# In What Ways Has the Web Totally Failed You? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [July 18, 2008, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-what-ways-has-the-web-totally-failed-you/456983 "2008-07-18T19:48:10Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![HeyHomie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/heyhomie/32/207_2.png) [@HeyHomie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HeyHomie)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2008, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-what-ways-has-the-web-totally-failed-you/456983/1 "2008-07-18T19:48:10Z")
Has there been anything that you have been absolutely, positively unable to find on the web? I don’t mean things like _exremely_ esotreric porn (“I can’t get off unless I see a picture of a nun shitting on a Smurf!”) or something that is not even likely to exist. I mean: information, photos, music, or other content that should reasonably be expected to exist on the web (at least, in your humble opinion). Here is where the web (or my google-fu) has failed me so far: 1. One single, easy-to-navigate, easy-to-find, user-friendly archive of American Sign Language (ASL) signs, that doesn’t utilize flash, video clips, etc., and instead uses simple graphics and text. 2. A FREE archive of the Top 40 songs on the US music charts each week, going back to, say, 1960. What about you? ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2008, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-what-ways-has-the-web-totally-failed-you/456983/2 "2008-07-18T20:12:51Z")
[QUOTE=HeyHomie] (“I can’t get off unless I see a picture of a nun shitting on a Smurf!”) [/QUOTE] It’s out there, I’m sure. I’ve been unable to find any sites showing the basic anatomy of various flowers. Nor have I found much about how to draw them. You’d think that would be easy! ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Scrappy\_Hero\_Pup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/ea5d25/32.png) [@Happy\_Scrappy\_Hero\_Pup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Scrappy_Hero_Pup)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2008, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-what-ways-has-the-web-totally-failed-you/456983/3 "2008-07-18T20:40:17Z")
[QUOTE= HeyHomie] “I can’t get off unless I see a picture of a nun shitting on a Smurf!” [/QUOTE] [sub]…mom?[/sub] ---
**Author:** ![Coil](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/bb73d2/32.png) [@Coil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coil)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2008, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-what-ways-has-the-web-totally-failed-you/456983/4 "2008-07-18T21:21:36Z")
I have not been able to locate the lyrics to [Push by The Invincible Spirit](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p6hJg5wZ55M) (They are sometimes called Invisible Limit but Google fails to help using that as well). ---
**Author:** ![susan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/susan/32/17537_2.png) [@susan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/susan)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2008, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-what-ways-has-the-web-totally-failed-you/456983/5 "2008-07-18T21:28:48Z")
There are a lot of lyrics I haven’t been able to find. ---
**Author:** ![Bobotheoptimist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/919ad9/32.png) [@Bobotheoptimist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bobotheoptimist)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2008, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-what-ways-has-the-web-totally-failed-you/456983/6 "2008-07-18T21:45:51Z")
Huh, not exactly what I had in mind, but since I’m here anyway - The entire web is a letdown. I expected 3D VR, kind of like described in Neuromancer, long ago. In the mid-90’s I thought it was just a matter of processing power being insufficient and it appeared that people were working to implement the dream. But not so much now. And Lammas Night ebook. I can’t find one anywhere. ---
**Author:** ![fruitbat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/58f4c7/32.png) [@fruitbat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fruitbat)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2008, 9:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-what-ways-has-the-web-totally-failed-you/456983/7 "2008-07-18T21:46:26Z")
I have my pet project that I have just waited for someone else to start, but it never seems to happen. I will now reveal my super secret plan in hopes that someone will put it into action. There should be a single website that allows you to access all restaurants who will deliver food to your home. Whenever I have moved it has taken me months to figure out who will bring food to my door and I am sure I am still missing some options. With the mapping technology available this should be fairly easy to set up and I feel like restaurants would see the benefit immediately. This type of service does exist, but it is severely limited. There are websites like [www.whodelivers.com](http://www.whodelivers.com) that exist for one city, but even then they don’t offer the great majority of delivery places and the sorting methodology is crude. In my world you would go to the website and type in your address. Depending on where you live you would either get the whole list with links to the menus or online ordering capability, or you would get it separated by types of food. The site could make its revenue through advertising, coupons, or by serving as an online clearing house and tacking on a service fee for passing on the order to the restaurant. Please someone do this for me, I am sick of waiting for it to exist. ---
**Author:** ![Antinor01](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecae2f/32.png) [@Antinor01](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Antinor01)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2008, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-what-ways-has-the-web-totally-failed-you/456983/8 "2008-07-18T21:49:50Z")
Fruitbat, I’ve had good luck with [Menupages.com](http://Menupages.com) and [Delivery.com](http://Delivery.com). I doubt they have all of them, but menupages especially has been good. ---
**Author:** ![chacoguy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/50afbb/32.png) [@chacoguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chacoguy)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2008, 9:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-what-ways-has-the-web-totally-failed-you/456983/9 "2008-07-18T21:50:47Z")
[QUOTE=Happy Scrappy Hero Pup] [sub]…mom?[/sub] [/QUOTE] That was EPIC! ---
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2008, 9:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-what-ways-has-the-web-totally-failed-you/456983/10 "2008-07-18T21:58:17Z")
I’ve found nothing useful about Old Fort Silver, other than an obituary for a former hostess. ---
**Author:** ![Belrix](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ed655f/32.png) [@Belrix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Belrix)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2008, 10:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-what-ways-has-the-web-totally-failed-you/456983/11 "2008-07-18T22:17:24Z")
I want to be able to pull up a map of my area and have the buildings visible (something like google eath’s satellite view) but I want the business names to be posted on each building. A melding between business address and map location. I could see what businesses are in my neighborhood without having to drive around. Maybe do it in little cartoony blocks instead of a photograph. Doesn’t work that way (yet). ---
**Author:** ![MaxTheVool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9fc29f/32.png) [@MaxTheVool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MaxTheVool)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2008, 12:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-what-ways-has-the-web-totally-failed-you/456983/12 "2008-07-19T00:15:13Z")
[A similar thread from a while back](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=430674) ---
**Author:** ![Drain\_Bead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e47774/32.png) [@Drain\_Bead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drain_Bead)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2008, 1:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-what-ways-has-the-web-totally-failed-you/456983/13 "2008-07-19T01:25:26Z")
I have been looking for a particular clip from SNL for ages. It’s from right before the 2000 elections, and it’s a flash-forward to Bush’s first televised presidential address to the nation. At some point they show a map and the whole country has gone to hell. A portion of the country is on fire, the Mississippi has flooded and its delta has taken out pretty much all of Louisiana, California has fallen into the sea, that sort of thing. Looking back, it was remarkably prescient. And now I can’t find it ANYWHERE. ---
**Author:** ![Bobotheoptimist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/919ad9/32.png) [@Bobotheoptimist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bobotheoptimist)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2008, 1:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-what-ways-has-the-web-totally-failed-you/456983/14 "2008-07-19T01:45:00Z")
The comedian Tom Parks talking about his gall bladder operation was one of the funniest things I’d ever heard, can’t find it. “Nurse came in and asked me - ‘Mr. Parks, have you urinated yet?’ I will _never_ say no to that question again. She did something ugly to me.” ---
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2008, 1:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-what-ways-has-the-web-totally-failed-you/456983/15 "2008-07-19T01:48:49Z")
I’d just like a simple Hindi to English and vice versa dictionary. Is that so difficult, in this day and age? Yet I have not been able to find one. _shakes fist_ I know it’s out there! ---
**Author:** ![squeegee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/squeegee/32/14537_2.png) [@squeegee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/squeegee)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2008, 1:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-what-ways-has-the-web-totally-failed-you/456983/16 "2008-07-19T01:56:33Z")
I’ve wanted to find pix of the interior of [Stone Manor](http://www.flickr.com/photos/kidkilowatt/2620030062/) since I saw it in Lake Geneva WI a couple weeks ago. But all that seems to be out there is an exterior shot taken from the lake. Not even the front of the house! [See?](http://www.lakegenevabook.com/preview_homes.html) Only [pictures](http://www.chicagotribune.com/travel/chi-050814lakegeneva-photogallery,0,126870.photogallery?index=2) taken [from](http://activerain.com/blogsview/60255/Lessons-from-a-Lake) the [back](http://projects.thomashandkeefe.com/note/image/100/normal/lg_11.jpg)! What, the front looks like a Shakey’s Pizza? The interior looks like a Chuck E. Cheeze? What are they hiding? ---
**Author:** ![FriarTed](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/friarted/32/1052_2.png) [@FriarTed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FriarTed)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2008, 12:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-what-ways-has-the-web-totally-failed-you/456983/17 "2008-07-19T12:27:16Z")
The translated writings of Adam Weishaupt. With as many Conspiracy buffs out there, someone has to know German & have access to old copies of his books. Hell, Weishaupt’s death year is even up for debate. The old Catholic Encyclopedia had 1830 (I figure the RCC would have the records since he did reconcile with Her.) However, I also see 1811 quite often. ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2008, 1:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-what-ways-has-the-web-totally-failed-you/456983/18 "2008-07-19T13:40:04Z")
[QUOTE=Bobotheoptimist] I expected 3D VR, kind of like described in Neuromancer, long ago. [/QUOTE] I don’t think it will ever happen. Impractical and unnecessary. ---
**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2008, 2:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-what-ways-has-the-web-totally-failed-you/456983/19 "2008-07-19T14:26:40Z")
The web failed completely to help me identify my mystery song, which turned out to be George Benson’s “Doobie, Doobie Blues.” A friend of a friend wound up coming to the rescue. ---
**Author:** ![Bobotheoptimist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/919ad9/32.png) [@Bobotheoptimist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bobotheoptimist)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2008, 5:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-what-ways-has-the-web-totally-failed-you/456983/20 "2008-07-19T17:54:13Z")
[QUOTE=GuanoLad] I don’t think it will ever happen. Impractical and unnecessary. [/QUOTE] Just like landing on the moon. 😉 But VR would be fairly useful in a number of occupations, from medicine to SAN management. From there it’s a logical step to bring that technology to gaming systems (like they were trying 20 years ago) and to the desktop. I can envision even such mundane applications as message boards benefiting from it. There’s only so much information you can cram onto a flat screen, and it’s all about information access now. But I have no idea how to do it. I test and troubleshoot, I don’t create ☹ [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-what-ways-has-the-web-totally-failed-you/456983.md?page=2)