Comments on: Completely new websites!

Completely new websites!

slater — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 00:10:34 -0800

Tired of the current web? Have all the cool domain names already been registered? The second web bills itself as ~~geocities 2.0 with a web browser-esque interface stuck on top of it~~ "a completely new World Wide Web. A new Web Browser, a new domain name system and completely new websites."

By: davejay

davejay — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 00:17:46 -0800

I, too, have a completely new World Wide Web to offer. In my pants. And it is EXPLODING. it is also under a DDOS attack

By: shakespeherian

shakespeherian — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 00:18:21 -0800

What.

By: davejay

davejay — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 00:18:55 -0800

Also: I used the second web browser to browse www.thesecondweb.com. RECURSIVE FAIL.

By: twoleftfeet

twoleftfeet — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 00:20:06 -0800

My father fought and died for WWW I. Therefore I refuse to die for WWW II.

By: mannequito

mannequito — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 00:21:15 -0800

oh...come...on i saw this spammed all over several message boards two weeks ago

By: weston

weston — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 00:23:23 -0800

It's like orangatango, but 10 years later and with the texture and flavor of spam.

By: shii

shii — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 00:26:20 -0800

Similar to Second Life, the main trouble with this website is that I need to use money from my First Web to purchase a space in the second one.

By: shakespeherian

shakespeherian — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 00:27:44 -0800

I can hardly wait for thethirdweb.net.

By: allen.spaulding

allen.spaulding — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 00:33:27 -0800

I have a bridge in second life to sell you.... Wait, I wish I did. damn.

By: slater

slater — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 00:44:40 -0800

Don't forget to press F11 for maximum secondweb enjoyment!

By: Rhaomi

Rhaomi — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 00:48:08 -0800

How is this even of theoretical use without some sort of search engine or portal? You're pretty much limited to just typing in random URLs to see what whacky scheme the squatters have come up with. CNN.com is now the Citizen's News Network? Cah-ray-zee! (I also like how their bizarro-Yahoo is just a search box that not only brings you results from the real web when used but also kicks the fake browser bar back into the ether, to boot.)

By: Rhaomi

Rhaomi — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 00:50:06 -0800

Oh, I see now that they have a Directory button, but it won't be operational until November.

By: Pronoiac

Pronoiac — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 00:55:25 -0800

It doesn't look like an upgrade from 1995-era "Internet? What Internet?" MSN, & if you're trying to get me to move away from that, you're going to have to give me something that actually works in HotJava.

By: mosk

mosk — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 01:07:35 -0800

You folks are right. A second web is more of a Shelbyville idea...

By: stuffedspacedog

stuffedspacedog — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 01:24:30 -0800

Utterly useless!

By: clearly

clearly — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 01:39:58 -0800

I tried to register www.thescondwebblows.com but I decided the $5 would be better spent by setting a $1 bill on fire and burning a stack of 4 other $1 bills with the original flaming $1 bill.

By: PeterMcDermott

PeterMcDermott — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 01:41:17 -0800

Ah, I'm always a day late and a dollar short: "Sorry, porn.com is already taken."

By: i_am_joe's_spleen

i_am_joe's_spleen — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 01:51:43 -0800

This domain name may be availible for registration, check here! That's really credable.

By: Salvor Hardin

Salvor Hardin — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 01:52:42 -0800

I pressed F11 only to be briefly terrified that I would be stranded in the second web forever (before I realized F11 toggled fullscreen). And btw some poking around led me to notice that yahoo.com has colonized the second web (can't really link to it...), but the search engine at yahoo's second web page searches the first web, not the second web. Also it transports you back to the first web when you search. I feel like yahoo isn't really emotionally invested in this second web concept. And I guess Google was too cool for the second web - they seem to have had the corresponding google homepage removed for copyright reasons.

By: Meatbomb

Meatbomb — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 02:04:32 -0800

Hey I have a cool idea! Buy thirdweb domain name and squat inside them! Eventually the whole screen will be taken up by browser bars, and you'll be squinting trying to see the nekkid ladies crammed into three rows of pixels at www./www.thesecondweb.net/www.thirdweb.do/www.fourthweb.yes/www.fifthweb.new/www.sixthweb.yo/www.hotnekkidladiesrighthere.com

By: maxwelton

maxwelton — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 02:12:14 -0800

Wait. So it this web 3.0 or web 2.0.1 or what?

By: JHarris

JHarris — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 02:36:00 -0800

Can I pay for my secondweb domain with Flooz^tm? I feel sorry for the clueless venture capitalists who funded this. Wake me when Thesecondwebbrowser is supplanted by Shmire-shmox.

By: Kimondo

Kimondo — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 02:39:37 -0800

Spot on - web 2.0 is sooo 1995. And http://www.thesecondweb.net/ appears to be down..

By: cerulgalactus

cerulgalactus — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 03:34:02 -0800

It's down - so it IS just like Geocities.

By: the_very_hungry_caterpillar

the_very_hungry_caterpillar — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 04:02:54 -0800

wow. the second interweb didn't last long. down already. don't worry, there'll be another one along in a minute.

By: adipocere

adipocere — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 04:06:22 -0800

My new stock market strategy: find out everyone involved with this project, track all of their future activity, and short everything they do for the rest of their lives.

By: trip and a half

trip and a half — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 05:20:07 -0800

I didn't click because I haven't finished reading the first web, but I gotta know: do they have their own tubes?

By: Flunkie

Flunkie — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 05:35:08 -0800

Wait. So it this web 3.0 or web 2.0.1 or what?

Web 2.0 version 2. Ah, for the halcyon days of 2000, when I could have invested fifty dollars in this at the IPO and been a millionaire by 10:30 AM. Much more pleasant than the market today, when I have to encase that fifty dollars in lucite to avoid its scent being picked up by any roving packs of feral former investment bankers that happen to wander near my house.

By: kcds

kcds — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 05:57:16 -0800

Second web may be down, but just like Windows, SP1 will fix it and make everything wonderful and perfect forever! Until SP2 comes along.

By: Spatch

Spatch — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 06:07:58 -0800

These Second Web guys are mavericks. They don't play by the rules! They eschew conventional domain names and arbitrary ICANN standards! They're nonconformists who are gonna forge their own Internet whether you like it or not, daddy-o! Oh, who am I kidding, these guys are the kinds of Adventure Capitalists who, at this same time next month, will be pitching a brand-new Internet experience where instead of viewing web sites you "beam in the cyber web nodes."

By: autodidact

autodidact — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 06:29:35 -0800

Sweet I can build a new Pogz site!

By: baphomet

baphomet — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 06:35:59 -0800

What's this internet thing I keep hearing so much about on the telegram line?

By: Lipstick Thespian

Lipstick Thespian — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 06:44:51 -0800

Please....please.....help us! In the Second Web World, John McCain is President and it's nothing but hoop skirts and buggies! And massive, talking tanks! Keanu Reeves is Minister of Defense! No, no Madame Palin, I wasn't touching the buttons, I swear I wasn't anywhere near them! No, no, AAIIIIIIIIIIEEEEEEEEEE! end transmission

By: tadellin

tadellin — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 06:54:49 -0800

I am going to start "thesecondmetafilter.com". All posts and comments will be from conservative viewpoints, and all liberal commentors will be bashed and labeled as "secondtrolls".

By: chuckdarwin

chuckdarwin — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 07:16:33 -0800

Horrendous. What a complete joke.

By: ardgedee

ardgedee — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 07:31:08 -0800

Unless informed otherwise, I'll assume they're using 'thesecondweb.net' because 'secondweb.net' was squatted and the owner wanted too much money for it? So this is really a form of acting out, isn't it? They're bitter they didn't get the domain name they wanted, they didn't get the free-flowing IPO dollars they wanted, and they didn't even get a decent colo. I'm sure somebody at Kleiner Perkins will put them on speed dial the moment they learn about this.

By: doublesix

doublesix — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 08:03:31 -0800

Yeah, yeah, whatever everyone. Are there lolcats?

By: brundlefly

brundlefly — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 08:25:59 -0800

Well, that's dumb as a bag of hammers.

By: Artw

Artw — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 08:29:39 -0800

Third Life!

By: jon_kill

jon_kill — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 09:07:30 -0800

So much effort spent on projects that are clearly not The Way.

By: Alexandra Kitty

Alexandra Kitty — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 09:15:29 -0800

Wait. So it this web 3.0 or web 2.0.1 or what? Crisis on Infinite Webs! Webs lived! Webs died...

By: Mister_A

Mister_A — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 09:17:02 -0800

There is a lot of whitespace on this new web. In fact, that's all it is... this is suck.

By: surplus

surplus — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 12:04:49 -0800

I wanted to Google them in 2nd web but I couldn't because of a copyright problem.

By: bethechange

bethechange — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 13:35:09 -0800

The site is being moved to a faster server, so I can't see it right now. Sigh. So much for the new and improved web.

By: ersatz

ersatz — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 14:01:45 -0800

Ah, I'm always a day late and a dollar short: "Sorry, porn.com is already taken." So you got pr0n.com?

By: sycophant

sycophant — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 14:39:22 -0800

That is such an incredibly shit idea. Bordering on fraud if you ask me - sure, I'll pay $5 for a domain name no one will ever see that exist on one or only a few centralised servers... I think they are being somewhat deceptive about what exactly their site is - hoping people will pay money for a virtual address within another website.