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60x1.com
The lengthy url http://www.111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111.com/ takes you to a website created by artist Kenneth Tin-Kin Hung. He refers to the site as "60x1.com." Elsewhere he explains that the site is an artistic experiment in bad website design:60X1.com is a website whose sole content consists of splash pages — the opening pages for most websites, usually containing a small amount of graphics. After clicking through all the splash pages the spectator will find there is actually no core content, opening the question of definition regarding content in web pages.
60X1.com is designed to be user-unfriendly, aiming to serve as a counter structure to the model of most successful websites — portal sites where all the links are contained in one interface in order to generate a maximum number of hits, instead 60X1 is designed to generate a minimum amount of hits with it's long domain name, one way navigation and it's big file sizes of images, existing as an experiment to test viewers' patience and expectation, as well as calling the internet into question as a forum for communication.
60X1.com is designed to be user-unfriendly, aiming to serve as a counter structure to the model of most successful websites — portal sites where all the links are contained in one interface in order to generate a maximum number of hits, instead 60X1 is designed to generate a minimum amount of hits with it's long domain name, one way navigation and it's big file sizes of images, existing as an experiment to test viewers' patience and expectation, as well as calling the internet into question as a forum for communication.
The challenge, as you click through the splash pages, is to find the word "enter" which is hidden somewhere on each page. Until you find that word, and click on it, you won't be able to get to the next page. I got about five pages in before I gave up. So I guess his experiment in bad site design worked! I've reproduced a few of the splash pages below.
Posted By: Alex - Mon Jan 14, 2013 -
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Category: Art, Internet, Strange Websites
Thinspo
The pro-anorexic board on Pinterest.
The anti-anorexic rival.
The mockers.
Posted By: Paul - Sun Mar 25, 2012 -
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Category: Addictions, Body, Body Modifications, Internet, Strange Websites
Steve Jobs: 1955-2011
Steve Jobs passed away earlier today. This may not seem like the kind of thing to post on Weird Universe, but consider what kind of place this world would be without him. Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak created the Apple II, the first home computer many would use, and thanks to this and other innovations like the graphical operating system, the internet friendly iMac, and the always connected iPhone, the world is now fully connected, allowing anyone instant access to the kinds of weird things we here at Weird Universe love. Sure, he didn't create the internet all by himself, but if it weren't for some of the innovations his company pioneered, the world might have turned out to be a much more normal (and boring) place than it is today.
Posted By: Salamander Sam - Wed Oct 05, 2011 -
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Category: Death, Obituaries, Technology, Computers, Internet
Cornify
Posted By: Paul - Wed May 26, 2010 -
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Category: Cryptozoology, Kitsch and Collectibles, Internet
Digg Serendipity
Enlarge the screen shot with a click to see why.
Posted By: Paul - Mon Mar 29, 2010 -
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Category: Synchronicity and Coincidence, Advertising, Internet
Salamander Sam: Back in Action
As very few of you are probably aware, I have been away for a while. Now that I have returned from winter vacation I can start posting again, and I will start with a few weird things I have found around the internet over the past few months.First, we have an ad that I noticed right here on Weird Universe:
I know Microsoft is evil, but getting their rival to link to their competing service? That's just terrible.
More in extended >>
Posted By: Salamander Sam - Sat Feb 06, 2010 -
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Category: Entertainment, Advertising, Internet
Weird Korean Posters
Posted By: Paul - Tue Oct 28, 2008 -
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Category: Education, Computers, Internet, Foreign Customs, Asia
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