The bottom 10: The Web's most useless sites
While locating the most useful sites on the Web, we felt it only fair to call out the some of the most useless, too. We found no shortage of sites that are poorly designed or boring, but we list here some of the sites that go that extra mile--the dazzlingly ugly, the patently offensive, and the mind-bogglingly pointless.
AOL AIM Dashboard (dashboard.aim.com): I'll admit that Dashboard already has two strikes against it just because it immediately gets right into my face every time AIM starts up, which means every time I fire up my PC. Once this lame site has your eyeballs, the site seems willing to do anything to keep them, if just for a few seconds, using eye-candy graphics and tabloidy headlines like "High School Love Triangle" and "My Nasty Texts Went to my Dad!" Strike Three.
HavenWorks (havenworks.com): If a Web-design program got sick and threw up, it might look something like this site. My uncle from Santa Cruz says the first time he saw it he had an acid flashback.
Juicy Campus (www.juicycampus.com): Juicy Campus provides a public place where college kids can engage in gossipy smear-fests against fellow students, teachers or anybody else, with complete anonymity. The tenor and intelligence level of the posts is, well, what you might expect from people who spend most of their time pulling bong hits, playing Madden 2000, beer-sliding, and vomiting up Night Train.
Zombo (www.zombo.com): A Web site? Concept art? A prank gone horribly wrong? I honestly don't know. Open the page and you will hear: "This is zombo.com. You can do anything at Zombo.com. The only limit is yourself. Anything can happen at zombo.com." Well, in fact, nothing happens at zombo.com.
Brill Publications (www.brillpublications.com): It's virtual! It's like being in the real world, except, uh, it's on the Net! One the InterWeb! Walk through the front door of Brill Publications. See the secretary. Take the elevator. Talk to Bob on the 5th floor. Wait, why am I here?
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