PiqueABoo]

1) They let the riff-raff in.

[torledo]

Ambrose Pritchard Evans articles.

 

Guess who he writes for ?

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[TechMonkey]

19) Websites that are too wide for the browser

A less common problem these days, as web design and browsers become more sophisticated.

Or someone upped your resolution from 600x800 & you haven't noticed.

[webman]

51. Lists of things

[ICTSM]

52: Download NOW

53: Download NOW!

54: Download NOW FFS

55: DOWNLOAD THE F NOW!

[torledo]

19) Websites that are too wide for the browser

 

Or my bugbear, webpages that don't print properly [the right hand side would always get cut off] .

 

Am i right in thinking this was primarily an IE6 problem.

[Arcath]

52: Download NOW

53: Download NOW!

54: Download NOW FFS

55: DOWNLOAD THE F NOW!

 

or

 

Download NOW!!!!!!!! but before you do are you intrested in this product from our sponsor? oh this file is 0.0000000000000000000000000000000000000000001b over our limit for non registered users please register for $9.95 per second to download it.

[SC-UK]

Or my bugbear, webpages that don't print properly [the right hand side would always get cut off] .

 

Am i right in thinking this was primarily an IE6 problem.

 

This was improved with IE7 onwards, but there will still be the odd website that will not print properly.

 

To be honest though, it's not very often that you should be printing web pages as a whole, rather copy and paste the relevant information out into a word / notepad etc document and print that.

 

Sites that are usefull to print, such as technet articles, generally have a print view option anyway

[sparkeh]

1) 'Worse than the Nazis'

"As an [online] discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches one." So states Godwin's Law, the observation first made in 1990 that still stands today. Many online communities counter this moronic rhetorical device by ruling that the first person to make a Hitler comparison loses the argument by default.

 

Hahaha thats so funny (and true)

[ICTSM]

or

 

Download NOW!!!!!!!! but before you do are you intrested in this product from our sponsor? oh this file is 0.0000000000000000000000000000000000000000001b over our limit for non registered users please register for $9.95 per second to download it.

 

heh heh...I aimed this at the Sun site

 

Click 'Java Download"

Click "Download"

Click "Free Java Download"

Click "Free Java Download"

 

WTF?!?!?!

[torledo]

This was improved with IE7 onwards, but there will still be the odd website that will not print properly.

 

To be honest though, it's not very often that you should be printing web pages as a whole, rather copy and paste the relevant information out into a word / notepad etc document and print that.

 

Sites that are usefull to print, such as technet articles, generally have a print view option anyway

 

actually, i do print web pages fairly often. Obviously the copy and paste method works better if the oriignal page is going to end up printing across 7 or 8 sheets, but for convenience i do like to print a webpage or two now and again.