# Oh the horror! Worst. Site. Ever. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [February 2, 2003, 9:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-the-horror-worst-site-ever/152360 "2003-02-02T21:12:58Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![OpalCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8edcca/32.png) [@OpalCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OpalCat)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2003, 12:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-the-horror-worst-site-ever/152360/21 "2003-02-03T00:04:06Z")
There need to be more government regulations regarding Flash. With stiff penalties. ---
**Author:** ![Lobsang](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobsang/32/4067_2.png) [@Lobsang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobsang)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2003, 12:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-the-horror-worst-site-ever/152360/22 "2003-02-03T00:13:14Z")
That site could physically damage your monitor! ---
**Author:** ![Tripler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripler/32/21807_2.png) [@Tripler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tripler)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2003, 12:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-the-horror-worst-site-ever/152360/23 "2003-02-03T00:14:49Z")
Cripes. I couldn’t even get as far as the website itself. . . Tripler Damn six-clicks. . . ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2003, 12:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-the-horror-worst-site-ever/152360/24 "2003-02-03T00:50:31Z")
Where is Mirsky now that we need him? Flashy \<\> good. The problem is, everyone thinks they can design a web page. You should not be able to buy shockwave without an aptitude test, though. ---
**Author:** ![typhoon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ed8c4c/32.png) [@typhoon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/typhoon)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2003, 1:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-the-horror-worst-site-ever/152360/25 "2003-02-03T01:16:43Z")
I’m so disoriented now. ---
**Author:** ![OpalCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8edcca/32.png) [@OpalCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OpalCat)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2003, 1:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-the-horror-worst-site-ever/152360/26 "2003-02-03T01:37:23Z")
I hope everyone is either home or has a designated driver. ---
**Author:** ![OpalCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8edcca/32.png) [@OpalCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OpalCat)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2003, 1:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-the-horror-worst-site-ever/152360/27 "2003-02-03T01:39:59Z")
Here is a runner-up [http://www.datamaxarkansas.com/DatamaxMicro/index600.html](http://www.datamaxarkansas.com/DatamaxMicro/index600.html) ---
**Author:** ![elmwood](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmwood/32/3060_2.png) [@elmwood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elmwood)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2003, 2:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-the-horror-worst-site-ever/152360/28 "2003-02-03T02:10:32Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by yosemitebabe \* > \*\*Oh, that’s too easy, Tapioca. There are, sadly, too many wretched “poetry” sites with all the tables within tables and super-frilly web graphics. Ack! \*\* Yuppers! I’d say the AudioStar site is nothing, compared to the literally thousands of Geocities-based poetry n’ glurge sites published by Jean Teasdale types. Somewhere out there, there was the very first frilly purple poetry page, with forced MIDI and a tribute to the South. I’m amazed that such a site was an inspiration to so many Web authoresses, considering the presence of tens of thousands of graphic designers and their sites online. ---
**Author:** ![OpalCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8edcca/32.png) [@OpalCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OpalCat)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2003, 2:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-the-horror-worst-site-ever/152360/29 "2003-02-03T02:38:24Z")
Well, I think that geocities crap with 100s of animated gifs and huge fonts are ugly and lame… but this was just in your face horrid. ---
**Author:** ![C\_K\_Dexter\_Haven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b2d939/32.png) [@C\_K\_Dexter\_Haven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/C_K_Dexter_Haven)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2003, 3:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-the-horror-worst-site-ever/152360/30 "2003-02-03T03:19:52Z")
I have deleted the link in Opal’s earlier post, above. Links to graphic pictures are across the line, Opal, and you know better than that. ---
**Author:** ![Derleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Derleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Derleth)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2003, 4:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-the-horror-worst-site-ever/152360/31 "2003-02-03T04:21:26Z")
I am glad I’m using a text-only browser right now (haven’t even launched X to access the graphical links browser). I can view that site with impunity. It only consists of a single line of text. Muahaha! Nyah! (No, I have no links to add to this thread. Nuh-uh. Not me, nosirree. A mob of mods and admins would hang me.) ---
**Author:** ![TVGuy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/82dd89/32.png) [@TVGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TVGuy)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2003, 5:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-the-horror-worst-site-ever/152360/32 "2003-02-03T05:23:27Z")
Wanna bet the web developer didn’t get paid after creating the Flash and the basic framework of the site - then uploaded it anyway just out of spite knowing that the site owner wouldn’t know the difference? yuk. ---
**Author:** ![OpalCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8edcca/32.png) [@OpalCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OpalCat)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2003, 12:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-the-horror-worst-site-ever/152360/33 "2003-02-03T12:36:42Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by C K Dexter Haven \* > \*\*I have deleted the link in Opal’s earlier post, above. Links to graphic pictures are across the line, Opal, and you know better than that. \*\* _As I said_, I didn’t notice the stuff in the top left until **after** I’d posted it. The part with the guys peeing wasn’t graphic, it was just the tops of their heads and some toilets. ---
**Author:** ![OpalCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8edcca/32.png) [@OpalCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OpalCat)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2003, 12:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-the-horror-worst-site-ever/152360/34 "2003-02-03T12:37:47Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by C K Dexter Haven \* > \*\*I have deleted the link in Opal’s earlier post, above. Links to graphic pictures are across the line, Opal, and you know better than that. \*\* …errr, I should also add that the link to the site is still there. ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2003, 12:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-the-horror-worst-site-ever/152360/35 "2003-02-03T12:57:12Z")
\ The word ‘Loading’ should never appear in a flash object without a progress meter - this is especially true if the ‘loading’ screen causes seizures. ---
**Author:** ![garius](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e19b73/32.png) [@garius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/garius)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2003, 1:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-the-horror-worst-site-ever/152360/36 "2003-02-03T13:02:12Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by elmwood \* > \*\*Somewhere out there, there was the very first frilly purple poetry page. \*\* Sssshhh! Keep your voice down! What do you know of the Legendary Lost Page of Frilliness? Do you know where it is? For I too search for it as do many others here in this tavern - and not all of them are as nice as me. Some will kill you for any information that you may have! Many have sought the Lost Page (for it is said that one look at it will drive a man mad - a powerful weapon in the wrong hands.) yet all have failed. According to myth it is located deep within the great wilderness of Geocities - a dangerous place indeed. Many have died at the hands of the Pop-up demons or become perpetually lost in the eternal 404s of terror. Yet some have lived and returned in failure - and their tales inspire new waves of adventurers who too seek the Lost Page. My father was one such adventurer. He left my mother and me to take up the quest when i was only 8. It was the last time we ever saw him. So now the quest is mine. I will find the Lost Page and i will find my father. Or i will die trying. Come - let us pool our resources and search as comrades not enemies… WENCH! MORE ALE OVER HERE! ---
**Author:** ![Winston\_Smith](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e95f7d/32.png) [@Winston\_Smith](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Winston_Smith)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2003, 1:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-the-horror-worst-site-ever/152360/37 "2003-02-03T13:49:59Z")
:Twitch: :Twitch: ---
**Author:** ![Eats\_Crayons](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/278dde/32.png) [@Eats\_Crayons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eats_Crayons)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2003, 2:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-the-horror-worst-site-ever/152360/38 "2003-02-03T14:37:56Z")
Gah! I tried to resize the window and it totally crashed my Mac. (High speed internet access too!) ---
**Author:** ![elmwood](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmwood/32/3060_2.png) [@elmwood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elmwood)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2003, 5:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-the-horror-worst-site-ever/152360/39 "2003-02-04T05:21:49Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by garius \* > \*\*So now the quest is mine. I will find the Lost Page and i will find my father. > > Or i will die trying. Come - let us pool our resources and search as comrades not enemies… \*\* Post of the year material. Definitely post of the year. Granted, we’re only a month or so in, but I’ll nominate it. I see a medieval theme … with knights in shining armor, and unicorns, and castles, and poetry, and Old English lettering, and MIDI music playing in the background, and dedications of love to Jesus and the Holy Trinity … Dale, Dale Junior, and the Chevy … and Care Bears, and Beanie Babies, and the word “mail” orbiting around a giant letter “e” … ---
**Author:** ![garius](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e19b73/32.png) [@garius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/garius)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2003, 10:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-the-horror-worst-site-ever/152360/40 "2003-02-04T10:41:47Z")
not forgetting the page counter permanently stuck on 4. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-the-horror-worst-site-ever/152360.md?page=1)