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September 05, 2005
shhhhhhhhh.com
I just had a brainstorm that will *definitely* make me my first million ;)
You know how the Dewey Decimal system is so easy to use? Don't you love writing down numbers that mean nothing, and using them to find what you are looking for? Aren't those little library pencils sooooo cute? Well, let's bring all of that wonderful user experience to the web by creating a library-style web directory.
Picture this: Instead of a url to get to a website, you use a dewey decimal system number -- and browse other similar numbers for pages that are also relevant. I'll go to the trouble of indexing this crazy thing we call the "information superhighway" under this system, and the world can reap the benefits.
Let's see how this will work. Here are the DDS main categories:
000 Generalities
100 Philosophy & psychology
200 Religion
300 Social sciences
400 Language
500 Natural sciences & math
600 Technology (Applied sciences)
700 The arts
800 Literature & rhetoric
900 Geography & history
Hmmm. I don't think that will quite cover it. I think we'll have to add the following categories:
1000 Gambling
1100 Porn
1200 Advertising for gambling and porn
1300 Inane blogs
1400 People arguing about useless crap
1500 People arguing about inane blog entries
Looks good. Funny, when I started this post it was meant to be a total farce. Now it kind of sounds like a good idea
Venture capitalists -- line up now. I will be accepting funding bids for shhhhhhhhh.com throughout the fall.
"shhhhhhhhh.com -- because the URLs with fewer 'h's were taken".
Posted by Mike at September 5, 2005 08:54 PM
Comments
wouldn't it be:
A000 Gambling
B000 Porn
...
?
Posted by: brentcu at September 7, 2005 09:58 PM
Yeah. As long as we're getting picky and want to throw them in the "generalites" -- I think there are subclasses of each number, and 040 to 049 are no longer used. Just thought it was funny to have new top-level categories for "the biggies". :)
Posted by: Mike at September 8, 2005 07:03 AM