The Internet has grown in girth over the past decade. Thousands of entrepreneurs have tested the waters and millions of household users have contributed to its growth. The combination of caring users and money-hungry businessmen have spawned hundreds of sites that now feature content from mundane to useful. While a portion of the information available online can give aid, most of it is meaningless garble, much like this article.
This blog entry examines a host of “How to” websites, including eHow.com, instructables.com, wikihow.com and howtodothings.com. To show just how much content online just takes up space, I’ve compiled this list: 9 kings of “How to” articles.
- To left you’ll find the pinnacle of human achievement. Six steps to a healthy elephant.
- Here is a classic. wikiHow presents eight steps to properly eating pumpkin pie. Clearly eating pie requires far more instructions then caring for the largest earth bound mammal.
- This well written piece of literature presents the guide to ghetto-ification of your BMW. Makes sure to tape “that passenger door closed.”
- The article title speaks for itself. Be sure to “take a bike.” You’ll need it.
- Only three bars of difficulty and no cash cost. This is a sure fire method to get some attention at the race track. What worries me is the fact that there’s no gender requirement.
- Ever want to install a get engine in your motorcycle? It may not be street legal, but everyone enjoys flaming up some rocket fuel on a crotch rocket. Impress your neighbors, pollute the environment and go deaf!
- Circle the 15th. We’re having a baby at 2:00 P.M. Make sure to bring your briefcase, we’ve got a meeting a 3.
- Eating has always been a perplexing task to many humans. What fork do I use? Where do I put the napkin? Are my fingers usable? If not, how do I eat the cookie?
- “Things you’ll need: Facial Tissues”
As you can see, the machine of the Internet has produced what some would call the garbage of the universe. However, as we move further into the world of Web 2.0 we learn to accept this content. Kids lighting their hair ablaze on Youtube, college humor fronting waves in fat are just as much a part of our culture as email. It is strange that while we have the ability to do so much with our Internet connection we choose to share the crap of our world instead of the highlights. However, this is just something to consider as you read up on ostrich veterinarians. Now that Google is a verb, there’s no doubt that the crap production will not peak anytime soon.